Indoor dining has still not come to New York City, although it is currently scheduled to return on September 30th at 25% capacity. According to the New York Post, that's not enough to replace the outdoor dining capacity that's quickly going the way of summer weather. They note that 87% of bars and restaurants in the city were already unable to make their August rent, and a third of those made no payment at all. An estimated 150,000 hospitality industry workers are still out of work, although COVID-19 rates remain below 1% across the state. This story made Hacker News, where it was compared to the Onion article Study Finds Most Restaurants Fail Within First Year Of It Becoming Illegal To Go To Them.
The LA Times warns of a coming "tsunami" of hotel closures:
Nationwide, it’s not clear how many hotels are behind on their loan payments. But figures are available on hotel loans that have been bundled and sold to investors as commercial mortgage-backed securities. Payments on 16.77% of those loans are more than 30 days late, according to Fitch Ratings — up dramatically from less than 2% before the industry began feeling the pandemic’s financial effects.P.S. Massachusetts' cases were up a seventh of a percentage point today. They were up a third of a point on Friday, nearly half a point on Saturday, two sevenths of a point on Sunday, and a fifth of a percentage point on Monday.
Also, PlagueBlog feels the need to warn Cambridge residents and their neighbors that the Cantabrigian pointless outdoor mask requirement comes back into effect at midnight tonight (although "midnight on September 22, 2020" is embarrassingly imprecise, even by COVID panic standards).
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