My lad still likes them and sells plenty. He just warns newbies first. Some folks get the extra gas and some either don’t or don’t eat them in high enough quantity to matter - not sure which.
Maybe that’s true where you live…but it’s not true here. Our state has some larger urban and suburban areas, but there are also many more smaller towns where the types of restaurants you list don’t exist at all. In my town, there is a Dunkin and that’s it for the fast casual places/chains. The rest of our restaurants are locally owned, or very small regional owned chains…and they all do a really good sit down luncheon business…when they are open.
I hope they can survive this pandemic. I don’t want the world to be covered with large chains only.
Around here, house for sale inventory is very low. The real estate friends I have say homes that are ON the market are selling very quickly. Interest rates are low…and some folks are ready to move.
Mayor of Boston cancelled all public events in Boston thru Labor Day. No parades, no festivals. Including Boston Pops 4th of July concert on the Esplanade. https://www.boston.gov/news/city-boston-suspend-parades-and-festivals-through-labor-day
Meanwhile, Northeastern announced an intention to return to on campus, in person instruction.
https://news.northeastern.edu/coronavirus/university-messages/our-path-forward/
A crappy flip I’ve been watching finally sold… after pending for like a month. Sell price was $50k over ask. Peanuts, of course, for someone paying over $1M for a house… but my jaw still dropped. I was expecting it to sell at least $100k under the listing price. I guess Amazon’s stock has been doing well.
Sometimes some random thing just hits you. I don’t know why this one hit me, but it brought me to tears.
The CDC released a list of the hospitals that got the most money from the CARES Act, which is pretty much the same as the hospitals hardest hit by covid-19. As you can imagine, at the top of the list are hospitals in New York and New Jersey.
Right there on the first page is the hospital in the town I grew up in, where my sister was born and where my grandmother died. Right there on page two is the small hospital right down the street from my parent’s independent living facility, where my dad died, where my mom made many visits in the last years of her life.
So many deaths. So much suffering. I don’t live in New Jersey any more, but my heart hurts.
@“Cardinal Fang” – there’s a blog making the rounds by a nurse talking about how horrendous the situation is in the hospital she works in–the hospital my son was born in. Yes, it really hits hard. I will have to look for that CDC list.
Edit: do you have a link, by any chance. having trouble finding it. TIA.
Interesting… Lebanon County in PA has just officially said they are moving to the next phase of reopening on Friday defying our governor.
I’m currently wondering how many other counties will follow suit.
I’m glad we have our own little corner of the state where most folks can’t find us.
I didn’t think anyone would actually want the list, but: https://data.cdc.gov/Administrative/Provider-Relief-Fund-COVID-19-High-Impact-Payments/b58h-s9zx/data
Here’s an observation that’s got me scratching my head. S19 started applying for summer jobs yesterday. We had very little hope considering the unemployment rate. An hour after he put in his first application he had a request for an interview from a retailer that’s considered essential. The interview was this morning and they made him a job offer on the spot. He starts next Wednesday. This was the quickest job search I’ve seen among my kids. It’s for full time at $14/hr for overnight restocking - no customer contact required. Wow.
@me29034 Essential retailers are adding thousands of employees. Glad your son got a job.
Doesn’t the increase in infections have to do with the recent increased testing capabilities? The state of Ohio is still rationing tests, and many individuals with Covid symptoms are still unable to get tested.
In one of his pressers, the governor said that the number of hospitalizations would be a better indicator to watch than the number of cases since the number of cases are expected to increase with an increase in testing capabilities. The number of hospitalizations each day has been trending down.
San Diego announced no Big Bay Boom on the 4th. They waited as long as they could before calling it off. My husband thinks they could still do it if they tell people not to congregate and I’m thinking, are you crazy? Impossible!
My daughter just spoke to a nurse in Albuquerque. Her hospital is swamped. The ICU is swamped. Every day they’re getting more and more people coming in, testing positive. Lots of medical staff testing positive, getting sick.
As numbers plateau in some areas, let’s not forget there is suffering elsewhere.
thanks, Fang!
Numbers are plateauing in the US as a whole. But with numbers plummeting in New York (yay!) it follows they have to be rising elsewhere.
So, on the list of most impacted hospitals: the hospital I was born at, the one my granddaughter was born at, the one my H as an attending at, the one he went to Med School at, the one my son was born at, etc. etc. etc.
This is heartbreaking.
If you want heartbreaking:
Last night I saw a calculation that of all the people who lived in nursing homes in New Jersey two months ago, over one of ten has now died of covid-19. (The calculation might be a little bit off, because they might have been including some other kinds of congregate living for elders in the numerator but not denominator, so it might really be 8% or 9% instead of over 10%, which I do not find comforting.)
We need more aggressive testing of people in nursing homes and people working there, better PPE, better pay/benefits for workers so they don’t have to work in more than one facility and transmit diseases, and better training and enforcement on infection control.
A chain of buffet restaurants which temporarily closed before government orders affecting restaurants announced that it will not reopen:
https://sandiego.eater.com/2020/5/7/21251275/souplantation-sweet-tomatoes-permanently-closing-san-diego-buffet-restaurant
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2020-05-07/souplantations-buffet-style-restaurants-closing-for-good-due-to-the-coronvirus
The self-serve buffet model may be hard to make work in the future, at least until there is an effective vaccine if there is a vaccine.
@WayOutWestMom might be able to best explain what’s happening there.