{"id":16463,"date":"2020-04-07T00:16:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16463"},"modified":"2020-04-07T00:16:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:16:20","slug":"american-innovation-in-the-age-of-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/04\/07\/american-innovation-in-the-age-of-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"American Innovation In The Age Of Quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What\u2019s a business, like a strip club, to do when it\u2019s declared a non-essential service?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Become an essential service\u2026 while still <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/03\/23\/strippers-staff-boober-eats-delivery-service-during-coronavirus-lockdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">staying true to it\u2019s core business model<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Strippers staff &#39;Boober Eats&#39; delivery service during coronavirus lockdown <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2umJn0rgzD\">https:\/\/t.co\/2umJn0rgzD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PqKlBu6m0c\">pic.twitter.com\/PqKlBu6m0c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1242104931215122433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn an effort to keep his dancers and kitchen staff employed during the coronavirus lockdown, a strip club owner in Portland, Ore., has created \u2018Boober Eats.\u2019 The service brings pub fare, delivered by strippers clad in booty shorts and nipple pasties, straight to the customer\u2019s door.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cShon Boulden, owner of the Lucky Devil Lounge, came up with the ingenious rebrand following Gov. Kate Brown\u2019s mandate to shut down all \u2018non-essential\u2019 businesses, which follows the national trend of restaurants and bars remaining open on a delivery and takeout basis only. Boulden tells The Oregonian that the idea began as a joke he\u2019d shared on social media. But when his community began to ask him for details on the service, he realized the business model had real-world potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While this may be a more humorous example of the ability of the free market to adapt in ways that some government central planner could ever imagine, it does underscore just how important a free market without excessive regulations or restrictions for providing economic resiliency.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Boober-Eats-Photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Boober-Eats-Photo.png 382w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Boober-Eats-Photo-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"American Innovation In The Age Of Quarantine\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"What\u2019s a business, like a strip club, to do when it\u2019s declared a non-essential service?\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Boober-Eats-Photo.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What\u2019s a business, like a strip club, to do when it\u2019s declared a non-essential service? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Become an essential service\u2026 while still staying true to it\u2019s core business model. Strippers staff &#39;Boober Eats&#39; delivery service during coronavirus lockdown https:\/\/t.co\/2umJn0rgzD pic.twitter.com\/PqKlBu6m0c &mdash; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/04\/07\/american-innovation-in-the-age-of-quarantine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,67,64],"class_list":["post-16463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economy","tag-free-to-choose","tag-lulz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16491,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463\/revisions\/16491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}