Shirley Leung Restaurant reservations and business foot traffic are down. Did Boston’s COVID-19 restrictions work?
Boston restaurant reservations are off by 78 percent on weekdays, foot traffic at shops and other businesses is down more than 50 percent compared with normal times, and the 18.2 percent hotel occupancy rate is a fraction of what it should be.
Only in a pandemic would such cataclysmic economic indicators be a sign of something that is right: Government restrictions to control COVID-19 are keeping people at home.
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