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Old 04-27-2021, 10:21 AM
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Everything as in what people need everyday is open. Yea there’s still capacity issues but they’re open. You can go watch a game even, you got to admit that’s progress for CA

Nice how you get to define what people need.

Then again that’s been the problem with your type for decades.


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Nice how you get to define what people need.

Then again that’s been the problem with your type for decades.


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Hate to shatter your views but the virus has never been about you. You see what’s going on in India, ask them if they care about capacity issues at their local Aquarium
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Old 04-27-2021, 10:30 AM
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Hate to shatter your views but the virus has never been about you. You see what’s going on in India, ask them if they care about capacity issues at their local Aquarium
I cannot believe I have to point this out, but the capacity issues are killing the businesses. Just like you cannot survive as an airline flying around with only 10% of your planes full, businesses are paying the same rent on buildings and tables and trying to keep the same people employed, but only serving a fraction of the paying customers. So yes, because it doesn't affect you personally you don't see the impact of the capacity restrictions - but then again, it is not about you.
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I cannot believe I have to point this out, but the capacity issues are killing the businesses. Just like you cannot survive as an airline flying around with only 10% of your planes full, businesses are paying the same rent on buildings and tables and trying to keep the same people employed, but only serving a fraction of the paying customers. So yes, because it doesn't affect you personally you don't see the impact of the capacity restrictions - but then again, it is not about you.
Government stimulus did keep the non essential business on life support but there’s also the issue of the tiny minor thing that is the global deadly pandemic. You can have it open all day, people won’t come if they’re too afraid of catching the virus. The focus shouldn’t be on how to get people out again, it’s to focus on keeping the rates low. Only then will people go out and spend at these businesses. I know you don’t believe this concept and you and your friends and neighbors wanted to take on the rona head on but the majority do not. High cases directly has an effect on these businesses.
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Government stimulus did keep the non essential business on life support but there’s also the issue of the tiny minor thing that is the global deadly pandemic. You can have it open all day, people won’t come if they’re too afraid of catching the virus.
If people are staying home anyways because they’re scared of the virus, why not just lift all restrictions now?

You know this viewpoint is complete BS. I live in a beach town in south FL. Spring Break was insane down here because things were open and people had somewhere to go.
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If people are staying home anyways because they’re scared of the virus, why not just lift all restrictions now?

You know this viewpoint is complete BS. I live in a beach town in south FL. Spring Break was insane down here because things were open and people had somewhere to go.
Well in places like Sweden and Japan when cases were high, the stores and streets were almost empty even though restrictions were basically just recommendations. I’m pretty sure fundamentally you can’t have an economy with a pandemic raging, there needs to be confidence from the communities that at least there’s some control over it including use of health mandates.
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Well in places like Sweden and Japan when cases were high, the stores and streets were almost empty even though restrictions were basically just recommendations. I’m pretty sure fundamentally you can’t have an economy with a pandemic raging, there needs to be confidence from the communities that at least there’s some control over it including use of health mandates.
This entire thread is about the US. I don’t care what happened in Japan or Sweden and that’s not what this discussion was about.

The people of THIS country are DONE with these theatrical mandates. Vaccines are open season in the majority of the country. Those who got the poke are sick of being told ‘just a bit longer’ ad nauseam. The ‘leadership’ has been and continues to be a joke. The head of the CDC was on national television crying three weeks ago because she was ‘scared.’ Their credibility dwindles every day.

If you and your people want to stay in your bomb shelter forever so be it. I don’t care and I never have. You’re not stealing another year of my life.
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Well said, sir.
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Well in places like Sweden and Japan when cases were high, the stores and streets were almost empty even though restrictions were basically just recommendations. I’m pretty sure fundamentally you can’t have an economy with a pandemic raging, there needs to be confidence from the communities that at least there’s some control over it including use of health mandates.
It’s still an historically minor plague. The Black Death killed over 25% of the English population, which created an entirely new economy, transferred wealth from the rich to the poor as farm labor turned scarce; developed estate law that existed to this day. The Justinian plague of the 6th century, killed similar percentages, weakened both the Persian and eastern Roman Empires and led to the rise of Islam. European diseases brought to America wiped out the native population. This “pandemic” has a population fatality rate of 0.163%. Not exactly shattering the civilization.
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This entire thread is about the US. I don’t care what happened in Japan or Sweden and that’s not what this discussion was about.

The people of THIS country are DONE with these theatrical mandates. Vaccines are open season in the majority of the country. Those who got the poke are sick of being told ‘just a bit longer’ ad nauseam. The ‘leadership’ has been and continues to be a joke. The head of the CDC was on national television crying three weeks ago because she was ‘scared.’ Their credibility dwindles every day.

If you and your people want to stay in your bomb shelter forever so be it. I don’t care and I never have. You’re not stealing another year of my life.
Exactly. Anyone that wants to be vaccinated has been. Everyone else doesn’t care anyway. Let’s get on with it. In FL everything is open but I’m now an anti masker. The stupid mask requirements need do go away yesterday. I forgot one at home and had to buy one to go in an auto parts store the other day. I’m done!!
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