It's not the masks and social distancing I have an issue with. It's the restrictions and quarantine requirements. For the record, I thought the quarantine that Desantis put in place was just as illegal and stupid as the ones in place now by the northeast states. It isn't very likely that a given individual is infected even if they've been to the hottest spot in a hot spot.
Restaurants around me, especially those who cater to a younger demographic are quite busy now and filling to the reduced capacity and having waits on the weekend.
So if there is good mask and distancing there is no need for quarantines and restrictions
There is absolutely nothing “illegal” about quarantines executed through proper channels for public Health. Every country on earth does the same thing.
I have.
Disagree
Same stupid stuff...there is no “vulnerable” and “non-vulnerable” because of asymptomatic spread.
Reserve the right to choose!
But that isn’t a right...that’s the B of it.
John Locke...go get sum freedom.
It’s never up to a business how many people they can serve at a time. There is always a max capacity in a restaurant or theatre. That is based on safety.
Not the same thing...capacity is another argument from the ability to serve.
....or there‘s a worldwide pandemic and people in large numbers just aren‘t willing to spend large amounts of time in crowded public places while cases surge. The restaurant industry isn’t being helped by widespread community spread. It’s way too oversimplified to assume there’s only 2 options, restrictions and no restrictions and the restriction option protects people at the expense of the economy while the no restrictions option protects the economy at the expense of health. There’s a middle ground. For example, keep bars closed, help out bar owners. Keep indoor, large group venues closed and help out those whose business is adversely impacted. The rest of the economy could be open. There are some good examples around the world of places where they have gotten the virus under control and the economy is way more open and doing way better than here. New Zealand being the most extreme example. They had several very long runs with great economic success.
Read what I was replying to before you reply with something irrelevant to the discussion.
I did and that’s why I said it
Salt Lake City hospitals are warning about rationing ICU care. And a large concern is not having enough nurses and doctors. This article also explains why seeing things like "only 75% ICU beds are occupied" is misleading on how many spaces are actually remaining, and how opening a field hospital can only help so much.
Simply not true. I know you are going to believe what you want, but in areas this summer that had much lower case counts it was actually more possible to do some contact tracing in an effective manner and there was absolutely a connection to travel to hot spots. One county near me in PA was able to trace 50% of their new cases in a week to out of state travel primarily to Myrtle Beach, FL and TX. This was when bars in PA were still closed and young people were grabbing cheap flights to go South to party. Whether you choose to believe it or not it absolutely was happening.
Why so hostile? I'm glad you have faith in world leaders somebody needs too.