Restaurants perfectly illustrate why the US response to coronavirus has been so bad

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  • Now that we're fully in the coronavirus reopening phase of the pandemic, one thing we're starting to see more of is restaurants having to close again following a spike in cases around them.
  • It's partly the nature of the business, bringing crowds of people together to eat a meal and to sit for an extended period of time.
  • However, we're likely to see this trend continue, especially with the US setting a one-day record for the most coronavirus cases in a single day this week.

The CEO of Olive Garden's parent company said this week that, so far, consumers aren't staying away from the chain's dining rooms even as coronavirus cases are spiking again around the US.

“We’ve seen no change in our business trends, and in the states that are starting to spike obviously, we’re concerned, we’re focused on it,” Darden Restaurants CEO Gene Lee told analysts Thursday on the company’s latest quarterly earnings call. Did you catch that? No change in a business that by and large is built around lots of people sitting down together for an extended period of time to eat (and talk loud, cough, and do all sorts of other things that spread germs). And those people are still packing restaurants, notwithstanding the rise of coronavirus cases getting so bad that at least three states might have to return to lockdowns of some kind.

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