Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

RenegadeMonster said:
The local news had a story this morning about how first it was with the airlines, and now it's happening at restaurants. Unruly customers and thin patience causing waitresses to walk out mid shift.

According to the latest poll out this past weekend, customer satisfaction at restaurants are at an all time low.

46% of customers complained about restaurants being "short staffed".
66% of customers were concerned over increased costs.

Waitresses are getting getting screwed on tips over people's anger over the above and how they say their experience was not as good as pre covid. Slow service and more expensive.

And people getting frustrated aren't just complaining, they are getting unruly. Name calling, threatening staff and what not. A local business owner told a pair of guys to leave after they threatened one of waitresses last month only to have those guys then break in the back and start trashing the kitchen.

Add the return of mask mandates when not eating, (such as when ordering or walking around the restaurant) and short fuses are igniting full TNT.


The business owner who had the two guys trash her kitchen said, "you think you are frustrated by us being short staff, how about think about us and how frustrated we and our staff must be as well. It's not just you. We are doing everything we can to hire help, but there are not enough people applying and current workers are quitting at a record pace and leaving the industry."
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I've worked in restaurants and food service. They don't get paid enough to deal with this BS. No amount of tips are going to change this. I have heard that many restaurants are raising wages to attract workers, and they can't, because $12/hour still isn't a living wage.

The people attacking restaurant workers have obviously never been restaurant workers.
 
A Church in Maine has brought a lawsuit on to block the state from enforcing new, or reinstating any Covid restrictions in the wake of Delta and cases surging.

What is weird and unique about this case was it attempted to block restrictions that don't currently exist or will be going into effect.

The case made it all the way to the SCOTUS where they declined to take the case on.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
A Church in Maine has brought a lawsuit on to block the state from enforcing new, or reinstating any Covid restrictions in the wake of Delta and cases surging.

What is weird and unique about this case was it attempted to block restrictions that don't currently exist or will be going into effect.

The case made it all the way to the SCOTUS where they declined to take the case on.
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Let me guess: Calvary Chapel? They tried this last year too. Guy is a nutcase and mostly just doing it for the publicity. Same place also hosted Eric Trump during the campaign. It’s a borderline cult.
 
sjaygray said:
Let me guess: Calvary Chapel? They tried this last year too. Guy is a nutcase and mostly just doing it for the publicity. Same place also hosted Eric Trump during the campaign. It’s a borderline cult.
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www.cnn.com

Breyer rejects Maine church's attempt to block Delta variant restrictions that don't exist

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer denied a request Monday from a Maine church that sought to block the state from enforcing or reinstating Covid restrictions in the wake of the Delta variant surge
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

You indeed look to be correct. Calvary Chapel.
 
gaporter said:
Not sure how true this is but given it's LiveNation I am unfortunately inclined to believe it.
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Why or why does clicking on the pictures in the tweets to open them open up twitter.

The replies were clearly visible. Rene is pissing me off.

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It's not about not living your life / living in fear. It's about the information being withheld so you can't make an informed decision.
 
gouis said:
Not all students qualify for interpreters/note takers. There’s a wide spectrum of needs and there isn’t infinite resources.

Tons of our students can “pass” and it just makes their lives really hard. And clear masks fog up and much more uncomfortable.
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Of course, duh. It was so ubiquitous in my education, I forgot what a bitch getting services is for the most part. In spite of literally being in the middle of an accessibility issue right now.
 
Ginormousthumbs said:
Now there are reports of a Delta Plus. How many more times is this thing going to mutate?
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Actually, I was coming to post this. It's a pre-print paper, so it hasn't been peer reviewed yet, but they are talking about the lambda variant which is more transmissible than the delta variant and it looks like it's also more resistant to the vaccine. This is the variant that is ravaging South America right now--so....ya know.....not far from us (especially me in NOLA).

SARS-CoV-2 Lambda, a new variant of interest, is now spreading in some South American countries; however, its virological features and evolutionary trait remain unknown. Here we reveal that the spike protein of the Lambda variant is more infectious and it is attributed to the T76I and L452Q mutations. The RSYLTPGD246-253N mutation, a unique 7-amino-acid deletion mutation in the N-terminal domain of the Lambda spike protein, is responsible for evasion from neutralizing antibodies. Since the Lambda variant has dominantly spread according to the increasing frequency of the isolates harboring the RSYLTPGD246-253N mutation, our data suggest that the insertion of the RSYLTPGD246-253N mutation is closely associated with the massive infection spread of the Lambda variant in South America.
www.biorxiv.org

SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant exhibits higher infectivity and immune resistance

SARS-CoV-2 Lambda, a new variant of interest, is now spreading in some South American countries; however, its virological features and evolutionary trait remain unknown. Here we reveal that the spike protein of the Lambda variant is more infectious and it is attributed to the T76I and L452Q...
www.biorxiv.org www.biorxiv.org
 
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