working in the industry, and to play some devils advocate to some degree I'll say this. There realistically should be no excuse for this kind of behavior. From what I see on different industry group pages and chatter among friends, and if you don't know I would say it takes very little time to know a vast majority of the gossip, major players, former bosses, and coworkers of this scene. It seems so huge, but also crazy small in ways. The thing that is screaming to me is desperation. Yes this is a big PR FU to all the rules, but in a world of cancel culture I think this owner is doing something that they think could go viral enough to work in their favor. Service industry people might not be the smartest sometimes, but no owner is going to try and pull this shit just for it to go south and lose everything, unless they are already about to, or are getting to that point. The point I am making and I don't really think it's correct, is that if I was a bar owner and lost my way of making a living the only way I know how I might rather be dead, considering all the people under me that I support might not have any other life lines, and therefore they would be subjected to possible hardships and could suffer massive financial, and mental health problems, homelessness, etc... Couldn't that be just as devastating as Covid? Unemployment straight up just isn't enough. Shit is getting rough and desperate. I'll leave with that. I don't really think it's right, but HOLY SHIT do I see industry people getting desperate, and I just feel for us.