Current Events > My local gym, movie theater & a few bars near me are shutting down for good.

(+) Yeah! (+)

I can sympathize with the shutdown, however, it will sure suck ass when this is all over to come back to everything being closed that I once enjoyed doing. My state and our federal government are useless.

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For the cure...

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there's no way someone will ever be able to open them back up again

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Guerrilla Soldier posted...

there's no way someone will ever be able to open them back up again

Huh

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"but if we can save just one life..." while crushing the livelihoods of hundreds

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EvalAngell posted...

"but if we can save just one life..." while crushing the livelihoods of hundreds

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1258759085421461505

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Oh boo hoo you can't go to the damn gym and movies for a short time being boo hoo your life is ruined!

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monkmith posted...

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1258759085421461505

restaurants in Georgia are literally packed full and booked up for weeks but OK. A restaurant in Colorado opened its doors for Mother's Day brunch and had it's highest turnout EVER. But yeah people are scared. Sure.

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EvalAngell posted...

restaurants in Georgia are literally packed full and booked up for weeks but OK.

learn to read...

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monkmith posted...

learn to read...

read a garbage tweet? I did.

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ncsonic posted...

Oh boo hoo you can't go to the damn gym and movies for a short time being boo hoo your life is ruined!

??? I think closed for good is a little longer than, "a short time" lol

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EvalAngell posted...

restaurants in Georgia are literally packed full and booked up for weeks but OK. A restaurant in Colorado opened its doors for Mother's Day brunch and had it's highest turnout EVER. But yeah people are scared. Sure.

Yeah, this logic is asinine (in the tweet, not yours). Even if business is down 50%, that's 50% more business than you had sitting at home doing fuck all for months at a time.

Also, when people realize that you don't have to step over millions of bodies in the streets to get to your local dining establishment, they'll quickly follow suit.

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monkmith posted...

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1258759085421461505

Rely on the government to bail out all those small business just like they did countless times for many giant corporations, oh wait.......

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monkmith posted...

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1258759085421461505

Where does this Biden Bro get that demand for normalcy will be so low? Yikes

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I get it sucks, but for you, this is a rude awakening to the new normal. There aren't really going to be gyms, theaters etc to go to in the new normal. I'd start getting more acquainted with the inside of your home if you know what's good for you.

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Ultima Dragon posted...

Yeah, this logic is asinine (in the tweet, not yours). Even if business is down 50%, that's 50% more business than you had sitting at home doing fuck all for months at a time.

But is that 50% enough to pay for your employees' wages? Ingredients for the food? Water and electricity?

Almost every local restaurant here has the option to open their doors but at severely reduced capacity so they're all continuing to do takeout and delivery only because it's the only way they can afford to stay open

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

But is that 50% enough to pay for your employees' wages? Ingredients for the food? Water and electricity?

Almost every local restaurant here has the option to open their doors but at severely reduced capacity so they're all continuing to do takeout and delivery only because it's the only way they can afford to stay open

50 will pay for more than 0


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Ultima Dragon posted...

Yeah, this logic is asinine (in the tweet, not yours). Even if business is down 50%, that's 50% more business than you had sitting at home doing fuck all for months at a time.

Also, when people realize that you don't have to step over millions of bodies in the streets to get to your local dining establishment, they'll quickly follow suit.

I mean a lot of places cant even break even at 50% or less business. Some places might be better off shutdown.

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EvalAngell posted...

restaurants in Georgia are literally packed full and booked up for weeks but OK. A restaurant in Colorado opened its doors for Mother's Day brunch and had it's highest turnout EVER. But yeah people are scared. Sure.

Are all businesses open and operating normally though? Select locations being booked because they're open at this specific time while others aren't doesn't represent what will happen to business as a result if the virus spreads and many more get sick and other businesses stay closed.

We'd also need numbers to know how many opened back up, otherwise these few crowded businesses are getting all of the business that wants to go out but that'd only matter if it's put in perspective to previous business totals. Otherwise it's just showing people that have been waiting to go out all at once to these specific locations and possibly other businesses that are all closed going to these locations because they're the only ones open. I'm not saying that isn't representative of something, but it doesn't really show the whole picture.

To put it more simply, if 100 businesses closed due to the virus and 10 places opened back up before everyone else, all the people from those 100 businesses that wanted to go out would be funneled into those 10 businesses that are open. That would make the open places look very busy but might only represent 10% of normal business in that industry. It would all depend on the capacity of the businesses that are open and the total business they're doing versus what all businesses in that industry were doing shortly before the pandemic.

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Hope everyone loves Amazon and Walmart, they're all that will be left when this is over.

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NEETs: "This is great. I'm now a hero for never leaving home. Don't take this away from me."

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Nobody in this topic discussing the elephants in the room

multi-millionaires, billionaires, and corporations
A failed economic system

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