Yeah, under the circumstances, I'm not having a lot of sympathy since their arguments basically come down to "my business is more important than doing everything we can to keep the population safe until a vaccine comes around".
We've spent four months with my husband out of work and going nuts, stuck up in the house with our usual outlets unavailable completely, we've managed to see maybe 7-8 friends over at the house over that span of time (towards to changeover from Safer At Home to Protect Your Neighbor), there's at least one project that I'm going to try to finish that's frankly of very limited utility until we can have gatherings of any size again, and they're basically fronting an argument that our sacrifices here have to amount to nothing because they could lose their own shirts through what is, frankly, no fault of their own but still in the "shit happens" category just like all the crap we've had to sacrifice here. I'm not filled with a lot of sympathy for their position with the arguments they're fronting. The only thing that holds water is that the local barcade chain The1Up has put up some noise about the casinos being able to reopen with machines and they're not allowed to open with their own machines turned on, but they've also made the decision to not open as just another tavern, which at least earns some of my respect.
And I do agree that the economic damage of losing some bars is far preferable to the economic damage of "oops, we close it all again" on repeat. Which is a very REAL possibility right now.
TL;DR: Given the whining over the required sacrifices, with one exception I don't think the bars and taverns deserve my business.
We've spent four months with my husband out of work and going nuts, stuck up in the house with our usual outlets unavailable completely, we've managed to see maybe 7-8 friends over at the house over that span of time (towards to changeover from Safer At Home to Protect Your Neighbor), there's at least one project that I'm going to try to finish that's frankly of very limited utility until we can have gatherings of any size again, and they're basically fronting an argument that our sacrifices here have to amount to nothing because they could lose their own shirts through what is, frankly, no fault of their own but still in the "shit happens" category just like all the crap we've had to sacrifice here. I'm not filled with a lot of sympathy for their position with the arguments they're fronting. The only thing that holds water is that the local barcade chain The1Up has put up some noise about the casinos being able to reopen with machines and they're not allowed to open with their own machines turned on, but they've also made the decision to not open as just another tavern, which at least earns some of my respect.
And I do agree that the economic damage of losing some bars is far preferable to the economic damage of "oops, we close it all again" on repeat. Which is a very REAL possibility right now.
TL;DR: Given the whining over the required sacrifices, with one exception I don't think the bars and taverns deserve my business.
"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor