[stupac2]

It's because everyone who runs a business is desperately trying to hold onto their business, feed themselves and feed their employees.  It's why nail salons stay open until the police tell them to shut down.  Two months off, and those businesses vanish, along with the life savings of the owners and the salaries of their employees.  Apparently some people find that difficult to understand.

There's no need to be condescending. The store I was talking about could easily take measures to dramatically reduce the potential for contagion (which basically every other store I'm aware of near here is doing), but they're choosing not to. They'd still make money, they just don't care. I actually had an employee of that store respond to me elsewhere saying that they were glad they're on vacation this week because management just doesn't care.

At some point you stop being able to assign reasonable motives to these things.

[stupac2]

It's because everyone who runs a business is desperately trying to hold onto their business, feed themselves and feed their employees.  It's why nail salons stay open until the police tell them to shut down.  Two months off, and those businesses vanish, along with the life savings of the owners and the salaries of their employees.  Apparently some people find that difficult to understand.

There's no need to be condescending. The store I was talking about could easily take measures to dramatically reduce the potential for contagion (which basically every other store I'm aware of near here is doing), but they're choosing not to. They'd still make money, they just don't care. I actually had an employee of that store respond to me elsewhere saying that they were glad they're on vacation this week because management just doesn't care.

At some point you stop being able to assign reasonable motives to these things.