Re:Divorce rates in America soar 34% during Covid; surge not...
by watwut on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:26AM
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Restaurants are waaay emptier then they used to be. What are you talking abou?
Re:Divorce rates in America soar 34% during Covid; surge not...
by twblalock on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:37AM
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They aren't entirely empty though, are they? Yet during the lockdowns it was illegal to go to restaurants. Some customers are better than no customers. Ask any restaurant owner if they would prefer lockdowns to the current state of affairs.
Again, it's not like the economy would not have been damaged either way, but it's obvious that the lockdowns made the economic damage worse.
I really doubt that. Look at how people were behaving until the day the lockdowns began. Look at how people are behaving now. They aren't afraid of going to bars and restaurants and shops. There is no good reason to believe that they wouldn't have behaved the same way the entire time, if the lockdowns had not intervened.
It's obviously true that the economy would have been damaged with or without the lockdowns. It's entirely different to claim that the damage without lockdowns would have been as bad as the damage with lockdowns.