Louisville makes it easier/Beshear makes it harder

While Louisville Metro is trying to make it easier for restaurants to open the Beshear administration is doing the opposite and making it more difficult for them to open profitably. Here's a link to the article from business 1st regarding the new regulations:
https://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/ ... 0ifQ%3D%3D
While we all realize that we have to be careful, we also realize that things need to be done to help businesses, restaurants in particular to resume operating with a reasonable/profitable operating model. Some of these regulations are outlandish to say the least and are way beyond the reasonable.

[Robin Garr]

It's behind a paywall, Mark. I don't get enough use out of Business First to pay for it. Could you summarize?

As for Beshear, he's doing a great job of leading the state through this, and he's earning national praise for his work. His only opposition seems to come from the Tea Party, and that's not the best or the brightest.

I know we all love our local restaurants and want them to survive, but not at the expense of another spike in the virus and more lives lost.

It's behind a paywall, Mark. I don't get enough use out of Business First to pay for it. Could you summarize?

As for Beshear, he's doing a great job of leading the state through this, and he's earning national praise for his work. His only opposition seems to come from the Tea Party, and that's not the best or the brightest.

I know we all love our local restaurants and want them to survive, but not at the expense of another spike in the virus and more lives lost.

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It's an extremely long article but I found a section on the "Healthy At Work" website with all of the requirements listed. I downloaded it and put it in my Dropbox account, here's a link to it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fdkv9rzaw8hhh ... 0.pdf?dl=0

The requirements look reasonable to me, certainly nothing "outlandish." Personally, I think we are jumping the gun by re-opening dine-in restaurants later this month, period. Seems that some of the countries trying that over the last couple of weeks (Germany, South Korea) have already experienced outbreaks necessitating that they shut back down again. That does nothing for the greater economy, but does lead to more suffering and death.

Speaking for myself, the reason I’m not going to restaurants is not because they are closed or because of any regulations. It’s because I don’t want to get the virus myself, and especially don’t want to pass it on to the vulnerable older members of my family. I would not be going to restaurants or bars even if they were open. In other words, I suspect the economy is crashing not because of regulations, forced closings, or stay-at-home orders, but because we haven’t gotten control of the virus, and that that failure is what’s collapsed demand and what’s destroying the service industry. Get control of the virus and the economy will follow. Focus on opening up before the virus is under control, and you’ll just prolong the economic disaster and extend the pandemic.

Edit: lol I should have just read what Steve wrote

[Robin Garr]

Edit: lol I should have just read what Steve wrote

I'm giving thumbs up to what you and Steve both wrote, Iggy.

As a customer, also with an at-risk family member living with me, I can't see how I'd go to a restaurant until we have a vaccine. I hate that. But it's the world we live in right now.

Some of the eateries feel the same way. It’s not a restaurant, but Please & Thank You coffee shop is already planning to wait until September, tentatively, for the above reasons. It also surely helps that their curbside and delivery operations have been successful.

Governor Beshear is NOT trying to make it harder for restaurants. He is trying to reduce the number of people infected with a deadly virus in Kentucky so that fewer people die and it is less likely for our healthcare system to be overwhelmed. The decisions he is making are based on science and medicine. It is not Governor Beshear that has hurt the economy, jobs, businesses, etc., it is a deadly virus. This is a very difficult time for those in the travel and hospitality industries. try to support them however you are able, and pray that we never see a pandemic like this again.

Governor Beshear is NOT trying to make it harder for restaurants. He is trying to reduce the number of people infected with a deadly virus in Kentucky so that fewer people die and it is less likely for our healthcare system to be overwhelmed. The decisions he is making are based on science and medicine. It is not Governor Beshear that has hurt the economy, jobs, businesses, etc., it is a deadly virus. This is a very difficult time for those in the travel and hospitality industries. try to support them however you are able, and pray that we never see a pandemic like this again.

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Well said Ron.