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Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim... by majormajor on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @08:48PM (#22873218)
Restaurant bookings and travel were falling sharply in CA even before the official stay-at-home policies[0], so your alternative is a world where huge chunks of the economy are still fucked.

Unless you want to force people to eat at restaurants, travel to conferences, host events, etc...

[0] there's this from March 13, for instance https://blog.opentable.com/2020/covid-19-coronavirus-restaur... , googling conference cancellations and such is left as an exercise for the reader...

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Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim... by paulgb on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:09PM (#22873385)
NYC too, to the point that the mayor tweeted encouraging "New Yorkers to go on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus", which did not age well even by 2020 standards.
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