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NYC restaurants starved for diners, while Miami business up

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https://www.osc.state.ny.us/files/reports/osdc/pdf/nyc-resta...

> Restaurants .. are integral to Manhattan’s central business districts and the City’s vibrant tourism industry, attracting millions of visitors each year who spend a total of $46 billion annually. The industry is the second-largest component of tourism spending, behind lodging ... had 23,650 establishments in 2019, provided 317,800 jobs, paid $10.7 billion in total wages ... 8.1 percent of jobs and 8.7 percent of firms.

This is specifically OpenTable reservations. On top of the pandemic, Resy has been gaining quite a lot of market share.

exactly

Consequences.

Yeah wtf this article. Who exactly are vaccine mandates hurting? pretty sure Manhattan is mostly vaxxed, for what is worth most people are more comfortable dining out with the vax mandates.

Also NYC was averaging >30000 cases a day. Not saying covid is deadly anymore, but personally I really didn't feel like getting sick for 2 weeks for what... eating overpriced food?

Not judging people who go out and live lives though, I know at this point it's not really about "stopping the spread" at all costs. But give me a break, I'm not going to feel bad about not going to restaurants, especially since most of them happily reverted to "no delivery/no take out" pretentious ways.

Well I'm glad the staff at the Post is focusing on what really matters after a million Americans have died (and counting!):

CONSUME

In 2019 2.85 million Americans have died. Should we stop enjoying our lives because of this?

>In 2020, approximately 3,358,814 deaths occurred in the United States.

Of course not all those deaths were Covid related but I think we usually try to reduce unnecessary deaths...

Yes, e.g. next time we should not send infected patients into nursing homes.

They weren't sent into nursing homes, they were returned to their homes which were nursing homes.

Was that an appropriate time for them to return?

The nursing homes couldn't stop them. It was their home. They'd been discharged from the hospital. Are you arguing they can't return home? A bunch of elderly people just discharged from the hospital forced to live on the streets in April?

There were more than two options. Hotels in NYC were used to safely house people during the pandemic, including homeless. For more details, there were multiple reports and investigations, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_COVID-19_nursing_home...

https://nypost.com/2022/01/23/nursing-home-families-blast-ho...

> the 9/11-style Nursing Home Victims Compensation Fund would earmark $4 billion to families whose relatives died amid the state’s nursing home debacle at the start of the pandemic ... Kim’s legislation is in response to a provision included in ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2020 state budget called the “Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act,” which granted health care facilities and workers liability immunity from negligence suits during the early days of the pandemic.

> The corporate immunity clause was supported by New York’s powerful healthcare lobbying group, the Greater New York Hospital Association – which has donated millions to Cuomo’s campaign in the past, according to reports ... "The former governor took millions of dollars in donations from the millionaire nursing home owners, gave those friends blanket protection for their negligence which led to 15,000 deaths, and then tried to hide those deaths from the public”

What are these links? Do they make some kind of cogent argument or are you just kicking the dead Cuomo horse?

As of January 2022, the families of the 15,000 victims do not consider the case closed.

What case? Why don't you turn down the Cuomo rage.

Let's just consider those that died. Where do you put just those 15000 elderly patients so that they still get adequate healthcare for their existing conditions without killing them with Covid exposure just like already happened. Just going to lock them in a hotel room?

Nobody said you can't enjoy your lives. Nobody is calling to shut down all restaurants. But like to put it in perspectives: extra 1M people died, many more millions are in financial ruin, hudreeds of thousands are facing long-term health consequences.

Restaurant reservations being down on one platform is hardly of any importance in comparison. Try getting a reservation for a friday night in any decent place in Manhattan, I dare you

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