Things Are Coming Back (hopefully)
shailynn
They never tell you what you need to know.
Well, it looks like most states are heading in the direction of starting to open up.
For the states around me, if new cases don’t rise significantly - it looks like most businesses (including restaurants, Churches, massage/spas) all should open within the next 4 weeks. Every state has different criteria and the comparisons from state to state are often eyebrow raising.
What most states I’ve seen are keeping closed: movie theaters, any event with over 50 people (concert/sporting events). Surprisingly (to me) it appears most states will open casinos.
Fair warning - you can doubt me, but a lot of talk I am hearing from professional sources is most universities and schools will not open like normal in August/Fall.
I know for a fact one large university is thinking:
1. Completely cancelling the fall semester
2. Having the fall semester start in November (instead of late August) and finishing up the spring in July (instead of May).
For the states around me, if new cases don’t rise significantly - it looks like most businesses (including restaurants, Churches, massage/spas) all should open within the next 4 weeks. Every state has different criteria and the comparisons from state to state are often eyebrow raising.
What most states I’ve seen are keeping closed: movie theaters, any event with over 50 people (concert/sporting events). Surprisingly (to me) it appears most states will open casinos.
Fair warning - you can doubt me, but a lot of talk I am hearing from professional sources is most universities and schools will not open like normal in August/Fall.
I know for a fact one large university is thinking:
1. Completely cancelling the fall semester
2. Having the fall semester start in November (instead of late August) and finishing up the spring in July (instead of May).
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I heard someone on TV tonight mention that the month of May should be used as a staging month per se to get ready for openings come June - he mentioned using May to ramp up testing capacity, procuring PPE and medical equipment (should a subsequent surge come), etc - I thought that was a sensical way to go about it - use May kinda like the pre-season in football to get ready for the regular-season - i.e. use the month of May to put us in a better position vs rushing it unprepared and hoping it doesn't go bad.
We already have ramped up testing, we already have the PPE and equipment. Except in just a few areas, the hospitals are empty because there are no patients. We need to rip the band-aid off this thing and go on with our lives.
Open It Up !
But as far universities go, I hope the federal government withholds all federal money from every school that tries that stunt. Title 1, Stafford Loans, Pell grants, everything. That would bludgeon most schools open pretty quickly. The kids deserve better than that and I think some professors are just going to have to dig deep for a little more courage. Also, if almost everything else is opening up in May and June I think that colleges are going to face increasing pressure to get their campuses back up and running by August.
I don’t know how the rest of the country is doing with worker’s compensation payments to laid off workers. But here in south Florida due to the massive incompetence of the government not very many have seen a cent in unemployment payments
Yet I received my stimulus check with a letter from Donald Trump enclosed almost 8 days ago.
As a matter of fact most folks attempting to apply for benefits haven’t even been able to file a request due to the complete disaster of a response by this state’s emergency services led by Governor Ron DeSantis
Open it up !
I wonder how many state employees have missed a paycheck, I have personally handed cash to employees needing various things has Governor DeSantis done any of that himself
I blame all of those who are getting paid when it’s their job to make sure others are not being let down and having promised money being delayed
Bet if the responsible parties only got paid if they did their job correctly the benefit checks would get to the folks that were supposed to receive those benefits
That said (IMO only):
Restaurants: 1/2 to 1/3 capacity, two top tables are gone, no parties of 6 or more.
Retail/malls: open
Beaches: open
Movies: 1/3 capacity per show, reserved seating, every other row vacant and minimum 3-4 chairs between guests in same row. Problem with movies is they’re run by teens so I’m ambivalent on this and could go either way.
Groceries: Open until 10 pm. Must ration meat, tp, paper towels, Clorox, Lysol, and Purell.
Hairdressers: open and by appt only
Dry cleaners: open
Casinos: open (Wynn will show them how to do it, Wynn is planning to have heat sensors at entry to check for fever and cards and chips will be sanitized by UV, more emphasis on cleaning, etc.)
Strip Clubs: Open. If not people are going to get blue balls and all sorts of crazy shit is gonna happen.
Bars: limited capacity
Let’s get people back to work, fear and stress is probably worse in the long term as far as health.
Ps Buffets are dead. No more Golden Corral for Juice.
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Depends on if the $2700 a week which also comes with health insurance and benefits and if I had a family or kids with issues, etc.. The thing about unemployment is temporary gap health care is very expensive.
Ps - The blue balls thing was facetious.
There's a way to make casinos work but I'm not sure how fun they would be. Certainly you could have electronic slot and other machines and a crew of cleaners ready to swoop in any time. A patron changes machines?