Ready Or Not: Statewide Stay at Home Order Expires
Many businesses are a bit trepidatious and with good reason. Many are having to make the decision to open during one of the greatest pandemics the world has seen. Every day we find out something new about this horrendous disease. Most of it bad. But, with the optimism of a new drug treatment that greatly inhibits the disease and promises of an actual vaccine by year’s end, there is hope in the air.
While Texas has seen a decrease in the number of hospitalizations recently the death toll and case numbers climb. Houston has been very cautious in opening and closed many events including the rodeo earlier that many across the country. Most assuredly this in addition to Houstonians’ willingness to social distance has kept us from a New York experience.
On Friday and over the weekend retailers and restaurants were opening their doors for the first time in over a month due to the Governor’s decision to allow many businesses to proceed with limitations. Many businesses have decided it is too early based on the federal government’s guidelines of seeing a 14-day decrease in case numbers. Others have determined that operating at 25% is not really worth the risk.
For others, it was an effort to return to some sense of normalcy. Both Perry’s and La Griglia, two fancy River Oaks eateries, were doing brisk business with limited capacity. Retailers have been slower to move and malls and shopping centers stayed relatively empty.
Don’t look for any baseball or theater openings but we can only hope and wonder.