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Coronavirus, coming to a restaurant near you

GreatNews2night

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How two uniquely American issues could make the coronavirus worse

With the absence of paid sick leave for most low-level restaurant workers including those who do food preparation, it is guaranteed that people with the coronavirus will come to work and will be sneezing and coughing on your food. Another problem is that these workers often lack health insurance or are under-insured with plans that have large deductibles, so they are not likely to go see a doctor and get tested.

Do you want a side of coronavirus with your steak?
 
The average age of Chinese who died due to corono virus is 77.

Isolate your grandma until there's a vaccine. Bring her groceries and leave them at the end of the driveway for her to get after you leave.
 
How two uniquely American issues could make the coronavirus worse

With the absence of paid sick leave for most low-level restaurant workers including those who do food preparation, it is guaranteed that people with the coronavirus will come to work and will be sneezing and coughing on your food. Another problem is that these workers often lack health insurance or are under-insured with plans that have large deductibles, so they are not likely to go see a doctor and get tested.

Do you want a side of coronavirus with your steak?
Unfortunately, restaurant workers are the least likely to have adequate health insurance and paid time off. So your narrative on communicative disease transmission might be accurate.
 
The average age of Chinese who died due to corono virus is 77.

Isolate your grandma until there's a vaccine. Bring her groceries and leave them at the end of the driveway for her to get after you leave.
Carrier =/= fatality
 
Unfortunately, restaurant workers are the least likely to have adequate health insurance and paid time off. So your narrative on communicative disease transmission might be accurate.

He’ll send his cousin in to cover!

The average age of Chinese who died due to corono virus is 77.

Isolate your grandma until there's a vaccine. Bring her groceries and leave them at the end of the driveway for her to get after you leave.

I never thought I’d be so lazy as to buy groceries from Amazon!
 
Unfortunately, restaurant workers are the least likely to have adequate health insurance and paid time off. So your narrative on communicative disease transmission might be accurate.

All cooks and servers go to work unless deathly ill. They can't afford to take a day off. Taking a day off means the phone/light bill doesn't get paid.
 
The average age of Chinese who died due to corono virus is 77.

Isolate your grandma until there's a vaccine. Bring her groceries and leave them at the end of the driveway for her to get after you leave.

Much higher risk if you have diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, or a respiratory condition. A lot more than just the elderly are at risk.
 
How two uniquely American issues could make the coronavirus worse

With the absence of paid sick leave for most low-level restaurant workers including those who do food preparation, it is guaranteed that people with the coronavirus will come to work and will be sneezing and coughing on your food. Another problem is that these workers often lack health insurance or are under-insured with plans that have large deductibles, so they are not likely to go see a doctor and get tested.

Do you want a side of coronavirus with your steak?

Do you want a side of fear mongering to go with your fear mongering?
 
All cooks and servers go to work unless deathly ill. They can't afford to take a day off. Taking a day off means the phone/light bill doesn't get paid.

This is one of the complications caused by allowing illegals to prevent labor shortages so as to keep wage and benefits down.
 
This is one of the complications caused by allowing illegals to prevent labor shortages so as to keep wage and benefits down.

Could be. But, most the undocumented people I've worked with over the years are minor players in the restaurant. Bussers/Dishers. Jobs people don't want to do anyway.
 
He’ll send his cousin in to cover!



I never thought I’d be so lazy as to buy groceries from Amazon!
Where your groceries are brought to you by a guy that's an uninsured contractor that is making starvation wages after you factor in vehicle depreciation.

There's really no way out of this. We're all going to sink or swim together, to some generality.
 
How two uniquely American issues could make the coronavirus worse

With the absence of paid sick leave for most low-level restaurant workers including those who do food preparation, it is guaranteed that people with the coronavirus will come to work and will be sneezing and coughing on your food. Another problem is that these workers often lack health insurance or are under-insured with plans that have large deductibles, so they are not likely to go see a doctor and get tested.

Do you want a side of coronavirus with your steak?

Or a good manager seeing the employee is not well sends them home.

Got to ask you, what makes this any different than the regular flu season. Same workers , different virus.

Bunch of scare BS from the media.
 
All cooks and servers go to work unless deathly ill. They can't afford to take a day off. Taking a day off means the phone/light bill doesn't get paid.
Yes, I'm well aware.
 
All cooks and servers go to work unless deathly ill. They can't afford to take a day off. Taking a day off means the phone/light bill doesn't get paid.

Especially waffle house employees.
 
The average age of Chinese who died due to corono virus is 77.

Isolate your grandma until there's a vaccine. Bring her groceries and leave them at the end of the driveway for her to get after you leave.

:lamo:lamo:lamo

That's one way of doing it.
 
How two uniquely American issues could make the coronavirus worse

With the absence of paid sick leave for most low-level restaurant workers including those who do food preparation, it is guaranteed that people with the coronavirus will come to work and will be sneezing and coughing on your food. Another problem is that these workers often lack health insurance or are under-insured with plans that have large deductibles, so they are not likely to go see a doctor and get tested.

Do you want a side of coronavirus with your steak?

lol, that sneezing on your food happens all the time, gross. But there's not a thing you can do. Except not go out to eat. And if you do, don't think about it. :) Ever.
 
Or a good manager seeing the employee is not well sends them home.

Got to ask you, what makes this any different than the regular flu season. Same workers , different virus.

Bunch of scare BS from the media.
Answer: A significantly higher death rate, no vaccine, and of course the unknown variables.

Your point is fair, but until the unknowns get tied-down no one wants to end-up in trouble (read: sick or dead).

As to "media B.S.", I must point-out the markets & Fed don't seem to think this is B.S. Today seems to have provided a decent Dow bounce, so we shall see if Friday was a floor.
 
This is one of the complications caused by allowing illegals to prevent labor shortages so as to keep wage and benefits down.

Yes, it's much better to have your steak sneezed on by a legal immigrant.
 
Yes, it's much better to have your steak sneezed on by a legal immigrant.

actually , yes it would be, because its easier to track a citizen or legal immigrant for quarantine and testing purposes, and that's just ONE reason.
 
lol, that sneezing on your food happens all the time, gross. But there's not a thing you can do. Except not go out to eat. And if you do, don't think about it. :) Ever.
:mrgreen:

There used to be an old saw: "Never look in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant"

As someone who loves to frequent Chinatown dives where little English is spoken, and having occasionally glanced past the swinging doors, I think I agree.

Then there's dive diners ...
 
:mrgreen:

There used to be an old saw: "Never look in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant"

As someone who loves to frequent Chinatown dives where little English is spoken, and having occasionally glanced past the swinging doors, I think I agree.

Then there's dive diners ...

:lamo:lamo:lamo

You keep that **** up and I'll never eat out again. :)
 
Where your groceries are brought to you by a guy that's an uninsured contractor that is making starvation wages after you factor in vehicle depreciation.

There's really no way out of this. We're all going to sink or swim together, to some generality.

Yup. That we are.
 
Especially waffle house employees.

Don't say that. That's where I go on mornings when I go out for a grits fix. :shock:

At least at Waffle House they are out in the open so you can watch them sneeze in your breakfast.
 
Nature is the great balancer. It will point out all the flaws in our greedy human systems.

The way coronaviruses work is that they kill off the weak first, like the immune compromised, very young and very old. Then they mutate and go after healthy adult populations. That's what SARS did, and there is evidence that's what covid19 is doing. In Italy they are reporting that some people who recovered from the infection are now re-infected, meaning the immunity didn't last. That's a really fast turnaround time.

The other thing that SARS and Covid19 have in common is that they require intensive medical resources to rescue those infected. Viral pneumonia usually means assisted breathing machines and expensive respiratory steroids. Even if you have healthcare benefits, it may be difficult to get to an ICU if the infection numbers climb high. Hospitals have limited resources.

Lack of any real public health care would ensure a reduced survival rate and a greater opportunity for the virus to mutate. A hand-to-mouth working class population ensures spread of the disease.

The only thing the U.S. can really do to avoid calamity is prevention. Prevent people from getting infected in the first place. So far, dear leader is downplaying it for economic reasons. Meanwhile, the economic will crash twice as hard if people remain unconcerned and twice as many people get infected.
 
Don't say that. That's where I go on mornings when I go out for a grits fix. :shock:

At least at Waffle House they are out in the open so you can watch them sneeze in your breakfast.

I just threw up in my mouth. Thanks :2sick1:
 
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