> > The problems: > > 1) grocery stores are swamped with disease-spreading > customers stripping the shelves. >
2) sit-down restaurants are shuttered and staffs are > laid off. Many people aren't working and aren't getting any income. 40% of Americans can't afford a $400 emergency. As most working class folks settle into survival mode, I suspect, like me they're thinking about how to conserve and stretch what they have and then only buy the bare essentials when needed. *With the exception of some short-term panic buying. 2. There's already a slew of food & grocery delivery apps. Why not let those people who are already well versed in this service adapt, innovate, retool? 3. The opportunity: > > Can we use software and the internet to convert those > idle restaurants (with their kitchens, refrigerators, > tables, parking lots, and food-permit-trained staffs) > into expansion hubs for home delivery of groceries > and sundries to homebound customers? Real Soon Now? > "Food permit trained staff" doesn't equal non-SARS-Cov2 staff as people can't get tested and current epidemiologocial knowledge of SARS-Cov2 suggests that people can carry and transmit the virus with little and maybe even no symptoms This is just the beginning. Confirmed cases in the U.S. have doubled since this past Tuesday. My point here is that we don't have a clear grasp on the scope and scale of this pandemic. The social and economic landscape is going to change in ways that we can't imagine right now. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
