just mashing up comments, but yes, Menards. It’s just a ridiculous “safe” number based on floor area. There will never be 7,146 people in the huge store, and if there were, it would be a Euclid-level SCP.
me neither. i live in a very heavily republican area where a very large plurality of people have never masked, where restaurants have posted but not followed occupancy restrictions, and where a “karen” in a truck ahead of me opened her door and leaned out to scream “take off that fucking mask you goddamn antifa terrorist!”
i might have been a bit hyperbolic but not by much.
Not sure it makes that much difference as they aren’t delivering the vaccine anyway. We wouldn’t have the supplies for a second dose if we didn’t suspend new vaccinations.
I threw this out the other night, but I have to comment a bit more:
I’m in the “Performing ‘Fine’ Arts” industry, though not in a role that involves much interaction with the artists (and less so now that I work from another state). Over the past year we’ve had a lot of retirements and a lot of morale-preserving zoom meetings where people talk about their experiences and where they find the value and purpose in this industry, and I was a little surprised at just how many people put their experiences with Yo-yo Ma at the top of their life lists. Sure he’s the world’s pre-eminent cellist, and sure he’s the guaranteed big draw and cash cow of any season we get him for, but the stories weren’t about that. They were about his incredible generosity and natural leadership, entertaining everyone around him for hours with stories, but stopping constantly to talk to and hear from student musicians.
He recorded a performance for us as part of our streaming video offerings that we’re using to keep our organization going through lockdown, for far less than he could have asked for.