Louis Rossmann describes a situation in Montclair NJ
where a restaurant owner refused to obey a governor’s order of staying within
25% capacity.
He does present the libertarian argument that people
could make their own decisions as to whether to go into a crowded
restaurant. If course, then, we have the
“carrier is a cancer cell” argument.
He also presents a narrative where an elderly lady
showed up at his hardware repair business (in New York State) needing to have a
computer fixed. She had written a draft of
her book and apparently not backed it up.
(My own practice: I use
Carbonite, and usually have 3 thumb drive backups of my own vital files,
including book or screenplay manuscripts and music files, sometimes I will take
one backup with me on trips – not as important right now during
stay-at-home).
Louis did not know if he had been following the letter
of Cuomo’s stay-at-home and business closure orders, as he fixes hardware and
software tech support for ordinary consumers.
In Virginia, Northam’s order did allow computer retail and service businesses
to stay open (although Best Buy limited everything to curbside in April and
May). He also knew that the customer’s
visit might have violated the governor’s order as inessential.
But she could not take the risk of having lost the
only copy of her work.
I would be concerned when involuntary quarantines happen,
or lockdowns, that people could be cut off from their work and lose it. If you are taken to a hotel for quarantine,
can you take your laptop and other personal effects? What happens overseas?
Esther Davidowitz explains the restaurant matter in
the North Jersey times.
Rossmann has a feline companion, a “Mr. Clinton, in his
videos.
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