Businesses On The COVID's Crossroads: Weigh Reopening - Or Close Again

[50 shades of black + 254]

After months of shutdown, restaurants, stores and even amusement parks announced their reopening with fanfare. But now that states like Texas and Arizona are seeing alarming surges in reported cases of COVID-19, businesses large and small must decide whether to keep their doors open. In some cases, governments are pausing their reopening plans. On Friday, Texas and Arizona shut down bars except for takeout and scaled back restaurant dining capacity. Florida banned alcohol consumption at bars. Apple, which started reopening its stores May 11, has closed at least 32 stores in hot spots like Florida and Texas.  Many businesses had already taken those steps on their own, saying rising case numbers and shifting advice from state and local governments did not give them the confidence to stay open. In East Lansing, Michigan, Harper’s Restaurant and Brewpub reopened June 8 to an exuberant college crowd. Now it’s closed again, and health officials are urging people who visited the bar to self-quarantine. As of Friday, at least 85 patrons had tested positive for COVID-19. Some businesses are delaying reopening. Disneyland in Anaheim, California, had planned to reopen July 17 but said this week it will push that back indefinitely while it waits for new state regulations....

[CarlHainze + 12]

Not like they have a choice either open and maintain social distancing or close...

[ThunderBlade + 231]

Yep. Crossroads. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic the struggle with job loss, death of a loved one, fear, worry and uncertainty with our future may increase "mists" within us, and that we should also look after (mental health) aside from our our physical health.

[pinto + 293]

Too many problems which are in the correlation with COVID 19....

[Brian W + 78]

Extreme inequality.... as 45M Americans lost their jobs—US billionaires made $584B

[rainman + 263]

Wear a mask. It is the most effective thing any of us can do while we wait for a vaccine. Governments and business should require them.  It’s also just basic decency to wear a mask and protect others.

[ronwagn + 6,290]

5 hours ago, Brian W said:

Extreme inequality.... as 45M Americans lost their jobs—US billionaires made $584B

Please explain or give your reference. Of course anyone who pulled out of the stock market would lose if they did not jump back in at the right moment. That is their own mistake. The little people are usually in mutual funds or stock indexes that are managed for them. If not they made a big mistake. "Experts" have been warning that stocks are overpriced for years!

[ronwagn + 6,290]

5 hours ago, Brian W said:

Extreme inequality.... as 45M Americans lost their jobs—US billionaires made $584B

Sounds like socialist talk to me. Venezuela and Cuba might be an option. 

[ronwagn + 6,290]

We need to open everything as soon as possible. Encourage precautions. Let free people make free decisions but allow businesses to have their own rules. Governors should make advisory rules for precautions, NOT edicts that affect rural areas unfairly!

Next, they will be begging for the federal government to print more free money for them. Let them lay off the socialist social science professors, teachers and administrators throughout America. In Illinois many of them make over 100,000 a year in RETIREMENT so Illinois is BROKE. 

Edited June 29, 2020 by ronwagn