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Comment by shadowgovt

Exactly. While things are closed, there's a reason for restaurants to demand support from the government. Everyone suffers, but homogeneously and less.

If we open up, support from the government zeroes out and bars and restaurants will find themselves in two circumstances: they will be partially full because people are scared to be in public (and will struggle to make ends meet and maybe fail), or they will be plenty full until someone brings in COVID-19, a bunch of folks get sick, contact-tracing tracks it back to the bar or restaurant, word gets around, and business at that place crashes because it's a plague vector. Some businesses will win in this circumstance. Most will lose.

It's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma deal.

parent shadowgovt 6 years ago

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