Here’s one restaurant in Seattle making major changes (to benefit both the community and their own livelihood as well as keep their staff employed & working as much as they can) because of the crisis: https://canlis.com/

Terrible attitude to the situation.  Just because you are a low risk group from contracting/dying from the disease doesn’t mean you won’t pass it on to others who ARE at risk, if you were to get it.  Start thinking of the public as a whole and not selfish individuals.

“Reading these comments makes me think that Florida is YOLO at the moment.”

Well I can’t speak for France, but generally speaking, out of tax revenue. Usually you have both higher personal and business taxes, but also by not having stupid policies like we do here in the US that give out massive subsidies to energy companies for no reason, and by not wasting luscious amounts of money on vanity…

Businesses pay into a general fund for unemployment benefits. Same everywhere in the world.

You also can’t just “stay on unemployment”, at least in the US. You have to actively prove you are looking for work or they take away your benefits.

The benefit France is providing is *up to 2 years* of unemployment, not a…

I have another point you guys should think about:
Vote socialist. It might not help this time, but for the next one...

I’m in France, where shit is already hitting pretty hard, and the rules are pretty simple:

As long as the business is working, you can’t fire your employees. So no preventive firings.
And if the business…

On a happier note, people need to remember to provision their pets in their emergency kits, just like their human infants that cannot yet eat real-people food.

Oh man, I thought your comment was going one way (make sure to get a little extra pet food while you stockpile your own), and then it took a reeaal dark turn in the second half.

It’s a popular cooking staple that most people here would never want to eat by itself (like coasters probably imagine). I mix a lb of hamburger with a can of cream of mushroom, which basically forms a thick meat gravy that you set over rice. It’s delicious, and about the easiest thing hot meal I can make. I think my…

Idk if you can learn to love such things.  I hold cream of soups near and dear to my heart after decades of green bean casseroles and scalloped potatoes built upon cream of mushrooms. 

Also, so much this;

not to mention the health department requires sick food service employees to not report for work, but they don’t have the staff to be in every restaurant every day to enforce that.

Speaking as someone who ran restaurants for a long time, and had complete scope of the PNLs, it’s also complete bullshit.

If America ever modernizes and gets universal health care, can we also get some universal sick leave?

Stuff like this is the main reason I stay at my tech company. Not as great as yours but close. My ex-wife pushed me to try and find a better paying job (we pay about 10knunder industry standard) but the generous PTO, Remote work standards, phenomenal health insurance, and a wonderful commitment to employee work/life…

... you guys need a G Suite administrator? Asking not for a friend.

My wife keeps telling me I hit the job lottery and I cannot disagree with her.

Paid sick leave.

Unfortunately we’ve created a workworkwork at all costs culture where you will be grumbled about or worse for taking time off to get better. So we can’t really get mad at those people who don’t take sick time. It sucks but they’ve got a family to feed. I get it.

It’s ridiculous out here. We have a local suspected case and his workplace (a casino across the street from my office) was closed yesterday for deep cleaning. They kicked everyone out of the hotel, everything.