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> All travel is essential to somebody I travelled to starbucks today. I’d hardly consider that essential.

blaser-waffle 7y ago
Aye, just got back from walking there. Pretty essential to doing IT for several hours, though, IMO. But OPs point stands -- unless you're working from home and never going out to eat / get groceries / not go crazy from cabin fever you have to travel somewhere
- logfromblammo 7y ago
  I haven't tasted coffee in a decade, and I'm doing just finezzzzzzzz....~ Restricting routine trips to just home-to-work, work-to-home, and large-scale resupply missions is still acceptable at the moment. Make use of your local grocery's picker service with delivery to the parking lot, if you can. Consider switching your dining-out trips to ordering via phone, fax, or electronic ordering system, and doing drive-through, carry-out, or parking-lot pickup. Pay electronically, in advance, instead of handling cash at the point-of-sale terminal. If you get cabin fever, and need to socialize, do it through screens. It is essential for Starbucks to serve customers in order for them to stay in business. You don't have to stop going. But you can put in your order via website or app; walk into the retail location only when it's ready; pick it up without speaking to, breathing on, or touching anyone; and then leave immediately. It is possible to minimize the duration and intensity of contact, without eliminating it entirely. It is better to be in contact with your regular friends, acquaintances, and business associates--that are all the same people every day--than to have a lot of transient contacts with complete strangers. It is slower to traverse a social network one connection at a time than to hit a lot of random, unconnected people all at once with a brodcast.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
What about to your job, if you don't have a job that you can do remotely? Employers generally don't like paying people who can't make it in to work, and it's hard to pay for food without money.
- iso1210 7y ago
  Even if employers were happy to pay the wages, most small employers aren't going to be able to keep going when incoming cashflow goes to zero I assume the U.S. government will be pumping money directly into the hands of small businesses and employees.
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
    You assume a hell of a lot.

Aye, just got back from walking there. Pretty essential to doing IT for several hours, though, IMO. But OPs point stands -- unless you're working from home and never going out to eat / get groceries / not go crazy from cabin fever you have to travel somewhere

logfromblammo 7y ago
I haven't tasted coffee in a decade, and I'm doing just finezzzzzzzz....~ Restricting routine trips to just home-to-work, work-to-home, and large-scale resupply missions is still acceptable at the moment. Make use of your local grocery's picker service with delivery to the parking lot, if you can. Consider switching your dining-out trips to ordering via phone, fax, or electronic ordering system, and doing drive-through, carry-out, or parking-lot pickup. Pay electronically, in advance, instead of handling cash at the point-of-sale terminal. If you get cabin fever, and need to socialize, do it through screens. It is essential for Starbucks to serve customers in order for them to stay in business. You don't have to stop going. But you can put in your order via website or app; walk into the retail location only when it's ready; pick it up without speaking to, breathing on, or touching anyone; and then leave immediately. It is possible to minimize the duration and intensity of contact, without eliminating it entirely. It is better to be in contact with your regular friends, acquaintances, and business associates--that are all the same people every day--than to have a lot of transient contacts with complete strangers. It is slower to traverse a social network one connection at a time than to hit a lot of random, unconnected people all at once with a brodcast.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago

What about to your job, if you don't have a job that you can do remotely? Employers generally don't like paying people who can't make it in to work, and it's hard to pay for food without money.

iso1210 7y ago
Even if employers were happy to pay the wages, most small employers aren't going to be able to keep going when incoming cashflow goes to zero I assume the U.S. government will be pumping money directly into the hands of small businesses and employees.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
  You assume a hell of a lot.