The more puritanical types always disapprove of strip clubs. Their power has been increasing because the feminist left has increasingly joined the religious fundamentalist right in being against them. In recent years, rather than outright bans, city governments have used licensing and zoning laws to prevent new ones from opening. The remaining ones get older and more rundown and the neighborhoods they are in decline and their customer base dwindles since no one wants to go into a dangerous area to visit a old rundown strip club. Clubs then close on their own without the city government even doing anything.
The Covid lockdowns are just another tool to hasten this process. There are other factors involved in the decline of strip clubs but this putting them in a separate category than other legal businesses and then requiring them to jump through more hoops to go into or stay in business is a major cause of their decline. They won't completely disappear, though, since there will always be some demand for this. The demand would be higher, though, if it was easier to open new clubs as was the case years ago when the clubs currently in existence were first allowed to open.
