California Governor Closes All Bars, Cuts Restaurant Capacities to Stop Coronavirus

In a press conference held on Sunday afternoon, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that all restaurants will have their occupancy levels cut in half and all bars will be closed to stop the coronavirus spread.

Newsom made the first announcement that all bars, night clubs, wineries and brew pubs are non-essential locations and will shut down. The Governor then stated that restaurants are a more “nuanced” issue and that the state doesn’t believe they require a total closure at this time. However, all restaurants’ occupancy levels will be cut in half, and patrons will be required to socially distance themselves in dining areas.

This message comes days after the governor banned all gatherings in California over 250 people. That being said, the governor did not address the closing of movie theaters in this announcement.

During the conference, Newsom said that 335 people have tested positive for coronavirus in California. The new tally of positive tests marks a 14 percent increase from yesterday. There have been six deaths from the virus in the state, with the sixth taking place in San Mateo county, where 32 cases have been recorded.

The announcement comes two days after President Trump declared a national state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic and the U.S. travel ban was extended to include the U.K. and Ireland. The North American box office took a brutal hit this weekend after several theater chains limited their capacity to allow for social distancing. Overall, the box office hit a 22-year low point.

On Saturday, France also took precautions to limit the spread of coronavirus. The country closed all movie theaters, restaurants and non-essential stores. Places like pharmacies, grocery stores, gas stations, banks and newspaper stands still remain open.

I expect many non-chain restaurants will end up closing for good and chain locations will carefully evaluate all their locations and close under-performing ones.

Probably. I posted on another thread that many restaurantsd should make it if they stay open for take-home, all they need is 2-3 cooks and a cashier. But they'll be crazy understaffed when everyone reopens, since all their waiters/hostesses/busboys/dishwashers will likely be gone.

But, thinking about it more, no alcohol sales on take-home, which is generally a big portion of restaurant profit, more high-margin than even a salad. Yup, unless these stupid States let them reopen in a week, a lot of them will be gone permanently. If it even takes a week.

I recall reading somewhere it is six feet. Trying to find the source online for the six feet.

Hm, I didn't see anything specific on a quick skim through those links, but I'll take it.

So most restaurants will just have to block off every other table. Which matches some State's new limits on half-capacity. Hm. How does this work for seating new arrivals, do they have to weave through tables to avoid everyone already seated by six feet? Do waiters have to drop off your food at the next table, then you grab your plate after they walk away? Do people have to park every other spot, just in case your family happens to leave at the same time as the other one?

you ready for tomorrow. Here it comes - Gonna make last monday look like a cake - two weeks in a row - I'm telling you whats going to happen - you could've made money. Why is it, or does it stay ridiculous when the context highly suggests it will happen. Don't at some point you become ridiculous? I'm not trying to be my usual ahole self but look around. Is there a panic - absolutely, are the terrible people in the press trying to use it to take out our champion? You know it!

I'm not an expert at epidemiology but I do make a lot of computer models and simulations and coincidentally a book I bought to model market phenomena, and societal behavior has a meaty chapter on epidemics. I've spent the last two days digesting that and writing some codes.

My conclusions, and I reserve the right to change these as I'm still learning and thinking.

Corna virus are nasty - this one did a three mamel jump or can (bat, human, dog) I think thats unusual but not sure researching...
We are on what is called in epidemiology the knifes edge where small changes in the contact network and behaviour will/can determine if this pathogen dies of in a finite number of waves or can make in roads into the global population enough to have an very very long lifecycle for all effective purposes infinite - this is why better hygeine coupled with eliminiting the number of people you come in contact with lops off huge branches of the social network and the pathogen burns out without any new hosts to infect
The chinese are lying about it - sure they lie about everything but they lying and running the crematoriums at fully capacity concurrently and that ain't good
Corna virusus seem to be a bit like velcrow or those thistle type plants that get on your socks sometimes out in a field or hiking. They can live on many of the surfaces that make up our modern life for several days
There seems to be an oscillatory phenomena that occurs when concurrent infections get synchronized especially for virus or diseases which you can get again or develop only a temporary immunity (yeah that a thing)... Honestly this part I'm still working on understanding this part and I'm tired
It seems to me and I apologize if I'm not getting your sentiment correct but I would suggest You're looking at an epidemic (weak or strong I don't know yet but it looks strong) through a political lens. I know all the bs fake news doesn't make easy to even what the basic facts are. Thats why I'm trying to now figure out for myself using the theories one would hope these experts would be familiar with.
At this point - the concern seems justified and by and large everyone is doing exactly the right thing. That being said Tomorrow is going to be a difficult day, dump around 12:30 -1 EST we can't get in at the bell us small fries
Be well

Testing the pliancy of the People to see if the fear tactics are working...

Kind of ironic - we know that the Deep State and others use fear as a way to steer and control the people - we had the commie/nuke war threat until the Berlin Wall came down then it wasn’t viable anymore and up pops Globull Warming, which has many in fear that we’re gonna destroy the Earth even as we do less harm than past generations and none of the data actually supports anything but the earth’s climate and Mother Nature do not now, and never did have a “balance” and even if they did, we have no idea of how to maintain one or ‘fix’ things...all our efforts end up causing more harm....the coronavirus scare is no different - the panic-induced knee-jerking will cause more harm than the virus.
Folks who would be up in arms if the government decided to tell them they could not move freely are now begging that same government to lock them, and everyone else, down....I’d wager if, after doing that, the story ‘evolved” they would also go meekly to barb-wire surrounded camps/tent cities because the “latest info” said that’s the only way to stop it.
Even though we know that they use fear to guide and control us, so many can’t see it through the red haze of insane panic....they not only welcome the government controls, they beg for them...

And the fear mongers will try to leverage it...

Reminds me of a saying, by Ben Franklin, that many FReepers, who are now acting insane, used to showcase:

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

“IMHO, when they get the desired result of to hurt the economy just enough then the COVID crisis will piratically end over night with a new economic crisis which they will blame Trump for.”

I think so too. The news media is destroying the U.S. economy (destroying the U.S) just to destroy one man Trump in the election.

They say 70 U.S. deaths were due to the corona virus. Compare that the flu 4000 per week were dying in 2018 because of the flu in 2018(And the media nor anyone said anything about that).

What do people don't understand context and math? 3 million people die in the USA every year, 80,000 in the USA in the 2018 flu.

Can't believe people are allowing the news media and government to makes us prisoners in our houses that we can't leave. Who is going to stock groceries etc? People are don't see the news media's goal is to destroy Trump and it has always been that.

A depression will really kill many millions of people worldwide and in the USA.

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