Anyone else dining outside on patios? I’m watching some of my favorite restaurants go under and it’s killing me. Thinking of doing sushi outside on a very spacious patio immediately when they open.
Indonesia coffin punishment abandoned
Indonesia is one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus in South-East Asia, and the authorities have been coming up with some creative ways to encourage people to wear their masks.
But punishing mask-refusers by making them lie in an open coffin is one tactic that has proved to be short-lived. It was introduced on Wednesday but abandoned by Friday after an intense public backlash, the BBC’s Jerome Wirawan reports.
The punishment was intended as an alternative to a $17 fine or community service, which usually involves cleaning public facilities, our correspondent says. One official said the aim was to get the culprit to “contemplate their actions because with Covid-19 there is a risk of them being laid inside a real coffin”.
But internet users criticised the plan, with one, Situr, pointing out: “People are not scared of coffins, even couples are getting intimate in the graveyard."
One man who did go in the coffin for not wearing the mask indicated to local media that it was a quickest and cheapest option.
That’s not a thing
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TIL that Xennials is a thing.
Also, Prague is facing covid restrictions specific to that city (it has the 2nd highest active infections per capita over the last week). New rules:
-Masks mandatory in shops starting Wednesday and in buildings that contain them (i.e. malls)
-Starting September 14th, masks will be mandatory in common areas of schools
-Restaurants and bars will be closed from midnight to 6 AM
This is on top of the other places where masks are mandatory:
-Public transport
-Offices
-Polling stations
-Health care and social service facilities
-Retirement and nursing homes
-Indoor events with more than 100 people
In other news, schools with an active outbreak won’t have to shut down. The only people in quarantine will be students in that class and the teacher teaching it. I’m sure this won’t be a disaster /s
It’s amazing that my mother lives in New York and thinks that the entire city has gone to hell. She posted some videos of boarded up buildings with some guy saying, “This is the New York they don’t want to show you!”
I mean yeah they were because the stores were closing indefinitely due to covid and had no other way to protect the stores from criminals. So of course they were boarded up but she showed it like it was happening right now.
Fucking deplorables.
Yes I do it every week or so at my favorite spots, places I would be hurt if they went under. Haven’t felt uncomfortable at any of them, I even see some people wearing masks at the table before they get drinks/food which is pretty surprising
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Nope.
I just order takeout.
It supports them financially and both them and me health-wise.
Zero reason to eat at a restaurant during a pandemic. Just get it to go.
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I have a few times, but I’m in the state with the lowest per capita incidence.
If I lived in a hotspot (or even mediumspot), I probably would just do take out.
My guess is that we are about to be at nearly 100 percent utilization (as much as is possible) with only 30 percent mitigation (masks basically doing all the heavy lifting), which is going to put us in a worst case scenario for potential hosts at a time where there is already an extraordinarily high amount of cases.
I said this about 7 weeks ago but Trump won on COVID-19. For huge swaths of this country, the pandemic is ‘over’ and it won’t be until reality slaps a lot of people in the face that we all get back in our holes. I’m much more concerned IHME is predicting this amount of deaths knowing how comically low they’ve been throughout the pandemic.
People are going to be scrapping to get whatever work they can starting this month to try to stave off the executioner. A lot of people were smart enough to realize that depending on this government to do anything to help them shouldn’t have been a thing. The people who have already been in poverty most likely did not depend on the government to get them through this. The people who depended on the government not to fail them are probably people who made $40k-80k as families who once had ‘good’ secure jobs that have been lost forever due to the pandemic. For those types, there is a severe competition problem for jobs where a lot of ‘mediocre’ people are going to get shut out of whatever is out there.
Sorry to say, but things are pretty much over for the pandemic in the court of public opinion. For weeks, we’ve been the crazy ones, and day by day, the gulf widens.
This is why public health is an important function of government. Who knew if you had the leader of 350 million people tell them every single day, day after day, week after week, that something doesn’t exist, people start believing it. Even otherwise decent folks eventually buckle from the fatigue.
It’s done, and we aren’t going back. There will be no more large scale lock-downs. Everyone has had ample time to assess the situation, and it is every man, woman, and child for themselves at this point. US society has spoken through their duly elected leaders. And frankly, they are pretty much doing what most people want at this point.
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That makes me a Xoomer.
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There will be lockdowns again if it gets really really bad. Really bad is probably bodies piling up outside of hospitals across the country. As of right now, there’s zero appetite for another lockdown and the government has basically said to anyone struggling that they’re on their own until Trump’s gone and Mitch is gone. And that if they don’t go, well, it’s best to go ahead and get used to it now or something.
Just yesterday, the star of one of the biggest movies coming out next year tested positive after just 3 days of shooting. If a big star dies from an on set or in bubble exposure of COVID-19 (on a production shooting in the U.S.), the entire industry will shut down overnight while they ‘evaluate’ things. That will wake people up in the industry to the idea that they should be spending the most to create the safest conditions and developing brand new testing technologies that can be applied to the world over that allows sets to proceed basically normally outside of needing backup crew for those who test positive. The problem, and it’s a big one, is the industry wants this over. They don’t want to tell people you’re not going to be able to see a movie safely for 2 years. Until they say we won’t get back to normal until it’s the proper time from a health standpoint, they won’t move toward actually dealing with the pandemic instead of reacting to it…much like our current government.
Our industry is already not great at safety over money in the best of times, and we aren’t even remotely in those now. About the only positive in this first 6 months of the pandemic for the industry is that we’ve ‘solved’ some tech issues when something comes up like this. The kind of safety procedures that are being implemented on sets are very unpleasant, which will make an already unpleasant experience much worse and much more expensive.
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You’re overgeneralizing from your own experience. I’m in California under a fairly tight lock down and almost everyone is wearing a mask, distancing, not doing anything indoors, etc.
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I think you are right about people mitigating.
However, I also wonder if there isn’t a fatigue factor. People will mitigate once it gets bad in an area once. Will they a second time?
They did it once in March/April while not bad in their area, then again recently when they became a hot spot.
Will they do it again a third time? Not sure.
Extras casting posts have been on the rise in Atlanta in the last couple weeks and I saw something I’ve never seen before. For one production, they are looking for a core group of extras to work the entire run of filming. That’s normal. Cool gig if you can do it. Here’s weird thing: in addition to booking certain extras on any given day, some extras will be on-call at home and get paid a half-rate. I would assume it’s so they can minimize the number of extras both on set and just sitting around, especially if there’s a chance not everybody gets used. So they will pay people to sit at home and maybe, possibly go to set.
I wouldn’t mind getting paid a few bucks to sit at home.
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Like we’ve said before it’s gottta get personal. My rural Wisconsin son’s in-law family has a lot of olds and other comorbidiities. They are definitely Trumpers in general. Yet someone in town croaked and now there are no more large family gatherings and masks are expected and worn.
I will say people will wear masks now which is a HUGE help.
But people will NOT forgo their holidays with family. Lots of gatherings in November/December plus college kids all traveling back home.
A lot of those deaths will occur in January-early February tho.