(06-30-2020, 03:57 AM)Labster Wrote: Still alive here, still working from home. The reopening is slowly starting to reverse itself as people here in California realize things are getting pretty bad again. Today, the governor politely suggested that our bars should close. I'm pretty sure that in a week it will be an order. It's too bad, since they just reopened, but hey, California is already famous for catching really big waves.
The worst is yet to come
And I'm sure some of those bars will NOT reopen once this is all over. See: added economic damage caused by having to reclose because they tried to reopen too quickly. And I'm sure that, looking down the barrel of "not sure the next allowed reopening is going to be the end of this dark tunnel," some of those places will just throw in the towel and take the loss of the business.
So far here in Colorado, the hospitalization curve hasn't been bending back upward. Yet. But we're also still doing a very measured slow reopening. At least one of the barcades (three locations) has made noises about the casinos getting a massively reduced capacity allowance with their machines, yet they feel they can't reopen themselves because their arcade and pinball lineup must be completely off and roped off so there's not much point.
"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