Why is no one here taking this seriously?. Social Distancing is going to be a permanent thing and you laugh it off?
Am I the only one here with any semblance of a brain?. Does the idea of no more social events/concerts/conventions/sporting events, never being able to travel locally, nationally and globally, having to keep your distance from people forever including friends, family or loved ones not scare you?. It should. I can see the government deploying social Distancing wardens to enforce that
They already can't make it a thing. Nobody does it at the grocery store or other places. The only way they enforce it is by closing down events like conventions, sports games, and concerts. The free market will literally sort it out because business owners will either take the risk and ignore it (it's a good gamble since social distancing bullshit will kill most of their business whether they stay closed like in many states or go to 50% capacity) or skirt the rules as much as possible (surely no one will notice it's 55% full and not 50% full!). Anyone who plays by the rules loses.
Same thing with concerts. I guarantee there's a fuckton of house concerts right now and the popularity will only rise if they want to keep concert venues closed/do retarded shit like a "socially distanced concert". Artists who play there gain more fans than anyone staying home. Promoters can actually do business. Merch gets sold and fans are happy. Everyone takes a risk because of both the disease and the police state but it's a risk worth taking.
Expect record low ratings for every league. I don't care so much about the billionaire owners and players making 100 million a season and coaches making 10 million a season, care more about the guy working at the hotdog stand or the guy scrubbing the toilets. That's a ton of jobs that won't exist, and you bet your ass there's going to be a lot of complaining players when their contracts come up for renewal and they're offered a fraction of what they made because the revenue isn't there. Sports is harder to fix since starting your own league is impossible and existing leagues can't just pick a park and invite a crowd but even then there's plenty of independent local/regional leagues who can just say "fuck it, we're playing here" and have enough local support from politicians/police in towns/counties for them to look the other way.
"Social distancing warden" is the dumbest thing ever and will literally never happen since cities are going bankrupt and can't afford to hire more police for this, install and maintain cameras to enforce it, deal with an overclogged legal system, or deal with the legal ramifications of it period. It would literally be like France in 2018/2019 with their toll booths and Yellow Vests. Something like 75% of tolls went unpaid because the booths were smashed and ignored. People start getting hit with "social distancing ticket", people don't pay them and start smashing cameras and it becomes so expensive for the government they just bothering and go back to running speed traps. Media will call it racist too since guess which group of Americans likes being extra social.
Since in practice few actually bother social distancing and the only thing mandatory social distancing does is fuck over everyone from the guy running the town diner to the billionaires who own everything from your favorite NFL team to McDonalds, expect it to quietly go away.
