dabvu2498 (11-15-2020),Kinsm (11-15-2020),Revering4Blue (11-15-2020)
I wrote out an entire response to some of the above, but I've deleted it. Some of you are just exhausting. It's not elitism, it's not a hoax. It's a deadly virus that isn't as deadly as it was 9 months ago because of science. But I still don't want to catch it and I miss my routine, my friends, my family and my old life.
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Neither is McDonalds or Taco Bell, but people made them essential because they don't like to cook their own food and they know there are plenty of poor people that were working under the table anyway that will continue making it for them, and people can even pretend they did a study and found out its safe for them so they can feel good about it. Besides, a bar is pretty essential to the family that has its life work and savings invested in it. Or, we can just blame them for having a terrible business plan and not having a years savings in the bank.
How about this? Send out agents from the liquor commission to shut down the places you are complaining about. They could clean this up in one night by yanking their licenses for a month. There are plenty of places doing the right thing, and shouldn't be punished because of Cleveland.
Last edited by dougdirt; 11-15-2020 at 11:19 AM. Reason: Clarification
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dabvu2498 (11-15-2020)
Yeah, plenty of places it’s totally fine. That’s why it’s blowing up in all 50 states and especially in rural areas. Right.
As for your other stuff: again, if we had a government that actually attempted to help people we would not have to worry about people keeping their bars open. If we are going to say “it’s just too much money!” Let’s just continue ignoring the trillions we spend on the military budget to “protect American citizens.”
Last edited by RedTeamGo!; 11-15-2020 at 11:37 AM.
What would you say.....ya do here?
You are being absurd. There are not tens of millions of people who can't cook at home. Besides, many people who were ordering out had the full capability of making food at home if they wanted to.
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No, it's blowing up because of private gatherings where there are no masks or social distancing.
Between seniors, the homeless, people who live without kitchens (which is a large number is cities) there are tens of millions of people who need restaurants open.
It’s funny, you want restauarants that serve food closed, but bars open. I mean, anyone who can go to a bar, can make a drink at home. Why aren’t you screaming at them to stay home? (Answer: you don’t like eating out, but you like drinking out).
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Kinsm (11-15-2020)
You are just making up facts, as usual.
And you don't know anything about me. I don't care about drinking out at all. You know why I even go out at all? For live music 90% of the time, and baseball or football the other times. I have literally hundreds of bottles of wine at home, but you know what I drink when I go out? A coors light, because it doesn't make me fat and it's an easy sipping beer because I honestly don't even like beer. If I do get wine, it will be in a retail place that has a patio with music, and we'll sit outside and drink a bottle.
And one other thing- I never said that I want restaurants that serve food closed. Not sure where you even got that. In fact, in Ohio, you can't even have a bar that doesn't have food too.
I think restaurants and bars should both be open, and where I live most are. They were open when our number of cases per day were miniscule, and they're open now. Perhaps the reins need to get pulled back on them a bit (more limitations on capacity as we head into the winter months and cases are spiking), but I don't think there's much cause and effect between open bars and restaurants and number of cases.
Right now, indoor bad, takeout/delivery good. There's a finite amount of indoor gathering we can sustain at this moment. Markets and certain types of retail (e.g hardware) need to be on that list. Schools should be too. If you can get and keep your schools open without seeing community spread rise, then I'm all for expanding the list of what we can sustain. Yet that's the cart, not the horse.
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