Mentioned a bit above by someone. I'm most worried about overall tourism and travel. That's essentially my favorite thing to do ad probably take 10ish trips a year, and now we don't know how much or when it'll kinda be normal to do again. Granted, it hasn't been bad to save all the money I'd have spent on the 4 trips I've had cancelled since this started but I'd rather be having fun.

Also, restaurants and shared kitchens specifically designed only for delivery has been a growing trend in cities for a few years now. This has to have ramped them up big time. I want to say one was on Shark Tank this year and didn't get a deal, probably missed an opportunity there. I know that wasn't specifically what you're talking about in regards to fine dining, just adding to the convo though. I agree with snapper on that, to each their own on how they want to spend money. You might think I'm crazy for spending on 100$ meals a lot, I might say someone else is for spending $400 on a handbag, $200 on shoes, buying a 60K car when the 25K one will do the same thing, thousands on daycare a month, dogs/cats expenses, etc.

You have a fair take, it's not crazy as deathrate was a thing emphasized due to how it was early on. But again if you dig below, everyone was saying the whole time that the % would be way less than what it was then. Plus, the whole point was hey we don't know, as of now it looks worse, it could be worse, so we should be cautious and figure it out. Literally 0 science/data people ever claimed to know what the deathrate would be back in say March/April. This is not some "gotcha" they were wrong about. All the while yes they were saying as of now the deathreate looks worse, but it's so early we don't know what it'll end up. They said this all clearly at the time yet you're acting like they defrauded everyone. And still, as of now it still does look worse.

However, the whole time the number 1 issues was the infection rate due to asymptomatic spread combined with no vaccine and no testing could lead to a big problem and numbers. And it has. Essentially, even if the deathrate like .5%, due to these issues if you let millions and millions be infected the total death number will be really bad. But now these folks have an agenda to undermine so they're jamming it in your head. The folks that you're listening to who claim to be so right were the ones at the time saying this is all bs, there is no cases here. They're now saying "there was so many cases it means the rate is low, so your'e still wrong". Somehow, they're still convinced they're right and will never admit otherwise.

And it basic faulty logic to say 'they said X amount, but it only ended up Y amount so they were wrong.' Yea, because we did what we did. If you looked at how those projections are done, they were all "written as if we do nothing" type things. Have to read beyond headlines. This would be the equivalent logic of if I said if you keep smoking you're very likely or greatly increases your chances to get cancer from it. you quit smoking, then say "you're an idiot, see I didn't get cancer". That's how easily every talking point these people are cramming down people's throats are picked apart.

I do not wish to argue and have to point it out on anything else. I'll never convince you. you have to get there on your own with an open mind. Please stop buying into them taking things out of context and spinning it to try and convince you it's all made up and the science people are idiots. All this stuff was said at the time and they never claimed they'd get everything 100% correct or that they knew everything about a brand new virus, so latching onto a thing here or there that ends up off does not mean they're wrong about everything. I know it's easy to go down this path with the current state of things and if you look into the psychology of conspiracy theory type stuff I get how it happens. But you're seriously being led astray here by people who've been on the wrong side from the beginning and are dug into it.