35. The ebeer dichotomy
Few
things entice more conflicting feelings in me that this new coronavirus concept
of the ebeer. For those of you who have been under a rock for the last 3
months, this is a coronavirus lockdown activity consisting in meeting your
friends for a drink over a web meeting platform, sharing video and catching up
as a group. It is critically important and a great device to keep social ties
and stay in touch with your social circle, and it makes you realise how much
harder this lockdown would have been before we developed these technologies (at
which point there would be no lockdown, just many more deaths, but that’s for
another post). So why the conflicting feelings? The ebeer is great in lockdown,
but it would be terrible if abused in normality. What if, after lockdown is
lifted, we all decide to stay at home on grounds of safety, and stop going to
bars, restaurants and pubs? I will certainly keep the ebeer to engage more with
geographically remote friends, but will we return to the bars?
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I have my own opinion about whether we will return, but that will posted tomorrow.
As for the bars being profitable, one thing they may consider is a maximum time per drink. At the moment, a lot of their capacity is consumed by people who don't have much, but spend a long time. Remember that space time is 4 dimensional, so y0u can compensate space restrictions with time extensions to get to the same space-time, profit potentail volume
There are of course public health considerations to hurrying up drinkers, which neither Einstain not myself need to worry about, but politicians will.
I will try to return to a normal life ( taking into consideration how much normal I am)
As we are in public, i will not comment on your normality, you know my opinion ;-)