It's time for DC to shut down indoor dining again

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine where we'd be if every individual and small business had received a payment equivalent to stated income on 2019 tax filings, just to sit out 2020. Things could remain shuttered, but no one would be forced out of business. Essential services could be limited to the truly essential. Don't @ me with how expensive this would have been. These United States of America have a LOT of money and could afford this easily. Billionaires might have had to forego a few extra million in profits this year, however.

That’s not how it works unless you’re talking hiking up taxes.

The money is there. We've just made a choice as a society and government not to use it in this way. No one worried about future tax hikes when we spent trillions bombing places in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

DC also has billions in the rainy day fund.

[Anonymous]

According to DC’s contact tracing data, only 20% of people said they’d been to a restaurant in the previous two weeks. 25% said they’d been to a social gathering. Who knows if these people overlap though...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine where we'd be if every individual and small business had received a payment equivalent to stated income on 2019 tax filings, just to sit out 2020. Things could remain shuttered, but no one would be forced out of business. Essential services could be limited to the truly essential. Don't @ me with how expensive this would have been. These United States of America have a LOT of money and could afford this easily. Billionaires might have had to forego a few extra million in profits this year, however.

That’s not how it works unless you’re talking hiking up taxes.

The money is there. We've just made a choice as a society and government not to use it in this way. No one worried about future tax hikes when we spent trillions bombing places in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

DC also has billions in the rainy day fund.

Well. If that’s true, then yeah, I support this wholeheartedly!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine where we'd be if every individual and small business had received a payment equivalent to stated income on 2019 tax filings, just to sit out 2020. Things could remain shuttered, but no one would be forced out of business. Essential services could be limited to the truly essential. Don't @ me with how expensive this would have been. These United States of America have a LOT of money and could afford this easily. Billionaires might have had to forego a few extra million in profits this year, however.

That’s not how it works unless you’re talking hiking up taxes.

The money is there. We've just made a choice as a society and government not to use it in this way. No one worried about future tax hikes when we spent trillions bombing places in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

What you’re proposing is having the government just print trillions of dollars and releasing it into the economy.

If you can’t figure out what that would lead to, you probably failed economics and history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to DC’s contact tracing data, only 20% of people said they’d been to a restaurant in the previous two weeks. 25% said they’d been to a social gathering. Who knows if these people overlap though...

The city cannot realistically shut down social gatherings, not without some pretty draconian police measures.

The city *can* shut down indoor dining and drinking (and gyms, and churches).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to DC’s contact tracing data, only 20% of people said they’d been to a restaurant in the previous two weeks. 25% said they’d been to a social gathering. Who knows if these people overlap though...

The city cannot realistically shut down social gatherings, not without some pretty draconian police measures.

The city *can* shut down indoor dining and drinking (and gyms, and churches).

Sure they can. I just don’t think it’s going to have the effect you’re looking for. Since people are generally getting covid at home or at work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to DC’s contact tracing data, only 20% of people said they’d been to a restaurant in the previous two weeks. 25% said they’d been to a social gathering. Who knows if these people overlap though...

Got a link for those numbers?

[Anonymous]

Bars and churches should be closed. I'd like to see indoor dining closed but 25% capacity is a step in the right direction. My kids and many others have been home for 8 full months with no end in sight. People do not need to be at bars more than kids need to be in elementary school. Church can take place remotely. People can eat outdoors or pick up food from restaurants. We should be using our rainy day fund for economic relief and get priorities straight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bars and churches should be closed. I'd like to see indoor dining closed but 25% capacity is a step in the right direction. My kids and many others have been home for 8 full months with no end in sight. People do not need to be at bars more than kids need to be in elementary school. Church can take place remotely. People can eat outdoors or pick up food from restaurants. We should be using our rainy day fund for economic relief and get priorities straight.

Your poor children...

Sucks to be you.

[Anonymous]

I absolutely agree

[Anonymous]

14th Street was MOBBED this weekend with the nice weather and Biden victory celebrations. We drove as part of the victory parade and I hadn’t been to 14th Street in 6 months (we live in Glover Park). Every restaurant/bar was bursting at 2pm, it felt like pre-pandemic says.

[Anonymous]

DC hit one of its metrics to trigger a return to Phase 1 on Thursday: a seven-day average of 15.8 cases per 100,000 people, a threefold increase since July.

https://twitter.com/JulieZauzmer/status/1326908334990123009

Expect the city to hit more of these sad metrics in the next two weeks. Everyone needs to start preparing for another shutdown. It won't be as stringent as the one at the start of the pandemic, but the city needs to do something to get this under control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine where we'd be if every individual and small business had received a payment equivalent to stated income on 2019 tax filings, just to sit out 2020. Things could remain shuttered, but no one would be forced out of business. Essential services could be limited to the truly essential. Don't @ me with how expensive this would have been. These United States of America have a LOT of money and could afford this easily. Billionaires might have had to forego a few extra million in profits this year, however.

That’s not how it works unless you’re talking hiking up taxes.

The money is there. We've just made a choice as a society and government not to use it in this way. No one worried about future tax hikes when we spent trillions bombing places in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

What you’re proposing is having the government just print trillions of dollars and releasing it into the economy.

If you can’t figure out what that would lead to, you probably failed economics and history.

Borrowing money in order to save lives, keep people out of poverty/in jobs/spending money, and keep the economy from cratering/support a quick economic recovery is actually really, really likely to pay for itself in a stronger economy and tax revenues coming back quicker...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think going to 25% and see how it goes is better than a shut down.

I don’t see restaurants as an issue if people are sitting. It’s bars where people stand around that are a problem.

sitting just as problemmatic as standing. COVID knows no difference

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bars and churches should be closed. I'd like to see indoor dining closed but 25% capacity is a step in the right direction. My kids and many others have been home for 8 full months with no end in sight. People do not need to be at bars more than kids need to be in elementary school. Church can take place remotely. People can eat outdoors or pick up food from restaurants. We should be using our rainy day fund for economic relief and get priorities straight.

Your poor children...

Sucks to be you.

We will be alive. (DP) Sucks to be in the grave.