Poll of the Day > What was your favorite part of the pandemic?

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I am mad however that Walmart stopped being 24/7 made no sense I could accidently social distance at 2am in walmart

Getting paid to sit on my ass and do literally absolutely nothing was pretty great.

Driving cross country and staying at hotels where I was one of only 2-3 guests. It lasted until I got to California where the hotels were crammed full of homeless people.

The open roads were nice!!

Being able to work from home.

The memes

Sufferedphoenix posted...

I am mad however that Walmart stopped being 24/7 made no sense I could accidently social distance at 2am in walmart

The mandatory reduction in hours for essential services is one thing that always struck me as being counterintuitive. If it's essential, people are going to be shopping there regardless of what the hours are, so reducing the hours means you end up with the same number of total customers showing up within a smaller time window. That increases density and the risk of transmission, exactly the opposite of what the goal was. I'm sure there were further considerations like being able to reduce the number of overlapping shifts for employees and the impacts it had on traffic timing, and increasing the extent to which people were able to take advantage of the disinfecting effects of the sun, plus maybe secondary concerns like overall reductions in traffic increasing the risk that people are victimized by street crime (already an elevated risk for late-night shopping, but with fewer people overall that means even fewer late-night shoppers), but at face value it never really made sense to me.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out pretty much when lockdowns started, so at least I had a cool new game to play.

also since I couldn't get a haircut, and I was balding anyway, I decided to shave my head and see how that goes. I'm still doing that now.

one more thing, I met the girl who is now my fianc in October 2020. not sure if that's specifically a pandemic thing, but it happened.

adjl posted...

The mandatory reduction in hours for essential services is one thing that always struck me as being counterintuitive. If it's essential, people are going to be shopping there regardless of what the hours are, so reducing the hours means you end up with the same number of total customers showing up within a smaller time window. That increases density and the risk of transmission, exactly the opposite of what the goal was. I'm sure there were further considerations like being able to reduce the number of overlapping shifts for employees and the impacts it had on traffic timing, and increasing the extent to which people were able to take advantage of the disinfecting effects of the sun, plus maybe secondary concerns like overall reductions in traffic increasing the risk that people are victimized by street crime (already an elevated risk for late-night shopping, but with fewer people overall that means even fewer late-night shoppers), but at face value it never really made sense to me.

It was just am excuse. They have rolled back every other covid policy but that

Sufferedphoenix posted...

It was just am excuse. They have rolled back every other covid policy but that

Yeah this really. It's disappointing, especially in a place like Las Vegas, but evidently it's not profitable to keep a restaurant open overnight when there are only a dozen patrons from 1AM-9AM, all the while you still have to pay a full crew of chefs, waiters, hosts, bussers, etc.

Probably the same with Walmart. Wasn't profitable to service the dozen people who came in overnight.

Cupcake2006 posted...

Yeah this really. It's disappointing, especially in a place like Las Vegas, but evidently it's not profitable to keep a restaurant open overnight when there are only a dozen patrons from 1AM-9AM, all the while you still have to pay a full crew of chefs, waiters, hosts, bussers, etc.

Probably the same with Walmart. Wasn't profitable to service the dozen people who came in overnight.

This one literally still has over night stocked. They'd just need one extra person to overlook self check out.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

It was just am excuse. They have rolled back every other covid policy but that

Companies have stuck with ditching 24-hour service, yeah, and it makes sense because those periods generally don't generate enough business to cover the costs of staffing them, but it was also an official government policy to stop offering 24-hour service (at least around here). Sticking with it is the business' choice, but I'm just not sure why it was part of the Covid restrictions initially.

adjl posted...

Companies have stuck with ditching 24-hour service, yeah, and it makes sense because those periods generally don't generate enough business to cover the costs of staffing them, but it was also an official government policy to stop offering 24-hour service (at least around here). Sticking with it is the business' choice, but I'm just not sure why it was part of the Covid restrictions initially.

Obviously so the corporation makes more money

I work third shift. So it just sucks I tend to sleep in on my off day (I usually only get one at a time) so now I gotta go shopping after work rather than go home crash then do it after i wake up on said off day

adjl posted...

I'm just not sure why it was part of the Covid restrictions initially.

Agreed. "Hey we want fewer people cramped together, so let's funnel the same number of people into a smaller number of available hours"

Sufferedphoenix posted...

Obviously so the corporation makes more money

Yeah this. End of the day, it's always this.

I went on my longest streak of not getting a cold, flu or a vomit bug ever. That was pretty rad.

The death of the handshake. I still refuse to shake people's hands. I don't care what they think. It's gross and it's always been gross.

Whargarble posted...

The death of the handshake. I still refuse to shake people's hands. I don't care what they think. It's gross and it's always been gross.

I was kinda sad to see that we didn't adopt this to replace it-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QTHfrXHo9M&pp=ygUYZGVtb2xpdGlvbiBtYW4gaGFuZHNoYWtl

I had no favorite part of the pandemic because in the very beginning people lost their lives who shouldn't have had we had a leader in the WH who did their due diligence and I also lost friends and relatives to the pandemic so for me nothing good came fro that time.

Whargarble posted...

The death of the handshake. I still refuse to shake people's hands. I don't care what they think. It's gross and it's always been gross.

Past two jobs I've had everyone fist bumps. Like this one my first day on the job thr supervisor does a fist bump when introducing himself.

During covid at the prison people bumped elbows as a greeting or Farwell.

When it was over