Most of it makes sense. I just want to call out this:

but at the same time, if noone goes to get the cruller - that donut shop will close down. 

Considering this is the alternative to mandatory quarantine in a facility - sure try that

Well actually, publicly funded healthcare realllyy matters when you don’t have any income.

Part of the pre-emptive concern is that your state only has “11-20 confirmed cases”, probably because they’ve only managed to test “11-20" people. When there’s such woefully undertesting, while all signs point to there being far more people infected - everyone just has to assume the worst.

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.

I think the big point here that should be focused on is not that more highways = more traffic, but to look at the reasons why there’s more traffic and tackle them directly. One thing is that they can’t show that adding highways caused the traffic, or that traffic wouldn’t have gotten even worse without adding them.

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

Well for one, you’re wrong about the percentage cut. Uber/Lyft take a 20-25% cut.