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This is neat. Opentable has data on restaurant reservations compared with same day last year opentable.com/state-of-indus…. It suggests that even in states that have "reopened" people are staying home 1/
A couple of implications. On one side, surge in new infections may be smaller than feared, because people aren't changing behavior that much. On the other, economic bounceback may be muted for same reason 2/
I do wonder, though, whether online restaurant reservations are a high-SES thing, and may not reflect how many people crowd beaches and so on. I.e., we might get a surge in contagion risks without much economic activity — worst of both worlds. Pure speculation, of course 3/
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