Eateries and pubs are among the ultimate local small businesses – often a family-owned business that provides many jobs that depend upon high demand for their product.
They also have become some of the most questioned ground for where coronavirus could spread – a potentially deadly possibility which is leading to lowered demand for their product, and forcing some restaurants to move to to-go-only service.
But should the state officially halt restaurants and pubs completely being open at all, as many states have?
“The consideration here was in the context of restaurants, social distancing…is possible in a restaurant,” said Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary-Designee Andrea Palm.
She and Governor Evers have put up a ban of gatherings of 50 or more people.
“So long as customers are six feet apart, so long as we are reducing to 50 the number of total people, or half the capacity of the restaurant, we can deploy these social distancing strategies.”
She said there was some consideration made for the capability of businesses to remain viable through the lneght of the pandemic.
“We want to see how it goes here…we are hopeful this is middle ground, a good first step.”
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Wisconsin’s Afternoon News w/ @JohnMercure comes your way at 3!@GovEvers has proposed a ban of gatherings of 50 or more people. @realDonaldTrump has recommended avoiding gatherings of 10 or more.
— 620wtmj (@620wtmj) March 16, 2020
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