We got March 20th and 22nd March Madness games. We've got Berkshire Hathaway the first week of May. Meanwhile they're moving Seattle Mariners out of Seattle for all of March, forcing the Warriors to play to empty crowds, canceling E3 and GDC...


My full-time job is managing a bar near this event center, and winter in the midwest is ROUGH for part-timers while some other full-timers barely squeak by. It's all in the name of gearing up for patio season and these spring events (I almost forgot the Olympic Swim Trials...) and now this fucking virus is threatening to undercut an entire industry.


The weirdest part is, the Dark Desus side of me hopes the service industry side of this spirals out of control and our country can have a real conversation not about minimum wage for service workers but employer health insurance, or the single payer system most of us could actually afford. Because none of us are getting tested, we're just taking Ibuprofen and crossing our fingers. And regulars know this; casuals who read that Washington Post article this weekend are being reminded of it.


I hear a lot of people talking about working from home but I can't exactly make you a Vesper in my apartment and ship it to you on Postmates.


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