It’s not about whether you yourself it at risk, it’s about whether you pass it on to high risk groups with high mortality rates, rates that are significantly higher than the flu I might add
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Apple Reopens All 270 Retail Stores in the United States
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Hey even Steve Jobs knew we felt this way when he announced the G3.
Apple is still restricting access with stupid temperature test, ask 6 stupid questions and after that asking what you are interested in. I said iPad and waited for a scheduler and got told that an iPad specialist will be available in a 1 hour and 15 minutes. You cannot go and just browse around the store either. There were around 5 customers that I could see and 8 associates on the inside. 4 security personnel outside in black and 2 in gray and one in white for total of 7 security personnel. Everything outside is roped entrance.
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Maybe if you limit it to responsible adults who are wearing a mask and using hand sanitizer you have a point.
Reality of the situation is that you are likely to end up with a mix of science deniers and toddlers running amuck in a store full of very shiny and very touchable surfaces during a pandemic.
So yes, you should wash your hands.
Hey I live in the Garden State and this weekend I dropped off my MBP for repair (had an appt). The manager was dealing with some hick women arguing without a mask that she has a right to go into the store and will not be buying online. She wouldn't leave as I went in and out and she was still there. I bet she uses the Apple Store to leave her kids there while she shops! And to put a image to the lady she looks like a reject from Real Housewives of NJ.
I was so excited by the headline of this article as I thought I'd finally be able to go browse iPhones. But looks like that is still a bit of ways away.
If you have a normal, healthy dose of fear, that is good. If you have a paranoia of covid, which is proven to be a mild flu like disease in the vast majority of healthy people, then you are misinformed and highly susceptible to group think syndrome, likely brought on by a mindless profit driven "news" media.
Take precautions, wear your mask, distance, get lots of exercise, sun, and live your life. That fear in you is not healthy.
2 weeks later: Apple shuts down all Apple Stores due to rise in COVID-19 cases
Apple employees were never unemployed, laid off, furloughed or any other term. They have been paid 100% throughout the pandemic, including when stores were fully closed.
Dear Karens*,
At the cornerstone of civilisation, basically dating back to the very beginning of when humans began to gather into communities, and do something other than hit each other over the head with a rock, is something called empathy.
empathy
noun
the ability to understand and share the feelings of another
By showing empathy, humans have been able to accomplish great achievements - like say making the iPhone - because we have learned how to get along with one another (without those aforementioned rocks), and put ourselves into other people's shoes, to think of someone other than ourselves.
Whilst you may be perfectly healthy, and not in the age bracket which COVID-19 is massacring globally as we speak, by walking around without a mask on, you could potentially spread the virus to others who are in the affected age groups. You as such would be hastening someone's death - possibly a great many someones.
COVID-19 may only cause mild flu like symptoms - for young healthy people - but there are also plenty of healthy young people who are now dead due to COVID-19. Over 20,000 people under the age of 50 have died from COVID-19 in the USA. Meh - guns kill more in that age bracket, I know.
Whilst the official death toll for COVID-19 is "only" half a million (USA only of course) - if you count people who fell ill with COVID-19, and then died from complications such as pneumonia or asthma - the real death toll is close to 4 million people.
How many people need to die for you to give a damn about this?
* Please Google "Bunnings Karen" to see if this message is intended for you, although I suspect you will know just by reading it.
At the cornerstone of civilisation, basically dating back to the very beginning of when humans began to gather into communities, and do something other than hit each other over the head with a rock, is something called empathy.
empathy
noun
the ability to understand and share the feelings of another
By showing empathy, humans have been able to accomplish great achievements - like say making the iPhone - because we have learned how to get along with one another (without those aforementioned rocks), and put ourselves into other people's shoes, to think of someone other than ourselves.
Whilst you may be perfectly healthy, and not in the age bracket which COVID-19 is massacring globally as we speak, by walking around without a mask on, you could potentially spread the virus to others who are in the affected age groups. You as such would be hastening someone's death - possibly a great many someones.
COVID-19 may only cause mild flu like symptoms - for young healthy people - but there are also plenty of healthy young people who are now dead due to COVID-19. Over 20,000 people under the age of 50 have died from COVID-19 in the USA. Meh - guns kill more in that age bracket, I know.
Whilst the official death toll for COVID-19 is "only" half a million (USA only of course) - if you count people who fell ill with COVID-19, and then died from complications such as pneumonia or asthma - the real death toll is close to 4 million people.
How many people need to die for you to give a damn about this?
* Please Google "Bunnings Karen" to see if this message is intended for you, although I suspect you will know just by reading it.
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It’s not only about yourself you know? It’s people around you as well that you could infect them with this carefree thinking.
'Please hear me clearly': CDC director urges states not to reopen too soon as cases plateau
The U.S. has hit a plateau in coronavirus cases and deaths that signal a "potential shift in the trajectory of the pandemic," the director of the CDC said.
The store near me won't even let you in the store without an appointment and for everything else it is just express pickup
Gesh that’s idiotic. I’ve seen one gym owner and one Instagram fitness star infected. One luckily survived after 2 weeks in coma and one dead after boasting at the start of the pandemic that Covid could never hurt him because he would bounce it off his ripped pecs.
The human body is very complex and there are so many kind of underlying conditions and genetic inheritances that can suddenly become triggered by a virus even in individuals who appeared completely healthy.
Out off curiosity, did you see the last report when the stores were closed? Apple is not putting profits ahead of public health. They are helping their customers get what they need done.
But nice hyperbole.
Your argument is as specious as it is insulting. But good try.
Look out your window. Do you see cacti or neighbors? maybe you are in the middle of nowhere but the vast majority of Americans live crammed into major urban areas... where covid flourishes in selfish people that put their personal comfort over the good for other citizens.
Take a gander at this population density map of your beloved Texas. Hint, red is not good for your argument, nor is lots of green (low population). How is your power grid doing btw? Bet a lot of people got vaccinated last week.
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Comments like this I have seen in the last year, are very calous.
It's like, well their health sucked anyways. Almost as if it was ok for them to die because their health sucked(sometimes by no fault of their own)
I'm sure thats not how you meant it but I have heard of over and over and it just seems like that's the case.
I live in a city of 200,000. I also live in the most heavily vaccinated city in the entire United States. LOL. So yes, a lot of people did get vaccinated.
Amarillo leads nation in COVID-19 vaccine distribution, according to national nonprofit organization
The city of Amarillo is reporting that as of Sunday, 29,611 people in the area have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, consisting of 11.2% of individuals in the area, according to a news release.
www.amarillo.com
Depends on the death/infection rates I imagine?
Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
www.nytimes.com
Am I the only one that really likes the new setup? Whenever I went to the Apple Store ... I knew beforehand what I wanted and didn't need to try it out, so I always ended up spending time waiting to be seen because of the masses of people in the Apple Store (pre-covid) that were there just to play with the display models. I really like the new setup. Minimal lines, instant in and out, bam done. My wife and I had to go to an Apple Store 3-4 times over the last week because of service to her MacBook. Never spent so short of a time at an Apple Store ever. Usually we spend 15-20 mins waiting to be seen.
AND getting covid tests mailed to their home regularly so they could self swab and ship back! Apple takes Amazing care of their employees.
I agree, the lack of checkout was annoying most of the time. But I've also used the Apple store when my Photoshop was acting up but needed to spend time on my design to get it out in an hour. I'd pop over to the apple store, use an iMac for a little bit to get my work done and be on my way. Total lifesaver of a store.
Its also popular among those who can't afford computers or computers powerful enough or with expensive software that people need. Amazing stories of people writing entire novels, publishing travelogues, homeless getting jobs because they can check their email and design a classy resume that's not made in Word 95 from the library PCs.
Apple stores pull their weight for a lot more than just selling stuff.