Kansas City's restaurants have endured their worst year in modern history.
Simply blaming the pandemic is a cop out because there are more factors at play.
Following the Mayor's curfew order we've seen close to a dozen places announce their closure with hundreds of jobs lost.
Moreover, a few messages and chats reveal an unfortunate fact of life . . .
MANY LEADERS OF THE KANSAS CITY RESTAURANT SCENE BLAME MAYOR LUCAS FOR AN EXTREME CRACKDOWN THAT FORCES A FALSE DECISION BETWIXT SAFETY VS. JOBS!!!
In an upcoming lawsuit, restaurant leaders will argue that they were, in fact, keeping safe and following public health protocols.
Moreover, if we look at the local restaurant shut down carnage closely, it's worth noting that few chains are on the list and local independent places have been hit worst of all.
Here's just some of the KCMO restaurant scene carnage since the Mayor started his crackdown that begin with 10-10-10 rules and recently closed restaurants at 10 PM with little science to support the group punishment for a few bad actors . . .
Gaslight Grille, Corner Restaurant, The Mixx (Downtown), Black Sheep, Rieger, Manifesto, Urban Table, Tapcade, Hopcat, Tiki Cat, Flying Saucer, Webster House, Beignet, Parkway On The Plaza, Gojos, Freshwater, Poi-o, Nara, Nick and Jakes (Plaza), Ignite, Louie’s Wine Dive, Soirée, Boru Raman, The Levee, Bluestem.
Again, the lawsuit might or might not win.
However . . .
What we know for certain is that many of these restaurants will NEVER reopen despite assurances in much the same way that more than a few KCMO service industry leaders will NEVER trust Mayor Quinton Lucas again.
Check the links . . .
KMBC: Hospitalizations, positivity rate continues to climb in KCMO
Fox4: After weekend sweep, over two dozen KC bars, restaurants found violating new restrictions
You decide . . .
The mayor is making tough choices. He is trying to keep people alive and safe. He is doing the right thing.
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DeleteActually, he's just following orders to force a stimulus deal. Sad.
Professor McDrinkerson? Tough choices??
DeleteThe comedy routine is really coming along! Lol
Would you be saying the mayor is making tough choices to keep everyone safe, if it was YOUR business that was being shut down?
DeleteIf MAGATS had worn masks back in March, April, and May ... none of this would be happening. Instead, their selfish FREEDUMB kept COVID alive and well. Thanks, dipshits. This is all your fault. I hope every one of you cockroaches loses their job, their family, their house, and their health. Good riddance.
ReplyDeleteSo your saying so you’re saying, your Governor Quomo sent thousands of republicans in nursing homes to their deaths?
DeleteDo you even think about what you’re saying?
Trump got COVID, lost his job and lost his house. Weird.
DeleteI guess all the protestors not wearing masks was no problem.
DeleteHey 10.16. You Democrat. You Dumb.
DeleteAny gay bars in the mayor’s crackdown? Didn’t think so.
ReplyDeleteNo it is about destroying small businesses, they don't give campaign contributions.
ReplyDeleteThe boy blunder is playing a mayor on tv and the fat fake Rex is playing a dr on twitter.
ReplyDeleteWhat can go wrong?
Everything.
The Media in KC doesn't ask any tough questions to the Mayor or hold him accountable for his actions.
ReplyDeleteEPISODE 2
ReplyDeleteFAIRY TALES WITH QUINTON LUCAS, FEATURING FAKE-DR. ARCHER
The City Hall narrative is that local government cares about your health and MUST enact drastic measures to protect you from a coronavirus which only manages to kill 1% or less of those in advanced age groups who contract the virus. Those who unfortunately succumb to the respiratory complications of this coronavirus are typically already in poor health, battling other medical conditions, and oftentimes residing in care facilities.
As of July 2019, less than 6.61% of Americans were in the 85 and over age group.
Is KCMO focusing upon protecting this vulnerable demographic? No
Are most 85+ year-old residents active in the workplace? No
Are most 85+ year-olds patronizing restaurants/bars after 10:00PM? No
Are most 85+ year-old residents present in the public schools and universities? No
In what other instance does society impose restrictions upon all of the population to protect a fraction of the whole? According to the CDC, every year in the U.S., cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. As well, excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 95,000 deaths in the United States each year, or 261 deaths per day.
KCMO has NOT banned smoking and alcohol in the City, but instead allows adults to make their own decisions.
According to fake-Dr. Archer's KCMO Health Department, as of 11-24-20, there have been 21,270 "Lab Confirmed Cases", 269 deaths, and a Death Rate of 55.88 per 100,000 residents.
What does "Lab Confirmed Cases" mean? This means that someone's lab test was determined to be positive for coronavirus. It does not mean the PCR lab test was performed accurately (multiple regional labs are using faulty thresholds). It does not mean the virus particles detected were capable of being infectious. It does not rule out a false positive result. It does not mean the individual has symptoms. It does mean the individual is at risk. In fact, in the absence of clinical symptoms, there is arguably NO reason for anyone to be tested for the coronavirus.
Of the 269 deaths reported in KCMO, wouldn't it be helpful to know that most of these occurred in the advanced 80-85+ age group? The KCMO Health Department previously made this data available graphically on their website until people started highlighting it, then they removed it. Wonder why?
If you accept the stated COVID-19 death rate of 55.88 per 100,000 residents in KCMO per the KCMO Health Department, how does that compare to other diseases/conditions which kill KCMO residents? I'll give you the top two below. Does KCMO impose mandatory cardiovascular and cancer screenings upon residents? Why not, if these 2 each claim multiple times more lives than the coronavirus? I thought Lucas and Archer said they cared about me.
Heart Disease -- death rate of 201.5 deaths per 100,000 population
Cancer -- death rate of 198.6 deaths per 100,000 population
Sources: KCMO Health Department, Office of Data Dissemination & Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services, Bureau of Health Care Analysis & Data Dissemination, Vital Statistics, 2015 - 2018
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Is the City of KCMO, Quinton Lucas, and fake-Dr. Archer more interested in "Racial Equity" initiatives than actually working to promote the health and well-being of KC residents? Sadly, that would appear to be the case.
"We created an environment in which Black/African American and immigrant workers of color could only access lower wage jobs that put them at higher risk of contracting COVID-19.
With already less access to healthcare and, more often than not, receipt of lower-quality health care than their white counterparts, Black/African American, Asian, and Hispanic/Latinx residents have more often tested positive for the disease, been hospitalized and have higher death rates due to COVID-19. "
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The reality is that restaurants and bars are being force to close because people, mostly white people, refuse to stay home and wear masks, social distance, in other words follow the science. Instead they continue to act as if the virus spread is a hoax. The people are the blame for these business failures. White people have made a complete mess of this whole pandemic. Thanks white America
ReplyDelete10:57 dead on the money, best comment of the day.
ReplyDeleteIt's a fuckin hoax.
Democrats are destroying everything in hopes of the "Great Reset".
Disgusting. All of these small business' going down the tubes for NO FUCKIN REASON AT ALL.
What a fuckin joke.
More idiots wrecking everything.
ReplyDeletehttps://redstate.com/scotthounsell/2020/11/24/new-mexico-essential-businesses-closed-by-governor-for-two-weeks-n284808
Read that article. It sums up EXACTLY what happens when politicians with no business experience start messing around with the economy.
Democrats are seriously brain dead.
Closed circuit to chuck, please die
Delete10:57 its funny how a retired auto mechanic knows so darn much about everything that he writes a book on Tony's blog... take a breath dude
ReplyDeleteOh, Chimpy/11:10, it's funny how an ADHD monkey flunked KCPS Hooked on Ebonics, and only wishes he could comprehend 10:57's "book".
DeleteWell now that they claim almost half (46%) of our city has COVID, I guess the Q only has what is in front of him. I try to ask what I'd do if I was in his shoes, and to be honest, I don't know if I'd make the right decision. The curfew thing is stupid. It's not like COVID shuts down after 10pm.
ReplyDeleteQ needs to be more reasonable and quit pandering to his base. KC will have nothing and will be broke.
The mayor here and Democrat officials all over America, are killing small business' on purpose. There is no other explanation. It's insane.
ReplyDeleteAnd do tell us what that purpose would be? To destroy the tax base? To eliminate jobs? To introduce....
ReplyDeleteCOMMUNISM?
^^11:29, The Marxist minions of flyover country are "just following orders" from the China Blackmailed Bidens and their other heroes Nazi Newsome and Khemir Rouge Cuomo.
ReplyDelete@11:03 White people? Really? You're more racist than all others on this thread with that comment. I supposed the "black people" can dig us out of this hole and bring back prosperity to the American peeps. Stupid!
ReplyDeleteThis what the leftist voted for.
ReplyDeleteAbstain from msm then turn it on and you will the propaganda and brainwashing.
The msm reports cases, not numbers of sick. Over 80% never know they have it, other get a cold, very few sick or die and those numbers are suspect.
If you go to the hospital for anything you get a test, positive asymptomatic cases are covid hospitalizations even if there for cancer, heart attack etc.
Biggest scam ever.
Don't believe your lying eyes believe the ppl being paid millions to brainwash you for the billionaire globalist making a killing with shutdowns n worthless vaccines for a fake plague with 99.5% recovery rate.
PS 1057 right on the money.
PHUK all Restaurants, Restaurant workers and Patrons of Restaurants. The new communist, socialist or social democracy flag ( depends which left you ask) will take care of us from cradle to grave. We just need special interest Persons in all key positions. Then we will taste the Skittles Rainbow of pixie dust and free ride.
ReplyDeleteIt's so cute when you QAnon CHUDS start talking like you've got some bright ideas.
ReplyDeleteIts even cuter when adhd buy uses the same lame word for the last 7 months...go die Antifa boi
DeleteThe virus is definitely made worse by the Democrats party. People don't ever vote for these people again. Also don't forgive. There are alot more restaraunts that have supposibly closed for winter. Westport Ale house. County Road Ice house. Great establishments. This Democrat mayor is deliberately trying to hurt these businesses. Now there expecting them. Holding them by the collar. There choking them out. Its all deliberate. Places like Joplin Mo aren't doing this to there restaraunts. This is happening in Democrat controlled cities
ReplyDelete^^^ Here's the thing, the election was rigged. PEOPLE DIDN'T VOTE FOR THEM, BUT, BECAUSE THEY ARE SO CORRUPT, THEY, LIKE IN CHINA, RUSSIA ETC. ARE IN CHARGE.
ReplyDeleteThe authoritarian states and their mini dictators are pushing the boundaries to see how far they can go without significant resistance. They figure people won’t come out in mass to protest for bars, so once that becomes acceptable they will push the envelope further. Just like the other article about confiscating private property in Boston, MA people aren’t going to protest in large numbers for hotels that might be confiscated. They figured people wouldn’t come out in large numbers because of restrictions on church. This will continue to creep, the next health emergency is climate change. The dictators are boiling the frogs slowly. You’d have to have never seen handwriting or a wall not to know what is happening.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if mr. mayor and Frank White will take this destruction into consideration with respect to property taxes.
ReplyDeleteAll bars and other businesses forced to close should at minimum be given a property tax reduction for the prorated amount of the closure.
It is unfair to tax property tax if you are shut down for government benefit. These businesses will be also robbed of unemployment claim money.
Bu the way, it is so weird, but I notice we are having a really great flu season. No one seems to be getting the flu.
Huh...
Covid doesn’t like you drinking, or going to church, or singing. It doesn’t like you walking against the arrows.
ReplyDeleteIt’s ok with you rioting, screaming, looting, and burning during "Peaceful Protests" which even mr. mayor can pass on a mask.
Covid threatens the poor frontline healthcare workers, but avoids the (actually) poor grocery store workers who encounter hundreds of strangers a day, and handle all their items and money.
Here in KC, you can take off your mask if you are sitting on a barstool before 10PM. Apparently, WuFlu discriminates vertically. Sitting vs. standing vs. barstools. And none of it makes a lick of sense.
Actually I guess that is good news. Covid will stay away as long as you are sitting down. It must have mutated into a new strain that hovers at chair level. Maybe they should have people crawl across the floor to stay out of it’s range. I mean, that's what they want anyway, all of us on our knees.
6:54
ReplyDeleteWell, since March worldwide flu cases have dropped by 98 to 99 percent. The CDC has stopped reporting flu numbers.
We all have snippets of RNA from the coronavirus that causes common colds and the PCR WuFlu tests use a completely absurd number of reactions to achieve positives (often false). I believe that every WuFlu case atp is nothing more than a coronavirus cold or the flu.
Im sure I read this in one of the many technical reports Ive seen and I could be wrong here but I dont believe that an actual complete WuFlu genome has ever been found. Everything up to now has been extrapolation.
There are some bars that homosexuals go to so they can suck cock and get buttfucked. Do they have curfews too?
ReplyDeleteMy personal cell is 816-679-1662. Call or text me and let me know how I'm doing!
ReplyDelete10:16 PM: Irrational bullshit.
ReplyDelete^^^ nobody pays attention to him anymore, those people have brain damage from listening to cnn and msdnc too much, it’s irreversible.
ReplyDeleteYou get absolutely NO SYMPATHY from me KC. Beg somebody for a quarter and directions to a pay phone if any still exist there and call somebody who cares. Stay the course Q Ball. FINISH THE PLACE! 😏🍿
ReplyDeleteOh, great, you're back? Swell, comments to skip over.
DeleteOn the Sunday before the March shutdown, we went to a chain steakhouse for dinner. Patrons were seated apart from other parties, all menus, condiments, etc. had been removed from tables to a central spot and wiped down before giving to customers. These rules are unfairly targeting certain sectors of the economy for no other reason than to give the political appearance of “caring”. They hope you will remember they “cared” during their next election. Don’t worry. We will remember. Q really just wants to be in Washington and on TV anyway. The electorate may speed his departure.
ReplyDeleteWhere's an overturned Adderall truck when he needs one? 😏
ReplyDeleteUp your ass perhaps. I'd check.
DeleteEverything will make sense once you accept the fact that billionaires who own the media and the democrat and republican parties are making billions off lockdowns and personal protective equipment, vaccines and destroying small businesses.
ReplyDeleteJust look at the stock market...it measures the success of large globalist corporations not local restaurants and small businesses.
@10:57, who tf are you? That's an excellent take, concise (despite millie's ability to pay attention to anything over 140 characters), referenced, and factual. On top of that, its well formatted, grammatically and mechanically well written. You've got to be the rare professional writer/reporter presumably in the MSM that can actually think critically. Thanks.
ReplyDelete^^^ He's a reader of the Epoch Times online, who knows how to cut-and-paste, run a search-and-replace putting "Kansas City" in place of "Chicago", and then insert a few lines copying the same style.
ReplyDeleteMost of the white folks who are blaming the mayor for shutting down would be the same who would blame him if he let everything stay open and hundreds more die. He's doing the right thing
ReplyDeleteThanks racist! No surprise you like a useless diversity hire.
DeleteQ Ball's cure is worse than the disease Enjoy Kansas City! I saw this coming and got the hell out early on. It's ok though. Your masks and some more bed wetting will save you.
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Lies and fake news continue to rise
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