[heshiebee]

Just alone that the Movie industry in Los Angeles is allowed to continue their operations while small businesses are shut shows exactly what COVID has become. People can make their own decisions whether to go out and how to stay safe.

[ghayes]

You would agree that people "making their own decisions" do affect others, though, correct?

[heshiebee]

I do believe that most people are responsible enough to take the recommended precautions and encourage their friends and family to do the same and not endanger others. The only outcome I see here is like one of prohibition. Our country was built on trust, integrity and distribution of power, much of this is the opposite in the name of public health when the numbers show otherwise. Closing outdoor dining but letting the movie industry dine outdoors. Closing salons but our own speaker of the house doesn’t follow. Prohibition, no less.

[chipotle_coyote]

> I do believe that most people are responsible enough to take the recommended precautions and encourage their friends and family to do the same and not endanger others.

I know I'm being the "[citation needed]" guy again, but the COVID-19 case numbers in the United States just don't seem like they support this optimistic take. If it were true, we should be closer to the median -- if not below it -- then we are.

I'm not honestly sure where you're going with the Prohibition comparison; your anecdotal examples seem to be "they're telling you to follow these restrictions but they're not following them themselves," which, okay, I guess, but they're still just anecdotes. Is this "they TOLD us not to have liquor during Prohibition, but there were county commissioners who were SNEAKING INTO SPEAKEASIES!"? I mean, sure, probably, but the comparison kind of breaks down at that point. Prohibition was based on a puritanical moral panic; our current pandemic-era lockdowns are based on a very real, highly contagious lethal disease.

[jacobolus]

Everyone in the film industry gets tested multiple times per week, and my impression from what I have read is that film people are taking the virus extremely seriously and avoiding social contact outside work to the extent possible, because a breach could jeopardize the whole production (disclaimer: I have no inside knowledge).

This certainly does not happen for patrons at miscellaneous restaurants.

> most people are responsible enough to take the recommended precautions

Empirically this is not a sound belief, if by “most people” you mean a large enough majority to stop the epidemic from growing exponentially.