Oneonta Wendy’s Sign:
‘Enough Is Enough’
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Obviously the man is a fool who is more concerned with the almighty dollar than he is with endangering people’s health!
agreed
I stopped patronizing that Wendy’s years ago. I have patronized Empire Toyota. I guess its time to stop spending money there as well. I can’t support business owners that place their own financial success over the lives of others. People are dying. More will die if we don’t do this social isolation correctly.
So sad….we must all be in this together. Yes many are suffering without jobs but we must continue to social distance, stay home, wear masks…in order to flatten the curve and keep the virus from sickening and killing our neighbors and filling our hospitals. Otsego county is in pretty good shape because many are doing their part.
I guess he doesn’t mind people getting infected in his restaurant.
They are demonstrating at the Capital in Albany telling them the same thing
Actually, maybe he trusts in his fellow citizens to open their local businesses and the economy prudently, thus preventing the collapse of this nation as we know it! Have some faith in the wisdom of the American people!
Won’t buy shop his food or his car dealership ever again!
Kathleen Rutland, well said. He’s just another person who doesn’t get it. He should spend a morning in a NYC ER and ICU to see first hand what Covid-19 does to a person’s body. Starving for oxygen is an ugly, horrible way to die drowning in your own lung secretions. There is no telling who will survive and who won’t. Even young people and kids have died. He is an uninformed fool.
Do you people realize that Oneonta is not NYC, and that different localities would proceed on different schedules! Are you seriously saying that no businesses should reopen until the virus is totally eradicated? I do not know Mr Harris, but how dare you all presume that he has no appreciation for people’s lives? Maybe he cares about the lives of his employees, who have lost their means of supporting their families. Do you seriously think that when and if he is able to open, he would not follow the guidelines set by Dr Fauci and company? Do you realize that the destruction caused by poverty costs untold numbers of deaths? Before you cast judgement on a local businessman, faced with a complicated decision, think of all of the businesses and employees suffering the consequences of a destroyed economy!
I was going to buy another truck at Empire next week but being a nurse I can’t accept his stance – going elsewhere!
I always hoped Wendy’s would be framing our public policy.
He should know better than to mix his personal opinions with his business. Successful businesses keep business and personal separate. Agree or disagree, his businesses will suffer for mixing them!
I need an Independent or other non Dem-Rep President.
Going to Wendy’s for a burger and leaving with a deadly disease is not part of the deal. Keep your food and frosty, I shall dine elsewhere.
We are all in this together, and we must have the courage and discipline to survive. There is light after darkness.
Well, now I know where *not* to go, even when this whole things over.
I wonder how many preventable deaths he considers enough.
What I find more disturbing is a quick response to “dine elsewhere.” These businesses have a right to be concerned and express their concern. I’m sure he’s not wishing death to his patrons! Can we emerge from this situation kinder people?
Of course we all have a voice,but the science say social distance for know.
I prefer BK personally. HOWEVER, I will gladly patronize the Oneonta Wendy’s
When in the area on Saturday. I fully support opening the economy up. I refuse to give up my rights and become a sheep following a corrupt shepard to slaughter.
It seems most of you must have missed your naps or, God forbid, ran out of toilet paper. Make sure that you genuflect
if Bill Gates approaches. Gov Cuomo is in lockstep with the UN and the WHO and is partially responsible for the fear being generated by this evil Social Experiment. Has standing for your Constitutional rights now made us potential killers? According to the “POWERS THAT BE”: yes!
How unfortunate that people equate social responsibility and concern for the public health with following restrictions sheeplike or being blind to the damage a shutdown inflicts on the economy. Is Wendy’s not open to drive-through business, and aren’t the Royal dealerships open for service and shoppers who want different cars? (Their advertisements seem to suggest that.) We certainly are entitled to our own opinions, but we are not entitled to risk the lives of others or to choose which government decrees we follow and which we don’t. If in doubt, trust the science!
I once worked at his Wendy’s. Considering how he treats his employees, I have no doubts he doesn’t care about anything but money. I don’t eat there anyway and haven’t for a long time now due to the above mentioned experience
I’m not sure taking political or medical advice from a Wendy’s billboard is a great idea.
And, Frank, I’m surprised you don’t know where this really came from… this is actually an ancient alien disease that was uprooted during the recent Amazon fires. The soy beans grown on the Amazon fields are infected. The Chinese are the biggest buyers of Brazilian soy beans so they got sick first.
Geoff Harris. You’re bad behavior hasn’t changed. Narcissism has always been your biggest fault . This ignorance was in March . Luckily you don’t run New York because they did the right thing and now in July we are leading the country in lowest infection rates. In retrospect you look stupid which you tend to do because you can’t get out of your own way / ego. So I warn the public . You may see his kids running the dealership on TV with cute little kids in the commercial but make no mistake ,if Geoff is running it in any capacity beware. His kids are not to blame. They are good people .