[Myrddin]

I'm going to ignore the debit card topic. My personal experience is working 70 hour weeks. My wife works 4 X 10 hour shifts. Night shift. We see each other about 2 hours each day. That is for dinner. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, we did that at Applebee's, Texas Roadhouse, Chili's, locally owned restaurants. Places that employ lots of minimum wage staff scraping out a living waiting tables and cooking food. It is good for the local economy and gives my wife and me a break from our hard charging work schedule.

That's not happening now. We're still working the same hours, but now we just cook dinner while dodging the 8 dogs who want to see us. We eat, wash dishes and resume work. The restaurants are closed down. A few have restricted menu take out. The Applebee's manager will do take out until the food stock in the building is gone, then will shut it down. The grocery shopping we would do after dinner isn't happening now.

I certainly don't live a luxury life style. The servers and businesses that I used to be able to support in exchange for an hour away from the work grind are going to be in tough shape. I don't subscribe to handing out cash just to prop up the economy. That money doesn't grown on trees. It is being stolen from our bank accounts by debasement of the currency.

[9YearLurker]

Agreed.

[BobL]

“...while dodging the 8 dogs who want to see us.”

Something tells me it wasn’t only time constraints that had you guys go out to eat often.