OldTimeHockey said:
Nik said:
OldTimeHockey said:
As for the "why are strip clubs open" comment....why not? Just because I don't necessarily agree with them, doesn't mean that the business owner doesn't have the right to earn his living.
It's not a moral objection, it's a practical one. Social distancing seems slightly more realistic in restaurants than in strip clubs and contact tracing is more effective in situations where everyone isn't giving a fake name.
Except strip clubs aren't the only things open that aren't following their "safe reopening plans"
I didn't give an exhaustive list of things that I think we need to prioritize, this is just a Leafs forum after all and I am not an expert in the field, but I am taking my cues from cautious epidemiologists and virologists that I have seen make fairly correct calls on the trajectory of this virus.
At the end of the day the current policies and guidelines aren't keeping the virus in check. Regarding class sizes, I don't have the answers. If I did I probably wouldn't be writing in this forum right now. I understand there are logistical issues, but the only options we have are to find what's working elsewhere and do our best to implement that here because what we're doing currently, as a whole, clearly isn't enough based on the current rates of transmission. This whole pandemic is essentially large series' of logistical issues but we aren't the only ones dealing with this. And the reality is tough policy decisions will have to be made and if that also means hard policy decisions, like closing or highly limiting indoor capacity for bars and restaurants and strip clubs then so be it. There are calls by some to try and support those businesses while at limited capacity so that more crucial areas of the economy can stay open. If we do nothing there is a good chance we start seeing exponential growth. Once that happens and is sustained long enough runaway transmission either locks us down or we have potential for what happened in New York to happen here or both. Each of those scenarios would be far more costly than using whatever policy levers we have right now like limiting certain settings (not just private ones) to lower capacities etc.