I really wonder

[I_UndergroundPanther]

Ever hear of the bandwagon technique in advertising? Where hype is created about a product by implying everyone is buying it so you should too,bullshit..

I wonder how many people really are that desperate for haircuts,to go out to eat, to a casino to the movies ,just to pretend all is normal again? How many people don't care they'll risk thier own lives their family and all the people that work at these jobs to do this stuff.

I'd like to know who's unable to function if they can't go to a sit down restaurant?

Because if you ask me the "desperation" routine amidst the cries of open up NOW or else seems like pure bullshit to me.

How much of this is hype?

I'm not including brain dead magats in this question.

[cilla4progress]

1. We went to a newly reopened socially distancing local restaurant

here last week. All employees were masked. Hardly any milling around customers were.

Wasn't worth it.

Wev‘e done curbside once or twice. Our home is too far out to pick up and eat at home.

Guess I'll just cook!

[Mike 03]

2. The stakes are much higher here than in, say, selecting a brand of soda

Wuhan, China tried to incentivize going out and acting like everything was normal and it didn't work very well.

I feel sorry for people who are forced back to work. But of the people who are able to choose whether or not to remain on lockdown, I think in that group we'll see self-selection, and that intelligent, knowledgeable folks will make the choice to remain in state as close to lockdown as they can reasonably achieve.

With the economy so uncertain, I'm skeptical of the talking point about "pent up demand." How many people have learned over the last four months that they don't need as much as they thought they did?

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Here in S Alabama, it's very disheartening to see restuarants with lines out the doors

waiting to be seated. All the while, we are at higher levels of Covid cases than at any time.

https://www.al.com/coronavirus/data/

[unc70]

4. I am tempted by one thing

Soft shell crabs. I grew up on the coast and love them. This is the season for them, and so far I have resisted going somewhere for them. They really aren't a great takeout item. Haven't found anywhere locally doing crispy critter sandwiches.

I'm a pretty good cook, have done takeout a couple of times. We also get a variety of food trucks that set up in the neighborhood -- one or two a week.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. I have trouble with soft shell crabs

They look cute all tucked in. I'll turn the sandwich around and eat it backwards..😜

[customerserviceguy]

6. There's a natural human tendency

to try to figure out why something bad happening to someone else will not happen to you. I'd venture to guess that most of the desperation folks don't know someone who has died of C-19. It's easy for them to dismiss it as a "big city problem", or "something that happens to people who don't look like me".

[Brainfodder]

7. All about the rich needing their income flow?

They don't give a hoot about us, just our money?

Civil society is probably broken?

The stock market so bloated, it's pretty amazing how that toy of the wealthy is being manipulated?