Georgia with an interesting experiment
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Or high enough to keep them open. Gym memberships are going to sink like a stone and not recover for a long, long time. Movie theaters have been hanging by a thread for years anyway.
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Or high enough to keep them open. Gym memberships are going to sink like a stone and not recover for a long, long time. Movie theaters have been hanging by a thread for years anyway.
@Mik said in Georgia with an interesting experiment:
Or high enough to keep them open. Gym memberships are going to sink like a stone and not recover for a long, long time. Movie theaters have been hanging by a thread for years anyway.
The movie theater issue is getting me. For years I have had a goal of opening up a drive-in theater in Northern Virginia. Nice big screen, Audio through a narrow broadcast FM radio channel and perhaps an on location network, have an outdoor BBQ pit going, beer and wine sales to non-drivers, and service brought to your car. Order from the app.
I bet I could charge $40 a person for a double feature, and get favorable rates with the film distributors right now, too.
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I am more comfortable with reopening movie theaters. With assigned seating and leaving, say, 80% of the seats unoccupied, the theater would some way of enforcing social distancing. Unlike gym and restaurants, movie goers can wear masks at all times. Concession sales will take a big hit, but the public health aspect is manageable.
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I am more comfortable with reopening movie theaters. With assigned seating and leaving, say, 80% of the seats unoccupied, the theater would some way of enforcing social distancing. Unlike gym and restaurants, movie goers can wear masks at all times. Concession sales will take a big hit, but the public health aspect is manageable.
@Axtremus said in Georgia with an interesting experiment:
I am more comfortable with reopening movie theaters. With assigned seating and leaving, say, 80% of the seats unoccupied, the theater would some way of enforcing social distancing. Unlike gym and restaurants, movie goers can wear masks at all times. Concession sales will take a big hit, but the public health aspect is manageable.
How about the making money aspect with 80% of the seats empty and no concessions?
I don't think you would want to have to manage that budget.
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@Axtremus said in Georgia with an interesting experiment:
I am more comfortable with reopening movie theaters. With assigned seating and leaving, say, 80% of the seats unoccupied, the theater would some way of enforcing social distancing. Unlike gym and restaurants, movie goers can wear masks at all times. Concession sales will take a big hit, but the public health aspect is manageable.
How about the making money aspect with 80% of the seats empty and no concessions?
I don't think you would want to have to manage that budget.
@Copper said in Georgia with an interesting experiment:
How about the making money aspect with 80% of the seats empty and no concessions?
I don't think you would want to have to manage that budget.
Jack up the ticket prices.
Most of the time when there are movies playing, most seats in theaters are empty anyway. Even before the pandemic, it's not unusual that I would go into a movie theater and find that over 80% of the seats are unoccupied throughout the movie.
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Trump was for it before he was against it.
Seems believable. How do you go from ‘LIBERATE MICHIGAN’ to ‘I disagree strongly’ with Georgia in a single day?
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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Trump was for it before he was against it.
Seems believable. How do you go from ‘LIBERATE MICHIGAN’ to ‘I disagree strongly’ with Georgia in a single day?
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I find the lack of coordination in your country extraordinary. Your death toll is heading for 60k and the government will simply say "I wouldn't do that if I were you" but allow a governor to drop the donkey in a minefield.
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I find the lack of coordination in your country extraordinary. Your death toll is heading for 60k and the government will simply say "I wouldn't do that if I were you" but allow a governor to drop the donkey in a minefield.
@AndyD said in Georgia with an interesting experiment:
I find the lack of coordination in your country extraordinary. Your death toll is heading for 60k and the government will simply say "I wouldn't do that if I were you" but allow a governor to drop the donkey in a minefield.
It's because they invented freedom and now they have no idea what to do with it.
In completely unrelated news, I've recently tattooed 'Help Me' on my eyelids.
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Trump was for it before he was against it.
Seems believable. How do you go from ‘LIBERATE MICHIGAN’ to ‘I disagree strongly’ with Georgia in a single day?
@jon-nyc said in Georgia with an interesting experiment:
Trump was for it before he was against it.
Seems believable. How do you go from ‘LIBERATE MICHIGAN’ to ‘I disagree strongly’ with Georgia in a single day?
Well he has practice. “This is not a pandemic” to “I always knew it was a pandemic”.
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Part of it is constitutional. But not all. The federal government can coordinate supply for example, but Trump publicly waffles on how much he wants to be responsible for that.
Personally I’m very happy that my governor is making the calls for NY rather than Trump.
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Do you prefer Deep State or Deep Shit?
I was only joking
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I find the lack of coordination in your country extraordinary. Your death toll is heading for 60k and the government will simply say "I wouldn't do that if I were you" but allow a governor to drop the donkey in a minefield.
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Do you prefer Deep State or Deep Shit?
@Doctor-Phibes said in Georgia with an interesting experiment:
Do you prefer Deep State or Deep Shit?
There's a difference?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Georgia with an interesting experiment:
Do you prefer Deep State or Deep Shit?
There's a difference?
@George-K said in Georgia with an interesting experiment:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Georgia with an interesting experiment:
Do you prefer Deep State or Deep Shit?
There's a difference?
Square/rectangle.
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We talked about gyms.
How about nail salons? Doesn’t it seem just a matter of time until the nail lady gets it from a customer? They spend, what, 15+ minutes face to face in pretty close quarters with each successive customer? Even with masks on that’s a lot of time. Then when the employee gets it they spend some number of infectious asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic days that close to numerous customers.
Strikes me as up there with gyms on the list of places that I wouldn’t open on the first wave.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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From our local (400 feet away from my place) grocer:
"Dear Shoppers,
It is our duty to report that an employee tested positive for COVID-19 today, April 23rd. We have consulted with the health department and our particular situation has been deemed a 'low risk' exposure, and have been cleared to stay open. We have since conducted a deep sanitation to the best of our ability and have scheduled a professional COVID santitation cleaning for tomorrow afternoon. As we did not want to leave anyone in the community without any needed goods, we will remain open for limited hours tomorrow, April 24th, from 8AM-1PM. During this time, we will be offering curbside pickup so that customers do not need to enter into the store if they so choose.
We will reopen on Saturday, April 25th at 7:30AM. We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your understanding."
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I remember the halcyon days of late March and early April when the grocery stores would bother to tell us those things.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
