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Post by B.E. on Mar 16, 2020 15:59:51 GMT
Looks like NY, NJ, and CT are closing restaurants, bars, casinos, gyms, movie theaters, and racetracks at 8pm tonight and will remain closed indefinitely. All 3 states plan to reopen the businesses on the same date. Restaurants can still offer take-out/delivery services. Other "non-essential" businesses can remain open, but only if no more than 50 people are inside the establishment at a time and people stay 6ft apart.
I'm not sure about NY or CT, but NJ is also implementing an 8pm curfew and schools will be closed statewide.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 16, 2020 16:15:23 GMT
Schools have closed here (at least through the 27th), but there aren't forced restaurant closings or curfews. They have given guidance, though, along the same lines: no crowds, etc. I have seen a couple restaurants going to delivery/take-out only, and expect more to come.
Health is and should be the #1 concern. Obviously.
But this is going to have massive effects on the economy as well. It'll be tough times ahead.
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Post by jk on Mar 16, 2020 16:25:46 GMT
All educational facilities, sports centres, bars and restaurants, saunas, sex clubs and legal cannabis outlets have been closed across the entire Netherlands for the next three weeks. There are day facilities for the children of parents whose work is considered vital to the running of the country.
It's strange to see certain Dutch TV shows without an audience--all gatherings of more than 100 people are forbidden by law.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 16, 2020 16:38:56 GMT
There are day facilities for the children of parents whose work is considered vital to the running of the country. This is something I worry about in the USA. Not just the "considered vital" part, because we're not quite so broadly shut down. But we have many people whose kids are staying home as schools close, and have no good options. (No available daycare, can't take time off work, etc.)
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Post by B.E. on Mar 16, 2020 16:59:03 GMT
My mother teaches kindergarten. Today they are trying to set up remote learning. Partly for the more serious obstacles listed above (also, online access), I seriously question how effective it could be. I can't imagine teaching students that young, remotely.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 16, 2020 20:47:07 GMT
Well, my place of employment just announced that it's closing for two weeks effective immediately - and my job doesn't allow me to work at home. So, if you start to see an overabundance of unnecessary posts from me...
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Post by jk on Mar 16, 2020 21:12:02 GMT
Well, my place of employment just announced that it's closing for two weeks effective immediately - and my job doesn't allow me to work at home. So, if you start to see an overabundance of unnecessary posts from me... Sorry to hear that, Sheriff. (Your posts are never unnecessary, sir.)
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Mar 16, 2020 21:20:13 GMT
Almost seems like we're heading towards a complete shutdown. In addition to bars and restaurants, Ohio is now closing places like gyms, rec centers, movie theaters, and indoor water parks. The Dow was already down around 2,000 points and took a further nosedive when the president said this could last for months. Probably no baseball until at least June...
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 16, 2020 21:41:44 GMT
Minneapolis just required bars and restaurants to close except for delivery/takeout, among other things that are similar to what we've seen elsewhere.
Sorry to hear about the work situation SJS.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 16, 2020 21:54:02 GMT
Minneapolis just required bars and restaurants to close except for delivery/takeout, among other things that are similar to what we've seen elsewhere.
Sorry to hear about the work situation SJS.
Thanks. I'm going into the office tomorrow morning. There seems to be some confusion about the employees taking some vacation time vs. filing for unemployment compensation.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Mar 17, 2020 4:16:25 GMT
Ohio postponed it's primary that was set to open in just a few hours. At first it was postponed, and a lawsuit was filed because, well, you can't just do that. A judge ruled that you can not in fact do that, but not long after DeWine overruled him and canceled it anyway due to it being a health emergency. It kind of sets a precedent that you don't really want to set.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 17, 2020 12:32:07 GMT
NPR/PBS/Marist released their latest monthly poll, which shows some interesting views into the situation. (There are a few pages of the monthly presidential job approval polling; it gets into coronavirus questions a little bit further into it, on page 9.)
I wonder whether people's media choices are impacting their views so significantly, or if it's just a matter of loyalty to/belief in the president, or what. But the differences are stark.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 17, 2020 17:38:27 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 18, 2020 12:55:22 GMT
Sounds like the federal government has gone all Andrew Yang on us, with the administration proposing a direct stimulus in the form of $,1000 cash to citizens by the end of April. (Details, and of course actually passing such a thing, TBD.)
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 20, 2020 12:12:48 GMT
This morning I wanted to pick up a few groceries. There's a neighborhood grocery store literally just a little more than a block down the street, the kind and size of store familiar to those whose experiences predate the Super Targets, Wal-Marts, Cub Foods, and of course Costcos and Sam's Clubs.
Figured I'd head over early, before shelves had the chance to go through their daily emptying, and I know it opens at 6. So around 6:15, I walked over. Dangit, a sign says they aren't opening until 7 during the crisis. Walked home. Headed back at 7. Read the sign a little closer: turns out from 7-8 it's for at-risk citizens only, opening to the rest of us at 8. Dangit, somebody has to teach me to read the whole sign!
So back home again, waiting another 50 minutes to try again. There better not be another sentence I've missed the previous two times!
(I like the policy, by the way. Not complaining about that in the slightest. I'm glad our more at-risk shoppers can have the first chance to get what they need without being elbowed out of the way by someone grabbing his nineteenth and twentieth frozen pizzas or whatever.)
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