{"id":74043,"date":"2020-05-06T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74043"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:06:40","slug":"government-is-the-things-we-do-together-stupidly-and-arbitrarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74043","title":{"rendered":"Government Is The Things We Do Together &#8211; Stupidly And Arbitrarily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Long Lake restaurant tries to put on a <em>drive in <\/em>movie, complete with take-out food with all the socially-distance, plague-aware trimmings.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2020\/05\/05\/hfr-coronavirus-in-minnesota-state-health-officials-stop-drive-in-movie-at-birchs-on-the-lake\/?utm_campaign=true_anthem&amp;utm_medium=facebook&amp;utm_source=social&amp;fbclid=IwAR1hCQY1BgqxuzmLZ0m4CeX9OS7WAHVstlETdYEOc-ivjOfbzPbxkXPrTA4\">state shut them down<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Birch\u2019s On the Lake has lost around 70% of its regular revenue while doing take-out only during the stay at home order.<\/p><p>The owner came up with a plan to do a family night at the drive-in outside the Long Lake restaurant.<\/p><p>\u201cIt sold out in a day,\u201d Burton Joseph said.<\/p><p>The plan was to hand out notes to customers explaining the safety rules: stay in their cars, maintain distance, and no alcohol. They would be allowed to call in an order for take-out to eat in their cars.<\/p><p>On Monday state officials told Joseph they could not have the event.<\/p><p>\u201cIf we\u2019re coming up with the ideas to keep everyone safe at this point I feel like they deserve to give someone a chance,\u201d Joseph said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet again:   we have a government run by a man who&#8217;s never had a significant job in the private sector, at the head of an administration that has nothing but contempt for businesspeople&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;telling the people who actually have the interests of not only their business, but the customers and communities <em>that are their livelihood<\/em>, and who have greatest stake in providing creative solutions to our mutual problems, how to behave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the sort of thing that delegitimizes government authority, and leaves you with a Ukraine, a Belanus, a Venezuela.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Lake restaurant tries to put on a drive in movie, complete with take-out food with all the socially-distance, plague-aware trimmings. The state shut them down: Birch\u2019s On the Lake has lost around 70% of its regular revenue while doing take-out only during the stay at home order. The owner came up with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,416,30,51,129],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-covid19","category-liberty","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74044,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74043\/revisions\/74044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}