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Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by tzs »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #15

“Restaurants will be allowed to provide take-out and delivery services but no in-person dining will be permitted. I live an SRO. I don't have a kitchen. I currently don't have a fridge. I have a small grill and some shelving to store stuff. I eat a lot of takeout. I'm glad to see I can still get takeout. But, wow. This is beginning to look pretty scary. I was homeless for a few years. The quarantine/containment measu…

Domino’s is allowing no contact delivery. You pay online for the food plus any tip you want for the driver, and tell them where to leave the delivery, such as at the front door. They leave the food without any need for in person interaction.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

reedx8 wrote: post #59
Cyph0n wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also live in the Raleigh area, and it has just been baffling how care-free everyone is...

The relevant facts are, one, only much older people have to worry about it, and two, the cure already exists in washing yourself. This common flu is here to stay, the absolute risk to vast majority of people is extremely insignificant.

That's categorically false. Read more, and get educated.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by DoreenMichele »

tzs wrote: post #61
DoreenMichele wrote: post #15

“Restaurants will be allowed to provide take-out and delivery services but no in-person dining will be permitted. I live an SRO. I don't have a kitchen. I currently don't have a fridge. I have a small grill and some shelving to store stuff. I eat a lot of takeout. I'm glad to see I can still get takeout. But, wow. This is beginning to look pretty scary. I was homeless for a few years. The quarantine/containment measu…

Domino’s is allowing no contact delivery. You pay online for the food plus any tip you want for the driver, and tell them where to leave the delivery, such as at the front door. They leave the food without any need for in person interaction.

Thanks.

I probably can't do that in my building. It's a secure building and I've never figured out how to get delivered food here. You need a key to enter the building.

But it's good info and thank you for posting it. I hope it helps other people.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by cavisne »

Analemma_ wrote: post #3
caconym_ wrote: post #2

Good. Aggressive steps like this are the only way we'll get a handle on what's happening. The alternative is exponential runaway and complete disaster. Full disclosure: I live in Seattle.

Another Seattle resident here... I wonder if we're only a few days away from a Hubei/Italy-style lockdown where you can't go outside except for groceries and pharmaceuticals. Is there precedent for that in American history?

I think that is the next step in the official escalation plan

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/seattle-are...

There is very little precedent I could find, however baltimore did impose a curfew in 2015 for a short period of time.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by seieste »

reedx8 wrote: post #59
Cyph0n wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also live in the Raleigh area, and it has just been baffling how care-free everyone is...

The relevant facts are, one, only much older people have to worry about it, and two, the cure already exists in washing yourself. This common flu is here to stay, the absolute risk to vast majority of people is extremely insignificant.

Italy is recording a death every four minutes. The annual flu doesn't even come close to that.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by EvanAnderson »

Merad wrote: post #8

IMO the only question now is how long it takes the rest of the country to follow suite. Here in NC our governor announced the closing of all public schools on Friday, but I've heard from several friends that in my city (Raleigh) the downtown bars and restaurants were pretty much at normal capacity this weekend. I don't think the general public is going to truly take this seriously until they're told that they have to…

Ohio closed restaurants and bars effective 9 PM local time. I hope it gets people to take this more seriously.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by bthrn »

eyegor wrote: post #42

This is going to be an economic catastrophe unless there's somehow a nationwide bailout to literally all brick and mortar businesses. I know of several local bar/restaurants that are considering shutting down for good, and a colleague near Melbourne told me of 4 that already have (I'm eastern US). Even if this all blows over in 3 months, we'll have a huge surge in homelessness and folks needing social assistance acro…

This is crazy to ponder given it’s only been a couple weeks. I feel terrible about so many smaller businesses teetering close to insolvency.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by jay754 »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #15

“Restaurants will be allowed to provide take-out and delivery services but no in-person dining will be permitted. I live an SRO. I don't have a kitchen. I currently don't have a fridge. I have a small grill and some shelving to store stuff. I eat a lot of takeout. I'm glad to see I can still get takeout. But, wow. This is beginning to look pretty scary. I was homeless for a few years. The quarantine/containment measu…

Doordash is also doing a no contact delivery in Toronto.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by baus »

Merad wrote: post #8

IMO the only question now is how long it takes the rest of the country to follow suite. Here in NC our governor announced the closing of all public schools on Friday, but I've heard from several friends that in my city (Raleigh) the downtown bars and restaurants were pretty much at normal capacity this weekend. I don't think the general public is going to truly take this seriously until they're told that they have to…

I have family in Raleigh, and I’m concerned that with the known Biogen cases and the lack of “social distancing” that there might be a major outbreak there

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by shartshooter »

This is a good move. We’re obviously moving slower than we ought to and only time will tell how late we are.

The one thing we, in the US, have been consistent in this is that we’re too slow to act.

There’s obviously a risk of the pendulum swinging the other way but until we see a down tick in cases we have to assume we’ve got ground to make up.

Case growth won’t start decreasing until social distancing is widely adopted.

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