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I wonder about the effectiveness of “herd immunity” or at least anti-bodies and the various new mutations I hear about almost daily. I have what I think is int
by throwaway_kufu 6y ago
I wonder about the effectiveness of “herd immunity” or at least anti-bodies and the various new mutations I hear about almost daily.
I have what I think is interesting anecdotal data regarding restaurant works. 1st I live in Miami Beach where it’s essentially been spring break for over a month.
Ocean drive has been blocked off since pretty early on in the shutdown with the city giving the restaurants pretty large swaths of the street for outdoor seating. These have restaurants have pretty much been at full capacity since the election if not a little before.
Even though they have been operating what would be full capacity meaning fully staffed, I noticed in the last week many of them now have hiring signs that all read “for all positions”. In my mind this can only mean these fully staffed and operational restaurants must have had larger outbreak amount staff recently. While I don’t know if it’s true, I’m left thinking that mass outbreaks is exactly what happened, meaning once a give restaurant staff is infected the restaurants are simply replacing them with new staff which will subject these new batches of employees to a mass outbreak and some point. It it turns out to be true, it’s essentially the people forced into these temporary jobs where they will inevitably get corona just to be discarded and rinse/repeat all because people need income they will willingly subject themselves to that kind of environment...it really feels like im watching a dystopia of the haves and have nots, and while it’s always been the case to a degree, the scale and stakes are deeply disturbing.
- nitrogen 6y agoOn the other hand it could just be they are expecting even more business and need the extra help. One would hope.
- throwawayboise 6y agoThat and restaurant work sucks. Pay is low, turnover is high. Not surprising that restaurants are almost all constantly hiring, if they are doing enough business to be open.
- throwaway_kufu 6y agoAll generally true, but restaurants on Ocean Drive are not the norm. They usually don’t advertise positions, and I’ve lived here for nearly 40 years and never seen signs posted advertising hiring all positions.
- throwaway_kufu 6y agoWhat I’m saying is they have been at max capacity for months and have had full staffs for months (maybe December/January). So even with spring breakers they don’t need more staff, it’s their wait lists that are growing not their capacity and need for staff. I was a server and worked “in the industry” so I’m familiar with the high turnover of restaurants, but restaurants on Ocean drive are a little different in that respect. It’s one thing for a restaurant on Ocean Drive to to be looking to fill a position or two...usually they won’t need to advertise. It’s very unusual and another thing entirely for multiple restaurants on Ocean Drive to have signs posted outside advertising they are hiring for every single position (servers, busers, hosts, bartenders, cooks).