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First, hats off to Mark Cuban. Many tycoons are just hiding, or trying to sway and misinform for their financial gain. Nice to see Cuban researching, then sharing information even if it may be detrimental to the Dallas Mavericks playing soon.

Second, this finding doesn't surprise me at all: it's exactly what I've been seeing.

Generally, I've found larger, well-financed companies implementing smarter guidelines. Costco offers senior hours, they require masks, they reduce the # of people indoors, they have people inside constantly telling people to space and how to space (even educating some people to be less clueless and oblivious), they increase cleaning times, they provide sneeze guards for cashiers and receipt inspectors, and they wipe down carts.

Similarly, at my local Panda Express, I can order and pay online. No customers go inside, they've shifted a POS system outside to take orders (for anyone who didn't order online) and they've moved the actual pick up of food to the opposite end of the building, near the exit, also outdoors. No customers can enter the building. Everyone is wearing masks.

Then I go to my local pizza joint (with 3 locations). No one is wearing a mask.  I can order by phone, but I have to pay when I get there. To get my pizza, I've got to wait in the lobby for 10 minutes. The cashier isn't wearing gloves. The pizza makers are in close proximity to each other because the kitchen is like a narrow hallway.  The only HVAC is an overhead fan blowing the down onto the cashier and me. No windows or doors are open as far as I can see. This will be my last visit to this place.

This is also where it would've been nice to have more guidance from the CDC, and I'd like to see states and counties step it up both in terms of education and in terms of enforcement. 

I imagine a great many of these smaller restaurants are well-intentioned but they don't have the staff and expertise to digest a pile of medical papers and to translate that into a list of concrete steps they can take to protect their employees and customers, and they wouldn't know what's high risk and what small steps they could take (open doors and windows, wear masks, probably turn off the overhead fan, try to move the cashier outdoors or to the entryway). It's also not as easy for them to suddenly have sneeze guards installed.

In some instances, I see counties and states taking leadership to help businesses be safer, but I'd like to see a lot more. I imagine the disparities are even greater in manufacturing and food processing.

I've seen pretty much universal attempts at implementing good practices here, with the obvious caveat that I haven't been out much. There's a spectrum for sure, and I'm pretty disappointed in my most-local grocery store (to the point where we just order from Whole Foods), but even they have had employees in masks and put up plexiglass. There's a different grocery store up a big hill has a fantastic plan that they're implementing well, I wish they were less annoying for me to get to. As it is we're mostly just ordering from WF now that that's easy.

[stupac2]

First, hats off to Mark Cuban. Many tycoons are just hiding, or trying to sway and misinform for their financial gain. Nice to see Cuban researching, then sharing information even if it may be detrimental to the Dallas Mavericks playing soon.

Second, this finding doesn't surprise me at all: it's exactly what I've been seeing.

Generally, I've found larger, well-financed companies implementing smarter guidelines. Costco offers senior hours, they require masks, they reduce the # of people indoors, they have people inside constantly telling people to space and how to space (even educating some people to be less clueless and oblivious), they increase cleaning times, they provide sneeze guards for cashiers and receipt inspectors, and they wipe down carts.

Similarly, at my local Panda Express, I can order and pay online. No customers go inside, they've shifted a POS system outside to take orders (for anyone who didn't order online) and they've moved the actual pick up of food to the opposite end of the building, near the exit, also outdoors. No customers can enter the building. Everyone is wearing masks.

Then I go to my local pizza joint (with 3 locations). No one is wearing a mask.  I can order by phone, but I have to pay when I get there. To get my pizza, I've got to wait in the lobby for 10 minutes. The cashier isn't wearing gloves. The pizza makers are in close proximity to each other because the kitchen is like a narrow hallway.  The only HVAC is an overhead fan blowing the down onto the cashier and me. No windows or doors are open as far as I can see. This will be my last visit to this place.

This is also where it would've been nice to have more guidance from the CDC, and I'd like to see states and counties step it up both in terms of education and in terms of enforcement. 

I imagine a great many of these smaller restaurants are well-intentioned but they don't have the staff and expertise to digest a pile of medical papers and to translate that into a list of concrete steps they can take to protect their employees and customers, and they wouldn't know what's high risk and what small steps they could take (open doors and windows, wear masks, probably turn off the overhead fan, try to move the cashier outdoors or to the entryway). It's also not as easy for them to suddenly have sneeze guards installed.

In some instances, I see counties and states taking leadership to help businesses be safer, but I'd like to see a lot more. I imagine the disparities are even greater in manufacturing and food processing.

I've seen pretty much universal attempts at implementing good practices here, with the obvious caveat that I haven't been out much. There's a spectrum for sure, and I'm pretty disappointed in my most-local grocery store (to the point where we just order from Whole Foods), but even they have had employees in masks and put up plexiglass. There's a different grocery store up a big hill has a fantastic plan that they're implementing well, I wish they were less annoying for me to get to. As it is we're mostly just ordering from WF now that that's easy.