"Capitalism Always Finds A Way" - How Texas Strip Clubs Are Surviving The Pandemic



Scott Gottlieb said over the weekend that encouraging signs that the outbreak may have "peaked" are beginning to emerge in some parts of the Sun Belt - though the US is still far from done with this yet, and Americans should take caution. A few hours later, Texas health officials reported the state's lowest daily tally of new coronavirus cases in two weeks (as deaths in the state topped 5,000).
It seems Gov Abbott's belated decision to close bars, restaurants and other businesses for in-person service is having some kind of impact. Meanwhile, COVID-19 is no longer the state's only immediate problem. 
All the while, as volatile oil prices have whiplashed the state's economy, heaping more pain on the state's labor market, a group of strip club owners won a victory in Texas's conservative courts allowing them to reopen as "restaurants with entertainment", hosting what amounts to outdoor adult entertainment, mostly held in large tents set up outside.
Houston-based Vivid Gentleman's Club became the first “drive-thru strip club” in the state when it reopened just last week. A reporter from the Houston Chronicle described "black metal barricades separate the dancers from the cars, and dollar bills litter the asphalt between the white siding of the tent walls. The purplish-blue lighting casts a familiar (to club-goers) ambience over the scene, but obvious reminders of the pandemic remain; some of the performers are in face masks."

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