Bison06

This is really naive thinking man, I’m sorry to say. A business can’t adapt with both hands tied behind its back.

In Minnesota, bars and restaurants were forced closed(take out only) on March 16th. They were allowed in an extremely limited capacity to re-open on June 10th. Closed Article: https://twincities.eater.com/2020/3/17/21183222/all-minnesota-bars-restaurants-ordered-closed-governor-tim-walz Opening article: https://patch.com/minnesota/southwestminneapolis/livestream-walz-announce-next-steps-minnesota-covid-19 To this day restaurants have limitation on them that make them significantly less profitable if profitable at all in many cases. Some of the best restaurants in the Minneapolis area have closed permanently. Edit: I should add, many restaurants chose not to stay open during the “take out only” phase because there is no money in take out for many fine dining establishments. People aren’t going to pay $80 for a filet at manny’s you have it taste like junk by the time they get it home.

I'm not sure how much you know about small businesses, but this is absolutely not the case. Most small businesses are just like most lower income households. They are just scraping by, especially restaurants, even the really successful ones. Being asked to close your business for months and then when you do come back having a capacity reduction mandated on you is a death sentence. I bartended in college and got to know our GM pretty well to the point where I was aware of the finances of the bar/restaurant. If we missed the revenue from one weekend a month we couldn't make ends meet. Just one weekend. Imagine closing for 2-3 months.

I suggest we do what we've done since the beginning of time. Isolate yourself if you are vulnerable and if you are actively sick stay out of public places and/or limit your exposure to others. Wash your hands, use good hygiene when coughing or sneezing. This is what we've always done and now we've come full circle on Covid too. We over-reacted on a massive scale and people's lives were ruined and/or stolen from them in cases of suicide and murder rates this year. It disgusts me that nobody will ever admit that and take responsibility for the destruction they've unleashed on our society.

So you admit we have garbage tests yet defend making life changing decisions based on the outcome of those tests?

And those closures have for the most part been drawn right on political lines. Obviously hurricanes and covid aren't a perfect analogy, but picture this: If you didn't watch the news in the last 6 months, there are parts, a lot of parts, of our country that wouldn't have any idea there is some sort of virus. Their lives, in some cases, have been devastated by something that never actually happened and wouldn't have happened. That's fear driven by a political agenda, nothing else.

A better analogue to Covid would be if a business in an area that isn't hit by a hurricane is forced to close and go bankrupt because a different area of the country is hit by a hurricane.

It's actually quite impressive the mental gymnastics that can be done to blame something on Trump these days.

Serious question as I’m curious, does this news open anyone’s minds to the possibility that there have been many such instances of false positives throughout this? And put the actual magnitude of this pandemic in question?

There is not one bit of evidence to suggest the WHO has a test that is better. WHO hasn’t exactly been a beacon of reliability and transparency through all of this.

You can’t seriously be blaming this on Trump. Are you? Come on. He’s done some things that aren’t ideal, but how can he be to blame for people developing a test that isn’t accurate?

I’m sure this is the first time, nothing to worry about.

Why are all of the people I know in Minnesota going to Wisconsin for their weekend get always if the restrictions are the same?

What's your point? You positioned Biden as a choir boy, I made no such statement about Trump so I'm not required to defend his record. I knew exactly what he was when I voted for him.

Exactly. Nobody in the political game is clean, these are all awful people that none of us would even consider being personal friends with.

Maybe instead of the sex between two consenting adults you'd just utilize your political influence illegally to get your son a high paying job he has zero qualifications to have.

If I handed you a million dollars would you be a billionaire someday?

If only there were a way to look back over 40-50 years to look at a persons career and see what a politicians priorities are so we wouldn’t fall prey to fancy, nice sounding, professional speech writing and professionally coached orators.

And... You claim he isn’t re-electable as he’s gaining in polls during the DNC. If America felt that Biden’s speeches were as effective as you seem to then the opposite effect would be happening.

What world do you live in? Trump is gaining in the polls lately.

If Biden wins you’ll see a president out of the spotlight more than any in history. Just look at his campaign.

Zero chance Biden will debate Trump.

Isn’t that interesting that she isn’t ok when the protesting comes to her neighborhood.

Wouldn’t that be awful to eat some noodle soup and catch up on Netflix.

I have no problem with people voting for Biden to get rid of Trump, makes sense if you're looking for something, anything other than Trump. But can anyone who plans to vote for Biden genuinely say they like him as a candidate and the policy changes he'll bring with him?