Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Are you ready for a restaurant world where you are served by a waiter wearing mask and gloves?
Hospitality as we know it will be vastly different; social spaces are already planning for the change • the Hi-lo
Likewise, Sterling Steffen, co-owner of Trademark Brewing on Anaheim Street, says he has no idea what his brewery will look like in a post-coronavirus world.

“We’ve talked about how service will change, for sure,” he said. “That’s one thing about our taproom that we consider an advantage: we simply have the space to still have a lot of patrons with plenty of personal space. But I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up removing a few stools from the bar and pushing tables apart even further.”

Some may think social spaces will return in exactly the same way and they may feel comfortable going to those spaces. But, as we enter another month of shelter-in-place orders, there will be a significant portion of people whose anxiety will be so high that most restaurants, bars and entertainment spaces won’t be able to ignore it.

Recently, Gov. Gavin Newsom said much the same thing, advising people they should expect their waiters to wear gloves and masks when dine-in options reopen.

 

During the great Chinese famine, instead of feeding the people, Chinese politicos used to give the grain to the government - where it would not be used - as an illusion that it was producing more grain than it was to fit Mao's goals of becoming an agricultural superpower. 45 million people died.

But, by all means, let's quibble over the nature of the PR campaigns put forth by authoritarian governments to make some minor point about what you think I...don't know...about China.

 

Gov. Murphy expects NJ to be mostly in lockdown for a few more months, so

Duh, there are many social media photos of bars and restaurants and what they are doing to re-open.

 

You do realize I'm not quibbling over what China is or is not doing nor am I buying into any propaganda. I'm more giving you crap for calling China both an extreme right wing government and an extreme left wing government and pretending like it is the same thing. It's sort of like saying the Green Party and the Republican Party are no different.

 

Is there sales tax on it?

 

I said it's a fascist government. Which, it is. To suggest otherwise is like saying the most important identifier about crooked cop is that he's a cop before he's a crook. (In fact, cops and their apologists do this far too often.)

 

Larry David was already on this at his spite store, Latte Larry's.