Remarkably, it actually seems to be safer to be an Amazon employee - for the U.S. it’s 0.0033% of the population dead, vs. o.0008% of Amazon employees dead. It’s actually an order of magnitude lower deaths at Amazon than the U.S. as a whole.
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Yes, the issue is that they had 2 choices:
I just want to note that it’s not like N95s come in sizes 0-12
Well I think the main thing is movie theaters are still actively barring their choices. By enforcing the theater-to-digital window, they’re grabbing a time-limited monopoly, to force people to be their customers if they value timeliness of seeing a movie.
Part of that is just because that’s what you’re used to, because that used to be only option.
Endgame for that one moment when Captain America picked up the shield, or when everyone came back, is...probably the one single scene in recent memory I can remember that being a thing. And even then, I’d’ve gotten at least half of the same experience just having a tonne of friends over.
Well there is an experiencial part of it, but that’s not going to beat out convenience (and you’d be surprised how much of the value you place on the experiencial aspect is just because that’s what you were used to back in the day when it was the only option).
Yep, I think we’ll see an increase in those fancy theaters, with reclining seating, drinks, meals etc. - make a whole evening out of it type of thing.
Just because they needed to do that in the past, when they couldn’t try VOD - doesn’t mean they can’t do that in the future, once that barrier’s no longer in place.
Yep not to mention that, (1) absolutely no leverage atm since AMC theaters aren’t open anyway - so what’s the threat from refusing to play Universal films in closed theaters? and (2) given that noone’s going to theaters for the next year or so, there’s a good chance AMC will just fold by then, and Universal can just…
I think part of it is that they’re just hard to buy and expensive.
That still helps because even though it’s more crowded, if you can make one trip every 2 weeks and getting everything you need, rather than going twice a week or more, that still cuts your contact points.
I think part of it is that virus particles die very quickly. They survive when they’re in a moist environment, i.e. in the water droplet, but once dried out they die.
Yes, there does have to be more education on them, but having everyone wear them (even if a minority wear them improperly) still is better than nothing. I.e. we don’t tell everyone condoms are useless because they only have an 87% success rate because 10% or w/e people don’t use them right - that’s still 80%+…
You could, but like everything in life, it’s all about probability. You can still be killed in a traffic accident while stone cold sober, in a volvo, and seatbelted. But that doesn’t mean your chances are not cut down significantly from driving with a .4 BAC in a Ford Pinto without seatbelts on.
Another thing is, how do you know that it is able-bodied young people using up the services?
The problem isn’t individuals, and it’s not fair to call people assholes for, quite frankly, just doing what they were told to do.
They went further than your proposal and banned all kids from school too!
You mean like the immuno-compromised cancer survivor grandmother who just HAD to order that pack of spam from Amazon so that she could eat to survive, without also getting doomed by being coughed on at the grocery store?