We naughty people keep wanting to go to bars -- you know, to live our lives, and enjoy the one life we
get.
Well, you're not allowed to make your own risk assessments. Certain states have decided that bars are simply to be bankrupted, and you are to stay home.
In Massachusetts, bars are among the establishments that are not allowed to reopen until there's a vaccine.
So that's it. Because there's a virus, nobody can go out for a drink, ever.
Meanwhile, the virus does its thing in every society it enters, despite the various mitigation efforts. Australia was supposed to have "flattened the curve" using "contact tracing" and the various other measures that they laughed at Americans for not using.
Well, Australia today suddenly has more cases than it had at the beginning of the outbreak!
So they're shutting down again.
That's all they can think of: ruin everyone's lives, in order to preserve a merely biological existence unworthy of a human being.
Back to the bars:
Some bars had been clever. Since any establishment serving food was allowed to operate, certain bars started offering menus consisting of various snack foods.
So now the governor of Pennsylvania (along with other governors) is trying to crush even these efforts.
The new rules:
-- alcohol can be served only as part of a meal;
-- snack foods don't count as meals;
-- customers can't buy more drinks once their meal is finished.
Here's how I'd get around that:
Sell meals consisting of very, very tiny sandwiches. Like a square inch of cold cut meat between two bagel chips. I would urge my customers to take their time during their meal.
I think that satisfies all the requirements.
What I also favor: tipping generously during these hard times. Showing some human solidarity.
Tips are not where we should be cheapskates.
If you're desperate to save money, here's where you should do it instead.
On something we all use, and which we pay for year after year, but which you can actually pay for once, much more cheaply, and then never pay for again.
Until tomorrow, that is, when the offer is withdrawn.
Grab your tiny sandwich and click here, to save yourself a bunch of smackers:
Tom Woods