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wolfy42 posted...

In the US we are making it WORSE by cutting store hours and restricting which ones are open (small grocery stores etc are mostly closing).

This is making a majority of Americans have to travel to one of a few places near them, which is the perfect way to quickly spread the virus.

Yeah, I don't really get why reducing hours seems to be such a popular approach. Reducing hours doesn't reduce the amount of shopping people do, it just means more people are doing their shopping at the same time, which is exactly what we want to avoid. I get the basic idea of "the less time we're open, the less time we spend potentially exposed to it," but the fact that they'll have higher customer density while they are open kind of negates that.

That said, I have seen a number of places say they're reducing their hours by an hour or two to allow them extra time to deep clean and sanitize the premises each day, which is reasonable. That kind of cleaning takes time, and they can't be expected to pay for more staff hours to make that happen.

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