I do wonder how many restaurants will survive. At some places we go to, the tables are squeezed in,and they are very busy on a Saturday night. I bet that they cannot be profitable if they could only have 50% of tables full on that Saturday night, due to imposed social distance restrictions.
You talk about yourself in third person?
If SF keeps this up for too long, the companies and people pouring money into the place will eventually leave. The place is even less fun without the bars and theaters and restaurants. Might as well take your finance company or your internet startup somewhere else. Real estate values will drop, landlords will belly up.
No more other people’s money, unless they suck hard from the Federal teat. Is that the plan?
It’s a COUP...that’s what it is
We are seeing good numbers now regardless of which camp you are in. However, I think Trump is still in a little bit of a catch-22.
The experts are not as optimistic as we are because they are not giving great weight to the anecdotal information about effective treatments or that many more people carry the virus than what we think. Therefore, they are worried about the almost certain fact that we will have spot fires throughout the country when we open it back up. That is guaranteed.
The media is firmly in the camp of the “experts” and they will blame Trump or any governor for every death that will inevitably occur. The experts will not recommend opening back up as if it were up to them I am confident we would be permanently quarantined until there is a “vaccine.”
Trump wants to open back up and has expressed optimism, just as we have, over the fact that we appear to have some effective treatment regimes. He is understandably trying to split the baby with the “phased reopening” plan where we shelter those most vulnerable and get the rest of us back to work with “precautions.”
The lack of widespread testing is really harming the Trump plan. The partisanship and media hatred is really going to harm the Trump plan because they are so devoted to gloom porn and when they can lay it at his feet they will be obsessed with it.
I don’t envy him and hope he will follow his instincts. We will never satisfy the “experts” he has surrounded himself with and he sure as hell will never satisfy the media or the partisan democrats who will seek every advantage from this crisis as they do everything else.
That is where we are at as I see it. I do like that he is trying to put this decision back on the governors for each respective state where it belongs. I am also confident that many more people are carrying anti-bodies now than before and frankly I will feel relieved if I do when I am tested. Having a core group of working Americans with the antibodies would be a great place to start.
Given the fog of war with this thing I think he has done a good job overall. In a few months we will be in a better position to grade the response, but I think most Americans understand his decisions were made on the best data possible.
One thing that has gone unremarked that I am certain of.... Trump was brilliant to have the daily pressers. There is now a public record from the health experts on what they were telling the President in person so that will make it much harder for the media to second-guess him. I think they were important to communicate to the public what was happening and why we were doing certain things, but politically the benefit of having this extended record is incalculable.
How many restaurants and fast food places were there back in the ‘50’s and mid-’60’s?
It used to be that going out to eat was only for special occasions, such as anniversaries and birthdays.
Weird how not one single government employee has missed a paycheck or even a reduction in pay.
Huh.
Trees of liberty and all that
Where there is talent and capability, there will be a return. Not a fast return, as money for start-up might be an issue, but talent, particularly is preparing food, will prevail in the end.
Last night I happily ordered dinner from one of my local restaurants which is a small “hole in the wall” Italian joints that has incredible food.
Tomorrow I’ll be ordering from another local small restaurant that still has it’s doors open and although they aren’t seating customers, you can order food and pick it up easily enough as they aren’t large enough to offer delivery.
I’m doing what I can to help keep these small places in business by frequenting them as much as I can afford to.
Agree with all your other rants 100%...
Dear Governor;
My son works in Human Resources and has been with a few companies including one that was in the food service industry with franchises all over the country and internationally.
From his stories, California has some of the most extreme employment laws in the world and some of the most lawsuit prone employees in the world. If you really want to see restaurants succeed and small businesses open and prosper, the laws regarding employment need to drastically change.
If you are not sincere, the same oh same oh. Good luck.
Perfect meme. That’s exactly what they did. Blew it up by shutting it down.
This was all an unnecessary media and Dem driven panic.
Its everywhere - in more than just the restaurant industry. Here in sacramento, mile upon mile of closed stripmalls, small businesses that most will not reopen or if they do, wont be able to stay open very long before bankruptcy.