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Ohio announces indefinite closure of bars and restaurants (9pm, 3/15)
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I'm very kind with my booze. I'm sharing booze and peanuts at the moment.
I dunno, I prefer honesty. I think all these schools saying they are closing for two weeks when we all know they are going to have to extend that are asking for trouble down the road. Better to be straightforward than to make promises you can't keep.
It feels inevitable, and I expect the harder hit states like Washington, New York, Massachusetts, California and Colorado to follow suit soon.
Florida feels likely to hold out.
I think this is a good idea. But it should be accompanied by some application for restaurant and bar owners to receive financial relief. Servers make sub-minimum wage. They make a living off of tips. Those tips are gone now. Many people are going to suffer with this change.
That's why I don't get some of the coldness here. These people are going to lose a ton.
This is great to prevent the virus from spreading, but how is there no stimulus attatched for all the money these bars and restaurants are going to be losing. Most of these aren't multimillion dollar chains and I'm sure many are already on a "paycheck to paycheck" scenario.
FYI
part of the reason is,
ST PATRICKS DAY
is tuesday.
we are trying to prevent the mass gathering of people
part of the reason is,
ST PATRICKS DAY
is tuesday.
we are trying to prevent the mass gathering of people
At this point it will be extremely rare if someone DOESN'T suffer because of this virus. Every industry is affected and it dominoes in other industries.
I just don't think anybody is being particularly "cold" to the suffering of bars and restaurants. It's gonna fucking suck for those who can't make money...just like all of the rest of us. We've had threads about contributing to independent artists paypals, etc. WHich is fine if you have a surplus, but every single industry could use a thread like that. Most us will not be in a position to help because we're hurting ourselves.
Illinois announced it as well along with Ohio. I assume other states will start to follow suit shortly.
The economic inpact on this will be HUGE.
I can see quite a few restaurants closing as they wont be able to survive with no or minimal income while this crisis goes on.
Im in auto sales, and we are staying abkve water... but I know that business is slower. People are VERY reluctant right now to do business.
I can see quite a few restaurants closing as they wont be able to survive with no or minimal income while this crisis goes on.
Im in auto sales, and we are staying abkve water... but I know that business is slower. People are VERY reluctant right now to do business.
The state is opening up no interest loans for impacted small businesses iirc
Unemployment benefits are being extended w/o a wait period
Exactly.
Even before this my friends who were theater performers and musicians got fucked by the crowd regulations that were put into place.
It sucks for almost everyone. The only people that are truly secure right now are medical professionals and I don't know what good that does if everyone else isn't.
Because we elected a reality tv show celebrity as President. It's up to states to take care of this themselves.
I hope this doesn't happen where I live for the sake of my job, but that's me being selfish. :( Really hope this virus ends soon.
I find Florida holding out borderline stupid for their political party. State full of Republican retirees during election year.
VRChat has plenty of bars and clubs where people get drunk, including bartenders that roleplay the whole ordeal. You don't need a headset to play.
We're lying to ourselves with these short two to three week timetables, just to keep the public from immediately panicking. Is that really the best thing to do? You basically want to placate those who can't put 2 and 2 together themselves, until the time frame gets extended from a few weeks to a few months, then to indefinite.
It's time to start being real, not on some apocalypse stuff, but just on the fact that the social distancing is not going to end any time soon, and is going to extend to more social gatherings, including workplaces.
The media is already used to mislead and deceive the public, though the dissemination of faulty information. Why encourage that? Hope is a false construct when it comes to holding together society, it won't work.
Hope is the only thing keeping places like Italy together right now. Unless you think living in a dystopia is some kind of holiday?
No, keeping the virus from sweeping through society, establishing well laid plans, will hold us together.
Lying to the public about this being a short term thing accomplishes nothing. When the time tables come and go again and again, what does that do to your hope? When the people realize they can't trust what they are being told? Civility will fall apart.
Better to be up front so people can steel themselves.
Dammm.. I currently work in a restaurant (Cali) and we are just so curious on if we going to shut down or not. We have a bar too yet it was pretty packed last night and this morning for brunch too.
This shit is making UBI's look like a not-so-ridiculous idea. If we could just coast the next six months we'd be fine but rent, utilities and food are going to bankrupt many families throughout this ordeal. What the hell are we doing to do?
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