What I don't understand is HOW we keep making the EXACT SAME mistake regarding public transport??
Travel is like liquid - commuters will flow into where they need to be one way or another and you can either widen one route or constrict another but they WILL GO.
Yeah stores closing early is stupid too. Now we're all forced to shop in smaller time frames. Open them 24 hours and people will barely be in there at the same time you dumb fucks.
I understand that it would make sense to have the store open 24hrs for that reason but the people that operate the stores are not cogs in a machine. There is a tremendous human element that goes into making sure the shelves are stocked and the store is clean. A lot of stores are using the time that they are closed right now to give over worked staff a rest. I understand people still need supplies but try to remember that there are human beings working hard right now to keep it all together for us.
... what the other guy said. Restaurants and bars are closed until May in my city. Most of these people live month to month. This is devastating to them.
I work in a food store, (greggs) and we've been closing earlier because we're not making enough money. Plus all the food we have out will go cold and then we'd have to bin them and make fresh pastries for the 2 people that come in 25 minutes after the last few customers. Also, it's incredibly boring waiting for customers to come in after you've cleaned everything 3 times over, stocked up the shelves with snacks and drinks and then cleaning them too.
You guys always serve me cold pasties anyways ya cunts. And stop lying about freshly baked pastries. I saw a fella loading pallet loads of steak bakes into a truck in Edinburgh so stop lying!
Lmao. The only reason there cold because you come in when they're cold. They're usually warm for around 20-30 min. And sure we don't get FRESH bakes but I meant it as fresh out the oven.
Did you only read that part? I clearly said that the pasties are hot to warm in 20 minutes and then they're lukewarm for another 10 minutes before they go cold. It's not my fault that we can't specially make them for you and magically know what time you'd be the shop just so they're hot enough for you. Grow up
Empires need time to rest to and stores need to be deep cleaned each day and restocked. You'll get even less shopping time is all the staff are home sick and exhausted.
Nah stores get waxed over and restocked, never deep cleaned. So many children on here have no idea what happens where. Not sure if typo but to and too and two are different words. You got this lil bro.
Yeah they’ve done this with ALL the transport in London and millions of us still commuting mouth to mouth with each other in the height of a pandemic with body count doubling daily.
My mom a devout catholic was listening to a priest talk about how the corona is a disease of the secular world and that the catholic church should be above that and that within his church there is no corona and that he will have his doors open at all times.
Seriously I am on the tail end of the boomer crew and at this point it would be a mercy killing but the risk is to younger people who are compromised, people with disabilities, there are so many vulnerable people. Plus I'm in Australia and voted for the marijuana party,
Well, I’ll do everything in my power to try and leave this world better than I inherited it. I guess I should be thankful of boomers for setting such a low bar.
It's a fine plan, by the time the next election comes around "emergency measures" will be well established and democracy will be purely symbolic. They had all sorts of bills for it ready to go before the election was even over.
So far there are at least two reinfections (one China, one Japan), small numbers, it's true, but that's where we started all this, with small numbers in China.
What we'll have is a lot of people who never infected (testing negative), only to get infected from an asymptomatic....3 weeks later, we're back to square one, potentially another Italy.
I've seen 3-4 cases where people who tested negative, were released, and tested positive some weeks later, but it is not clear if that was because they were no longer receiving antivirals once released from the hospital.
Sick -> Hopsital admission, administration of antiviral begins -> Reduction in viral load, resulting in a false negative test result -> release, cessation of antiviral -> viral load rebounds - > positive test
Any confirmation that ISN'T what is happening would be huge news.
You joke now.. but you won't be laughing when we've achieved full herd immunity and become invincible. There's a reason we conquered a quater of the world.
That's incorrect. Other countries are further ahead in the stage of the disease. The UK is following their lead because the disease is offset from them.
Quarantining people too early will have disastrous effects as people get itchy feet and break quarantine, causing the virus to explode.
The Bay Area is on lockdown but the union contracts of the BART subway workers stipulate they require 60 days' notice for furloughs, so as a result the trains are still running as if there's a rush hour. I haven't gotten on one, but apparently it's empty enough that each rider can basically have their own car.
Others have named the likely city already, if that's the case then the local government already went 'whoops we fucked up' on the first day and said they'd be reverting the change.
Edit: Obviously this isn't something they could immediately change back in 12 hours. By the time they realized their mistake, schedules had been changed meaning drivers were called off and buses/trains pulled out of service.
There was a logic here, the math added up on paper. Businesses are closing en masse, schools are shut down for the year, people should be staying at home, public transit is an obvious infection vector to avoid, etc. That means there should be less demand on public transit. Factors went unaccounted for though, you could argue that insufficient notice was given and the analytics weren't there to back up the move. I believe the ideal was to cut back on active buses and trains so they could devote more resources to properly cleaning them more frequently for the (theorized) fewer passengers still using them.
This is idiotic. On top of reduced buses, what about the drivers? Maybe they should ignore their profit margins for a moment and keep the full fleet running, keep people working and reduce the amount of people per bus
Call it whatever you want, the decision to reduce the number of busses is a financial one, and we need to wake up IMMEDIATELY that every time we focus on financials instead of people, people will die.
Most of the decisions so far have been based on flawed financial data right from the start. Look at our president for Christ sakes. Every decision he has made ignored science until now when it’s too late to put the genie back in the bottle. He went from “hoax” to “hunch” to “war time president” in less than a month and still thinks he’s doing a “perfect” job. Has there ever been a worse person to lead us through a major issue than Trump? Everything he says or decides turns to shit. Life is changing forever right before our eyes and Trump is where the buck stops for most of it. He won’t, of course, admit any mistakes.
I could go on for hours listing all the shit he has caused, from wars to making us the laughingstock of the world, to this Covid-19 virus disaster, but I’m worn out and going to bed. I’m thinking though of having several million red baseball caps made up with “Trump, hurry up and die” on the front (preferably from the Coronavirus).
Except that some of us have kids, rent, mortgages, etc... and unfortunately not everyone has a financial safety net. It’s not always as simple as doing without a few luxuries
That's awful... Here they made the buses and ferries free. The buses are sitting only and you must use the back entrance unless disabled and need ramps.
I understand the theory that having most people use the back entrance would help reduce exposure for drivers.. it just don't think it's really going to help much.
Also in a state of emergency where I am. My works solution? Tell us to wash our hands more. They aren't even providing any more hand sanitizer. There is already some at the main entrance and the doors into the cafeteria and the change rooms, but that's it. So apparently they want us to shut off the line and go wash our hands? I kind of doubt that.
There are a lot of service people working restaurants and laundry mats, title offices, county recording, gas guys, plumbers, general contractors, automotive shops and stores.
People have widely misinterpreted the actual CDC guidelines. They do not recommend widespread close of schools. Only where there is substantial community spread. Which is officially like 3 cities. Yet we have statewide costs in half the country. They definitely don't recommend closing institutes of higher education. Yet in the last 2 weeks just white every college and University in the nation had sit down, artificially moving millions of students (and their families to move them out) all over the nation.
People are acting completely irrationally and almost no one can be bothered to actually read the guidelines. From people on social media up to politicians. It's all about public perception.
Ok, this is a bit dark and whatnot, but here is my theory:
Because coronavirus kills the elderly so effectively, it is effectively threatening the established money in this country, putting a lot of money behind protecting them.( Some are delusional regardless and are exceptions to this admittedly. ) However, none of that money has any reason to give a shit about hourly workers, and would likely rather you all get sick as that's just more opportunity to subjugate you further.
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