On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:21:06 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/16/2020 7:05 PM, Adorable Deplorable wrote:
On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:23:50 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:



My daughter just texted me. Her husband (my son-in-law) is an
electrician and has work booked ahead for almost a year.

Problem now is he can't pull the necessary permits because
most of the town halls and their permit offices are all
closing because of this virus thing.

My neighbor is the event manager at an upscale DC restaurant (The Monocle). The
DC mayor just closed all the restaurants in town. Not good.
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Freedom Isn't Free!



Same here. All restaurants closed for the next month at which time the
situation will be re-evaluated. Those that have traditionally offered
take-out can continue that but not if they hadn't offered it before.

Also, all schools, bars are closed, fitness centers limited to 25
people, theaters and any other public place that normally has large
numbers of people.

(probably will be reduced to 10 people or closed altogether).

One of the popular supermarkets up here just announced they will
open early starting this Thursday for seniors only from 6am to 7:30am

Gonna be interesting in how they enforce that. I can see fights
in the parking lot over toilet paper.

OK we have put this economy in a supersonic dive. Lets just hope they
decide to pull out before it is too late.

Did you hear, the British government is not doing this. Johnson says
herd immunity is the way to go and they are not shutting down
anything.

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-12/british-government-wants-uk-to-acquire-coronavirus-herd-immunity-writes-robert-peston/

One of the quotes they had on a NBC morning show was "We are not going
to destroy our economy over a virus that will still be around when we
come out of hiding". (or words to that effect)
They threw all their money at NHS.