This so called "pandemic"

I'm actually gonna be passing thru Hollywood on April 1, so maybe I'll stop by. But geez, these Covid restrictions are so over-the-top ridiculous. So tired of this nonsense.

It’s not nonsense but your welcome to believe it’s so.

I just meant it's time to move on. Maybe we should all stop driving too. Think of all the lives we could have saved in 2020 if no one drove.

I will be dropping by Amoeba tomorrow evening however. Getting there by car.

Why even open up their store if they're still so paranoid about the virus? Weird.....either make the experience normal and pleasant or just stay shut down until things aren't psycho anymore.

Because businesses have to survive. These compromises have been working at most of the Seattle stores.

also nothing paranoid about safety measures during a world pandemic

Then why were stores shut down to begin with if they could have been doing these measures all this time?

Really ? I suggest you research and read the facts. Because the contagious was very high and they were still studying and researching the virus. Early on it was unknown in terms of transmission.

at least now only the idiots are not wearing masks in some states and more and more people are finally getting one of the vaccines. I have both my shots now.

it’s a new normal that’s hopefully temporary.

If it was good enough for grocery stores and other places to stay open with their safety measures in the beginning and throughout the pandemic, there was no reason you couldn't apply that same logic to other stores like Amoeba.

People don't have to have used DVD's and records to live--yeah, crazy I know. They do need food though. Hence why groceries were deemed essential and open to the risk.

The point you seem to miss is that grocery stores worked fine with their safety measures and didn't spread transmission much, we knew that extremely early on, yet we kept punishing "nonessential" businesses even though they could have easily done exactly what the grocery stores were doing.

I didn't miss the point at all. Someone decided groceries were the only "essential" businesses, and I'm not sure we were ever able to measure transmission rates at such places.

Groceries tend to be much larger and vast than your average record store, Amoeba notwithstanding.

You just don’t get it. And that’s too bad. Grocery stores are essential. People m need to eat and they don’t needs records. Grocery stores had very struck precautions too. At least where I live.

Record stores here have been opened for several months now as the virus has been more understood. People are required to mask up and at reduced capacity in stores. The better stores offered online sales during lockdown.

Florida now has the biggest increase in cases as they opened up everything to early and have no mask mandate. Cool .

You wear a seatbelt right? You have a car with extensive safety features that just make it safer to drive. What a silly analogy.

But I also don't think it should be illegal to drive without a seatbelt, even though I wear one myself because I have been in a car crash and would have been severely hurt or killed if I hadn't worn one. If someone wants to die not wearing a seatbelt, be my guest. I just don't think there should be laws concerning it.

It was an analogy. The options are there. There are no permanent laws on wearing masks, social distancing, etc. Everyone wants to get back to normal. I don’t want to get into a debate about masks, etc. particularly here but they do risk infection, disease along with other mitigation’s. When in doubt, ask a nurse, doctor or pharmacist. Most will come out in favor.

You can get severely fined for not wearing masks around the LA area, so there are laws that punish you. Gotta "love" the men in blue......

But grocery store workers had infection rates 5 times the general population. Protection is a two way street

Oh interesting. Didn't know that. They should have required the workers to wear hazmat suits