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There has to be a trade-off between "social distancing" and being a productive human being which can afford to buy food and medicine and can go to the store to

• lathiat 7y ago
  as stated maybe that sounds true, but you can visit a crowded store once with one person and then feed a family of multiple people for a week (perhaps 21 meals). Multiple people have to visit a restaurant once for each 1 meal. So on the whole it would seem to scale much better if 1 person per household visits the store once per week, and the store should also not be super "crowded" if everyone is doing the same.
  • lukasm 7y ago
    sure, but in practice that ain't gonna happen. My point was about an average trip to a restaurant vs average shopping. If we are talking about the scenario with the minimal possible risk a restaurant could still beat the shop. You are going to drive through or pick up a pizza that you order online, so you spend a few minutes per meal with a limited number of people, say, for 21 meals, you have contacted 50 people. No need to touch trolleys, bags, boxes of pasta that people sneezed on. At home you reheat the pizza in the oven to kill the viruses. > The Institute of Transportation Engineers estimates that one Walmart super center receives 10,000 car visits per day