Hey, @cryptoandcoffee.

Man, that's rough. I certainly hope things turn around soon. I wish I could be more positive about that happening, since the numbers here as far as cases go have basically quadrupled now off their highs during the late Spring.

I was laid off in the latter part of March, but managed to get five or six weeks of the enhanced unemployment before going back to work about mid-May, only with reduced hours, similar to what's happening now. However, I made too much just in 12 hours to receive UC because I didn't have enough quarters of work prior to that (I'd been previously unemployed for nearly 6.5 years) to continue receiving it while underemployed.

But since then, I've been working enough hours to actually keep us afloat, and as I mentioned, my wife's job has been pretty solid.

re: held accountable

There's been a couple of different articles I've read over the last several months that point to a lack of evidence that people are getting the virus based on a short, one point of contact. In other words, one is less likely to get the virus from just one individual in a one minute time span. The potential to get the virus increases substantially, however, with more people that you're in contact at once, and the less the health protocols are followed. The superspreader events.

Well, in densely populated areas like New York, you don't need a party or concert to create such event. It's literally built in, and that's why NYC was hit so bad early on, and may be again. In my state, we don't have any one city that approaches that size, in fact, the entire state has just over 4 million residents.

So, I don't know. I don't think the burden should be placed on the business. It could be they realize that it would basically impossible to not only police all of the potential violations, but also enforce it. Law enforcement here has already had pushback in that regard even though there's plenty of support for the sanctions in some sectors.

And of course, government officials have been involved in some of these potential super spreader events, as well, so the same folks who have been chiding us about how the rest of us need to follow the mandates have decided the rules don't apply to them. Do as I say, not as I do.

So, yeah. There are those who won't follow the rules because they don't believe in some aspect of them, and no, they don't help, but the authority over that area is more than willing to come in and take over, too. So, you've got useful idiots and you have overzealous power grabbers. It's a horrible combination, and it ends up ruining things for everyone.