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   From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com   
      
   COVID prohibitions should all be based on the principles of Employee and   
   Consumer   
   protections.  Firefighters have to put their lives in danger.  The general   
   principle of employment law is the work ought not be unnecessarily dangerous,   
   injurious, painful, or unsanitary/poisonous.  If people had money so they   
   didn't   
   have to work, perhaps you could let them make their own decisions.  As they   
   have   
   to work or die, you have to stop them from being criminally exploited.  The   
   other   
   side of that coin is taking their job away, which means you have to provide   
   them   
   with an education and ability to find new employment.   
      
   As for Consumers: Advisement, Marketing, Advertising, and Product Labeling   
   should   
   be required and regulated.  Prohibition has no place for Consumers.   
      
   "The Congress shall have Power To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and   
   among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes." - U.S. Constitution,   
   Article I, Section 8, Clause 3   
      
   "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or   
   prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or   
   of   
   the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition   
   the   
   Government for a redress of grievances." - U.S. Constitution, 1st Amendment   
      
      
   The restaurant industry is almost $1 Trillion in Sales Revenues, and employs   
   10%   
   of the workforce:   
      
   United States Restaurant Industry: (From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)   
   "The US restaurant industry was projected at $899 billion in sales for 2020 by   
   the   
   National Restaurant Association, the main trade association for the industry in   
   the United States.  An estimated 99% of companies in the industry are   
   family-owned   
   small businesses with fewer than 50 employees.  The industry as a whole as of   
   February of 2020 employed more than 15 million people, representing 10% of the   
   workforce directly.  It is the nation's second largest private employer and the   
   third largest employer overall.  It indirectly employed close to *another* 10%   
   when dependent businesses such as food producers, trucking, and delivery   
   services   
   were factored in, according to Ohio restaurateur Britney Ruby Miller.  In   
   Delaware   
   and Massachusetts, one in ten workers is employed in the restaurant industry.    
   In   
   North Carolina, 11% of workers are employed by the industry.  In Texas, 12% of   
   workers were employed by the industry as of 2016.   
      
   $899 billion: Was restaurant industry's projected sales in 2020.   
   /$22,321 Billion Total U.S. GDP = 4.028% GDP   
      
   The effect of the 2020 coronavirus epidemic was in March of 2020 projected to   
   be   
   $225 billion in losses."   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_restaurant_industry   
      
      
   Waiters and busboys don't produce equity - so why don't we just pay them to   
   stay   
   at home;   
      
   And switch to all take-out.   
      
   The restaurant will still sell as much food by take-out.  People still need to   
   eat.   
      
   The restaurant will be able to get rid of dinning room costs, and thereby turn   
   more a profit or reduce prices, as people are forced to not dine in.   
      
   People eating and drinking, and talking with their masks off at restaurants and   
   commercial parties, are the ones certainly spreading COVID.  Commercial indoor   
   entertainment which requires masks off, should probably be stopped in every   
   State.   
     People talking and socializing, face-to-face, while eating and drinking with   
   their masks off, are likely spewing spit in each other's faces.  (A drive-in   
   theater, with a drive-thru restaurant, would be better though, and as to a   
   comparison to the office...).  This is entirely stupid for entertainment.  The   
   stupidest thing would be to be in a room with someone you're not going to talk   
   to,   
   for non-essential activities.   
      
   The Restaurant industry employs 2.5 million waiters, and more busboys.  Waiters   
   and busboys don't produce any equity. We can thus afford them to still spend,   
   if   
   they are put out of a job.  Employing people to commit self-harm and expose   
   themselves to COVID for non-essential purposes, yet for your own   
   entertainment, is   
   criminal exploitation.  We can still have business lunches if necessary on   
   Corporate office building private terraces with take-out.   
      
   Just a thought.   
      
   It's been over 6 months.  We have to make things sustainable now.   
      
   We may have a vaccine in 6 months+, or not for decades.  No one knows the   
   future.   
      
   It should be emphasized, that children can have friends over.  In your own home   
   you should only be having intimate parties with your close friends.  Work from   
   home if/when you can, should remain.  We should raise the minimum wage to 65%   
   per   
   capita GDP of the County over the next year or two, and provide hiring   
   incentives.   
     Underemployment masks true unemployment.   
      
   Wear a mask if you're liable to be in close proximity to strangers/those not   
   willfully near you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)