GREAT DEPRESSION 2
Posted on 04/26/2020 4:24:08 AM PDT by Bruiser 10
On Friday evening, the 8731 Katy Freeway location of Federal American Grill in Houston, Texas, opened up its doors for in-dining room customers despite an ongoing order from state and local lawmakers to remain closed except for take-out.
Owner Matt Brice told the Houston Chronicle that the restaurant has “complied 100 percent until now.”
“What I don’t like is that the government is picking and choosing which businesses win or lose. They are sinking the economy,” Brice said. “We have to stand our ground and get people back to work.”
Brice also told the Chronicle that precautions were being taken in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, as “one death is too many.”
The restaurant is operating at only 30% seating capacity, according to the owner, and staff are required to wear face masks and gloves, as well as have their temperature checked prior to working. Additionally, customers are afforded the opportunity to pay with Venmo and PayPal, reports the news outlet.
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When our ‘leaders’ all start wearing masks I’ll take your proposition more seriously.
Why don’t you flubros all meet in a smokey bar and have a big hugs and cough fest, to prove you are invulnerable, and it’s all just a hoax?
I agree, they should.
So why are you posting this to me?
The comparison is not really a like-for-like comparison, because the country did not shut down en masse in 1918 as we are doing now, so herd-immunity was being developed simultaneously with the mask-wearing. People still contracted the flu, and many died, but most did not. I think the mask-wearing is little more than an adult version of a little kid's security blanket unless one is coughing, sneezing, etc. If one is showing those symptoms then they should simply quarantine themselves. That being said; I will gladly compromise by wearing a mask if it means that everything can re-open immediately.
Putting the entire country on lockdown for something with a 99% recovery rate is not only crippling the economy, but it will simply weaken our overall immune systems so that when we do emerge from our cocoons; we will be more susceptible to every virus out there. This will result in more people having to seek medical attention, possibly overwhelming the system and will allow the leftist media to say, "See. We told you so." This will create a greater acceptance of "vote-by-mail" for the election in November, all in the name of "safety".
Best of luck to everyone.
Can any restaurant survive at 30% capacity?
Dr. Erickson COVID-19 Briefing, 2 parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfLVxx_lBLU&t=161s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb6j7o1pLBw&t=4s
GREAT DEPRESSION 2
Any person so stupid as to run a restaurant using these ridiculous and ignorant “checks” I wouldn’t trust to make me food.
Here in Nevada-—You can go to the CAR WASH, but you cannot go to the barber!!!
Worked great for small-pox, rubella, cholera and polio. These just were no problem at all.
But mask wearing works brilliantly. Our great-grandfathers figured this out a century ago.
Two 50% effective masks mean -75% infection chance between two people standing near one another.
(Two 75% effective masks means -94%.)
(Two 95% (N-95) effective masks means -99.75.)
And it means FAR less virus landing on surfaces to be touched by others.
It worked in 1918-19, and it will work today.
Instead, we are locking down the economy, and are following the Zimbabwe/Venezuela printing money formula.
Billions spent on N-95 masks (Manhattan Project level) and a masks in public policy could eradicate Coronavirus in a few months.
“I by far consider “Greta” McGee to be one of the most obnoxious of the fearmongers”
That’s why, flu-bro.
How Contagious is COVID-19? (Transmission, Spread, and R0)
[Excellent 3 minute educational video] April 11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzW9UUmImVA
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 occurs via droplet transmission, contact transmission, and aerosol transmission. Droplet transmission occurs when respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes are inhaled by a person nearby. Contact transmission occurs when a person touches a contaminated surface and then their mouth, nose, or eyes.
Aerosol transmission occurs when respiratory droplets containing the virus mix into the air and then are inhaled. COVID-19 is stable for up to 24 hours on cardboard, 2-3 days on plastic and stainless steel and up to three hours in aerosols, which include fog, mist, dust, air pollutants, and smoke. Therefore, it is possible to get infected by touching contaminated objects or through the air.
The incubation period is the time between infection and symptom onset for an illness. Estimates for COVID-19’s incubation period vary from 2-14 days, but it is generally assumed to be around 5 days. There is more debate about the latent period, which is the time between infection and infectiousness. It is now thought that people can be infectious before showing symptoms, and so the latent period is shorter than the incubation period.
An imported case occurs when a traveler is infected in one area and is reported as sick in another area. Local transmission occurs if that traveler infects others, or if there is a cluster of cases locally and the spread is easily traced. Community transmission occurs when there is no clear source of infection.
Infectivity can be measured using R0. R0 is important epidemiology jargon, short for reproduction number. It is the number of cases, on average, that an infected person will cause during their infectious period. So if R0 =2, then an infected person will infect an average of 2 other people while they are infectious. There are two important variants of the R0. The basic reproduction number represents the maximum potential of a pathogen to infect people – basically what would happen if an infectious person entered a community with no prior immunity.
The effective reproductive number describes the current vulnerability of a population based on whether people have immunity thanks to vaccination or prior exposure. The effective R0 decreases over the course of the outbreak. Note that both basic and effective reproduction number depend on factors such as environment and demographics in addition to the pathogen’s infectiousness. The goal of public health interventions is to bring R0 down to less than 1, as this would cause the disease to die out over time.
The seasonal flu has an R0 ranging from 0.9 – 2.1. There is a lot of debate about the R0 of COVID-19, with estimates from more recent data ranging from 2.7-4.2. The variance in these estimates is largely due to differing model assumptions and a lack of data. For example, models which assume the possibility of being infectious before symptom onset have estimates that are around 0.5 higher.
These high R0 estimates mean there is much greater potential for spread of COVID-19 than for the flu. How much greater? For the purpose of this example, let’s say that the flu has an R0 of 1.5 and COVID-19 has an R0 of 3. After three cycles of infection, 11 people have had the flu, and 40 people have been infected with COVID-19. After ten cycles of infection, this becomes 171 people with the flu, and over 88,000 people with COVID-19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzW9UUmImVA
Awwwww.
That’s who you are. Doesn’t mean I’m on any one of these two teams you guys have created, Greta.
One: No one was padding the HK flu numbers for political reasons.
Two: The deaths aren’t going to continue at the late pace, unless, you know, they figure our ways to pad them even better.
The Dems obvious endgame is universal vote-by-mail in November. Legal vote harvesting too in every state. All to beat Trump. Toss in lots of fraud too.
The name of this site is Free Republic, not "Hold Me, I'm Going to Swoon."
Nobody is saying it's a hoax, you dingelheimer. We're saying that the actions being taken aren't worth the cost in terms of fortune, freedom and the creep of tyranny into our lives.
Pearl-clutching fear porn is all the rage these days.
Exactly!
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