Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Are the early reopening just to remove businesses from relief eligibility?

 

Fake brews

 

I've seen that theory. Who knows? If states start allowing some businesses to open, does that mean all people in that state on unemployment lose the extra $600? These are questions worth asking.

 

The reopening means those small businesses will not be able to deal with their most pressing issue, negotiating rent relief from landlords. Unemployed is unemployed. Workers who were let go have to be rehired, which will of necessity be a much slower process than being let go, so they'll keep eligibility for the program. Odds are many of these Georgia businesses who do reopen will do so to go out of business.

 

Another good argument on behalf of a rent holiday and a debt forgiveness jubilee.

We've done almost everything wrong so far, and seem determined to continue doing so.

 

I'd go to the gym ... if they provided everyone in the facility with their own bottle of disinfectant spray to carry along with them to wipe down equipment before and after use.

I'd go to the bar ... if the seats were spread at least six feet apart. You can still have social interaction without sitting right on top of each other.

 

Alas, you can't stay six feet away from the bartender at all times. Also, there's been a medical paper on a restaurant in Seoul where one asymptomatic person with virus spread it to 10 other people, some of whom were further away than six feet, because of the vent direction of the air conditioner.

 

"Millions of people with this virus show only mild symptoms, such as wasting hours on the internet following insane threads on Bill Gates."

A second virus seems to be making people stupid | Moran

 

Not to mention there are dozens of studies indicating the 6-feet-rule is nonsense anyway. Let's also not forget that...particularly in a gym, where people are breathing hard.

This animation shows how far your sneeze can actually travel

 

That is the real problem. It's going to take time to see the consequences of opening up too soon, time for the protests to ramp up in the states that don't open up.

 

Inky raised a very good point. It's going to make it harder and harder for people who are smart enough to stay home and be safe to make that choice.