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> It seems obviously wasteful to keep such businesses open where most the paying customers won't be showing up during a pandemic anyways In Sweden people still
by kalleboo 6y ago
> It seems obviously wasteful to keep such businesses open where most the paying customers won't be showing up during a pandemic anyways
In Sweden people still seem happy to go out to bars and restaurants, even in the middle of a pandemic. It's non-stop work for the government to shut down venues that are crowded beyond the allowed covid19 congestion regulation.
This whole "even if restaurants and bars were open, nobody would go to them" narrative just doesn't bear out in reality.
We're seeing the same thing in the UK now as well.
- pengaru 6y agoYour comment is in direct contradiction with TFA, did you read it?
- kalleboo 6y agoI did read it (and insinuating I didn’t is against the rules). Nowhere does it have any proof of restaurants losing all their customers. It says that economists predict a contraction (that hasn’t happened yet), that consumer spending at one point was down 25%, and that the manufacturing sector had to shut down due to supply chain issues. I never said that restaurants have lost customers, just that there is still a very significant amount of people willing to go out anyway. The Google Mobility report shows that retail & recreation (which includes restaurants) for Sweden is currently down only 1%!!! (workplaces -40%, transit -25%)