Michael Neff realized what was about to happen. It was the end of March, and Texas had passed 1,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 has supported as governor Greg Abbott announced that many companies, including gyms, restaurants and bars-would be banned serve customers at home. The Cotton Club, his Houston cocktail bars would have to close. “We were resigned to the fact that we were unable to do so,” Neff says his company. “We have one day to be really, really depressed and I joined the bar and do not answer the phone.” Since then, Neff has tried to bring the online experience Cotton Club through a themed bar with karaoke night variety show and cocktails threads themed Live Streaming. Customers can show support by paying a virtual tip jar. If the regulator can reopen the auction May 22 to 25% of capacity, reconfigure the furniture Neff, a reservation system designed and contactless menu. The obligation to keep customers and employees safe as possible weighed on him. “You are always a safe version with some versions of commerce for trade,” he says. “It ‘s been difficult, as far as possible, in order to promote, if, in your heart, it’s perfectly fine if only 10 people show up.” In the past five months in states and municipalities a mixture of block and quarantine measures have the money that would include many bars, or take-limited operations only. The orders tightened, then loosened and tightened again in some places, such as Texas and California. try to balance as a political economic benefits with health risks, bar mine canaries were in a very dangerous coal. The arrests took a toll on the bar area. In the first few visits from April to bars and similar establishments were at the national level 89% over last year, according to data Cuebiq, a mobility analyst firm based in New York that the foot traffic of consumers tracks. To reopen a bar started, at least at national level back-swiped by some patrons of 7 July, visits to 48% of the last year rate. This is still a major drop in the pedestrian traffic in restaurants (24%) and department stores (-14%), but it is still a rebound. However, there are big differences in cash traffic from state to state. Hits to the bar in New Jersey is almost pre-pandemic returned by 72% over the previous year, while visits to the bar in Wyoming and North Dakota have a level: It ‘important that if people in bars back in many cases in a particular state seems a remarkable effect that was both COVID-19 blast. Comparing the rates of positive cases crown with trade, Cuebiq analysts found strong correlations between the opening bars and spikes of positivity rate about a week later in some states, including outbreak in Arizona, Florida and Georgia. Meanwhile, states like New York and New Jersey, which delayed the resumption of indoor leisure facilities, such as bars are, they have a lower rate of positive cases recently. While states the restrictions on bars at different times, each State the face shown in the table below the new year in cash visits as positive of 7 July compared his move in a week the average rate of COVID-19 trial between July 2 and July 16: Cuebiq collects data from smartphone users to authorize applications on their phones anonymous their ability to gather information. The complete dataset includes 15 million phones nationwide. Cuebiq typically uses this data to track activities, the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, but since the pandemic began, it was researchers want to provide a better understanding of how the virus spreads and how people react to it . Antonio Tomarchio, Cuebiq founder and CEO, is the first to admit that the data open other facilities at the same time they open bar, you may have falsified the data are not entirely conclusive-many were new. But he says that they provide a guide for decision makers. “It is not the correlation causation, but it is instructive,” he says. “You have to consider it.” However, it is not entirely surprising that there might be a correlation between the bar and the transmission of the virus. Gerardo Chowell-Puente, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Georgia State University, says that probably bars represent a greater risk of transmission than other indoor places, such as retail stores or cinema because their customers are close to each other more typically have interactions. In addition, he notes, they are to make people more susceptible to security protocols by when under the influence of alcohol. “The greatest risk in a closed room, without a mask,” says Chowell-Puente. “In the bar, it is very likely to speak with people who spread contains the virus.” If bars are open, it seems to be to influence those who get sick, too. At the beginning of pandemic outbreaks it was common in places such as facilities for assisted living and nursing homes. But as younger reopened flow bars, are those too sick. In April, when most of the country has been suspended more than 3,000 patients each week for COVID-19 in the hospital, but only about 25% of them under the age of 50 were according to the Center for the control and disease prevention (CDC), Today 1,000 patients is about to be hospitalized a week, but over 40% are under 50 years, while the younger ones tend to be less prone to serious COVID-19, are not completely immune, and can carry other vulnerable people. While some restaurateurs are pushing back against the mandatory closures in Texas, sued a group of them the governor after the second arrest others there at the time of danger to health are featured more understanding for their operations. Neff, for one, argued for arrests in the face of danger to health from pubs to keep it open. But many also want elected officials aware of their victims and offer more financial support to keep them afloat amid the closures. On-again-off-again arrests are particularly painful, because any recovery takes time and money. “If only 10% would lead your industry for hundreds of cases and outbreaks, it is well closed every down? From the point of view of public health, it is,” says T. Cole Newton, the twelve mile zone has to New Orleans. Although the rules allowed for 50% of capacity, it limited its bar to 25%. Now he has already been forced to close again, but can not offer to-go drinks. And ‘less work, he says, to run the bar in survival mode, instead of holding the security and the behavior of its customers to manage people in good health. However, he is concerned about the number of companies that will not survive the pandemic. Mass closures are enormously harmful, not only hinder the owners and their employees, he says, but also for people who connect to the local bar as a way to leave their communities. “Is sweaty, and it is noisy and you can not sail without a half-dozen other people to touch,” he says Per our busiest night. “Therefore, we are prone to crashes, but also because we are irreplaceable.” The Newton’s fears are realized. In late May, The Stud, longer queer bar in San Francisco, closed its doors for the last time; its owners were given early fall to avoid debt in a lease. The pin is the kind of place the great interpreters of the vaunted Etta James to Lady Gaga and great history. It opened at the top of the movement for gay rights decades of the 1960s and operated as a haven for artists and the LGBTQ community. But packaged in personal exhibitions of resistance have no place in a pandemic. On May 31, as a farewell to the legendary bar, its owners have held a virtual funeral. On the day of the on-line streaming each other, at 11 weeks had passed since the state of California has ordered all bars, wineries, clubs and close brewpubs. Two weeks after the funeral, the reopened bars in most of the community only to close them again four weeks later, on July 13, but that dot the owners are confident that they will find a new job, take the back bar, where the pandemic is over. “It ‘was a self-preservation tactic”, says the drag performer and LGBTQ activists Honey Mahogany, who with 17 other customers in the bar, the plant acquired in 2016. “We are continuing the legacy of the tunnel”. Image copyright Sergio Flores AFP / Getty Images
COVID-19 positivity rates Crushed appear to be, in many states these bars reopened
