Why is it ok for some, but not for others?
The restrictions have come. “Social distancing, social distancing, social distancing!”; “Stop the world!”. There have been questions this week on whether if these restrictions are going too far, not to mention if eventually we find out whether these will work? So let’s think about it, when President Trump stated, “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.” One would have to think, when exactly do we decide to stop saving a patient’s life and all that? After all, these precautions we are taking is indeed killing the economy. What if, again, WHAT IF we were (all the Governors and everyone else) by going off of the notion of the “mild cases” being 95%, to just let this thing “play itself out” and the world goes on as normal? Could the hospitals go into bankruptcy? Even if they did, Congress could just address to a small & detailed area (that being in the prosperous medical field) on where to send “stimulus money” instead of the highly debated allocation of the just signed two trillion dollar stimulus package as to who is getting a fair or an unfair deal?
Speaking of unfair deals; restaurants, bars as well as tanning & hair salons are either being required to limit their service (thus causing layoffs & severe revenue shortages) or being required to shut down altogether! Yet here, any factory is”exempt”, which means they can run business as usual, sure it does say in Governor Evers’ mass gathering restrictions that social distancing in these exempt places must be implemented “as much as practicable” it reads. But is that good enough? I would say there is a difference between manufacturing things and serving food that was just cooked (or prepared if it’s a salad or such) in open air as opposed to manufactured products or the prepackaged food available in grocery stores. There is a restriction in grocery stores for instance that the self serve doughnut display must now be shut down. The question would be here, if these types of restrictions are not good enough (sure, the experts say we won’t know for sure for a few weeks) then why are there restrictions on anything? Put yourself in the restaurant or bar owners’ shoes and what your’ response would be if you were asked if this is all worth it? You know their revenue numbers are just dropping. I know probably the best way of doing restrictions is a complete lockdown. Like don’t leave home period. Have the military get involved by delivering rations, an orderly way on transferring patients, etc. Now THAT would be restrictions! But don’t go half way! Don’t say it’s ok for grocery stores, gas stations, liquor stores, factories and such to be open while placing the said restrictions on restaurants, bars, salons & others! It should either be have restrictions for everything or have no restrictions at all. Really!
All your doing is limiting people where they can go.as a owner of a bar.I look at menards daily see hundreds of people going in and out all day but the max I would have in my place 120.But no you can’t be open But yet the liquor stores are open.Along with many otheres.You call that social distance. But yet on top of that.You close Golf courses.It not right how you choose to make some suffer.and not others.