Well considering that it is unlikely that there will literally be 0 restaurants left in America, “obliterate”, meaning completely wipe out, is probably the worse word.

I mean you can go, at this point I don’t think there’s any lower risks anywhere else in the world than just staying in the U.S. (and for a lot of places, probably lower risks).

We just need to last until (1) a vaccine is developed, or (2) everyone’s gotten it but by having everyone temporarily inconvenienced, we’ve spread out infections so our hospitals can take care of the sick.

well as a society, the more people that self-quarantine the lower the risks for everyone.

I’m not sure how being “mindful” of your environment will help - someone comes in to the subway and starts sneezing next to you when you’re two stops away? Being mindful won’t change anything.

Then in your location, restaurants are doing fine. That’ll likely change soon.

well with shutting down most crowded venues like concerts, theaters etc. I think the broader issue is that people aren’t going to places at all (regardless of whether they allow food inside).

I wouldn’t say business are pocketing any savings - more like everyone’s business and money is down nation-wide, so there aren’t just any savings to be had.

I don’t think the “emergency” announcements matter much. Yes, public health emergency, national health emergency, etc. releases more funds to be used. But money is just money. Money only becomes useful if there are appropriate individuals in place to direct that money to where it will be useful.

And China got to that low number of infected by shutting down the entire country and barricading 100s of millions of people in their homes for months, crashing their entire economy.

The reason you are incorrect is you are missing the distinction that Taxes are the payment owed, under the implied social contract, as the price for living in this society.

All of the arguments about ADA Website regulations being too vague, and ADA trolls aside, just want to point out:

They don’t, but airlines started charging like 50% of the price of a ticket to “check” a bag, leading to people using larger carry-on bags, but being still limited by number of bags, would then have to keep the smaller amount of things they did need in the flight (or which cannot be checked) in that carryon

Honestly, that’s a good idea and should just be the default for everything.

PRobably against some kind of airline regulation too (or maybe FAs just being diplomatic made it up) but I’m pretty sure there’s some rule about everyone being in assigned seating at take off, and any seat changes an only happen after.

Wowair has done that before to me (required paying extra to reserve seats too), which we found out only after we boarded did not exist, i.e. we reserved seats 35a and 35b, and that row just didnt exist on the plane skipping from 34 to 36 (Which of course had been assigned. It ended up being a clusterfuck as noone’s…

Well the people asking aren’t always dicks, but the point of the article is, the person “refusing” to switch seats is never a dick.

Just want to note that you can distinguish between “kitchen screwups” and the good vs. bad service, and I assume that’s what they mean.

Tips are payment to the servers for service. The most important (if not only part) of service, is delivering food in a timely manner.

IF you’re equating it that way then there’s also no wage problem.