New data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Tuesday continued to show weakness in the American jobs market.The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) shows that the number of new hires in February decreased to 4.8 million, which was roughly 400,000 fewer hires than wer...
Large gatherings were discouraged. But (at least in the US) nobody suffered any actual penalties for congregating.
Most places were closed because people were hiding from the deadly plague.
So much of this is conservatives who - at the fucking time were as terrified of the Wuhan Flu as everyone else - have retconned the COVID Pandemic to be a Fake And/Or Woke Virus that only they were cleared eyed enough to ignore.
Ummm… there were actual penalties in some cities for congregating.
https://apnews.com/article/covid-california-church-fine-6daddfd8325e7d63b9828092a69eca8a
And places in some cities were forced to be closed, not just closed because they didn’t have customers. My city didn’t allow some businesses to open at all.