Jaw dropping. Thank you Christopher.

@1 Yeah, I agree. Well done. It all so surreal.

Sosios produce
I used to work there. Was a fun job.

Though the newsstand has been gone a while it’s still a bummer to see.

@5 God, I hope this thing doesn't kill Bulldog News.

Thank you, Christopher.
Everyone stay healthy, safe, and sane.

@8 - and never again should anyone be able to drive along Pike Place. Now is the time to make it Delivery Only’ access

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Yes! That's the spirit!

This market is an altar to capitalism and needs to be permanently closed and turned into low income housing for the people.

The once thriving bustling market empty and desolate;
like Babylon, stray dogs wander, the jackal howls.
A great city economically destroyed- overnight.
All because folks were terrified to get the flu.
When it's heart fails a civilization it doesn't require armies or plaques to bring them low;
when fear replaces courage all it takes is the flu.

Since the 60s a sizable portion of the American population has strayed from the ideals, principles, values that make America great.
That civilization is dying.
Cringing, fearing, whining, complaining, blaming; dying.

When is is gone what will be left will be a vital energetic core that will blossom and flourish;
Americans once again will strive and seek,
struggle, fail, struggle and try again, and succeed;
not afraid of the struggle but relishing the opportunity to struggle and over come.

@14: @13 was being sarcastic.

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Yeah! Don't be afraid of the flu like the rest of the sheeple! You're a manly man's man, like from the 60s.

So badass! We're all impressed. Post some pics of yourself flexing at Pike Place and laughing in the face of this flu.

SWOON. What courage!

Is Three Girls open?

Honestly, the market is open air and probably the safest place to shop at this point. All the open businesses are currently:
DeLaurenti's
Pike Place Fish
Sosio's Produce
The Creamery
Three Girls Bakery
Piroshki
Michou
All the other produce stands.
A few limited-hours food vendors
Call any of the businesses you wish and place your order. We are all doing curbside pickup and working together so you only have to make one stop.

As for your journalism, Stranger, your sensationalist coverage of this is a disservice to those of us who are providing essential services to this great city. Shame on you.

Honestly, the market is open air and probably the safest place to shop at this point. All the open businesses are currently:
DeLaurenti's
Pike Place Fish
Sosio's Produce
The Creamery
Three Girls Bakery
Piroshki
Michou
All the other produce stands.
A few limited-hours food vendors
Call any of the businesses you wish and place your order. We are all doing curbside pickup and working together so you only have to make one stop.

As for your journalism, Stranger, your sensationalist coverage of this is a disservice to those of us who are providing essential services to this great city. Shame on you. Pike Place Market is the heart of our City and perhaps a ray of positivity in this bleak situation will we'll have served your readership better. As it is, you clearly don't care about the City your newspaper is to serve. That's the downside of this form of journalism. It may net you advertising dollars, but it costs you accreditation.

[Ever] "Since the 60s a sizable portion of the American population has strayed from the ideals, principles, values that make America great.* That civilization is dying. Cringing, fearing, whining, complaining, blaming; dying."

We got it: nearly almost Dead.

Ah, yes, the Culture Wars:
turning America into a Bunch a' Sissies
(can I say 'sissies' here at The Stranger?)
Sad. I know.

Well, sadder still, here's an Update from
the head Pussy Grabber el derr Furor:
(and I dont think yur gonna Like it):

"The grim recommendation, which the president made in the White House Rose Garden, came just a day before the end of a two-week period in which the world’s largest economy has largely shut down with staggering consequences: businesses shuttered, schools and colleges emptied, and social life all but suspended.

Mr. Trump said repeatedly last week that he wanted to reverse such drastic measures soon, perhaps by Easter, on April 12, in the hopes of restarting the economy.

But public health experts — including the president’s own advisers — had warned that trying to return to normal life too quickly risked allowing the virus to rage, increasing the likelihood of more infections and raising the number of deaths.

The president finally appeared on Sunday to acknowledge the possibility of deaths on a large scale and back down from weeks of insisting that the threat from the virus might be overblown.

In the past month, Mr. Trump has vacillated between accepting the need for aggressive action to limit the pandemic and complaining that such moves will harm the economy."

So trump was forced to admit the Citizenry is more Important (or equal to) The Economy. And to think all's 'prez' was asking for was for olde people to give their Lives, for the good of trump's Re-election Chances.

A very very Small price to pay, don'tchya think?

Say, you'e not in that particular age category, are you?

*wouldja mind listing a few dozen of them?
I'd love to hear what's missin'.
Thanks!

@22 -- was from Michael D. Shear in the NYT:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-guidelines.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

This is truly unreal. Thank you for sharing, Christopher. Everyone stay healthy, safe, and sane.

This reminds me of all the Boeing layoffs of 1969. A billboard on northbound Aurora Avenue / SR 99 read: 'Will the last person to leave Seattle turn off the lights?'

The great crisis Our President has to manage is the hysterical Leftist over-reaction to the virus,
not the virus.

A reasonable strategy would have been to quarantine old people (esp those in poor health) and let younger people go about their lives.
Younger people suffer none or mild effects from the virus (even less than the flu) and do not die from it. They could have kept working and the economy would still be humming along.
By focusing isolation efforts on a much smaller population (at risk old people) a much more effective quarantine could have been accomplished.

Furthermore, reaction to the virus should have been phased geographically, as the virus moves across the country.

The Left, from their innate cringing terror of all challenges and also in an effort to attack The President, portrayed this virus as some medieval plague, terrifying young people who have very little to fear.

the terrified media narcissists in NY and West Coast cities have been shitting themselves for a month over the virus, and insisting that the whole country shut down.
Quarantining those areas would have been more reasonable (but notice how buttsore Cuomo got when Rhode Island did the reasonable thing...)

The Left's insistence on politicizing the virus will backfire and a grateful nation will re-elect The President (seriously, has anyone checked on Biden lately? It really is frightening)
However the ill-advised self-imposed gutting of the economy and the financially ruinous bailout will cripple the economy and hasten the inevitable demise of the leftist Urban shitholes.

Not if, but when...

@25...reading your bizarre missive left me in despair. The Trump cult truly is the cult of death. You are beyond hope or reason or basic human decency, it seems. I would tell you to look at the news, but you already do. Go back to your Rush Limbaugh, your Breitbart, your Fox News. It must be very comforting to blame "the Left" for all the current problems. At this point, who am I to begrudge you the comfort of your religious beliefs? That your beliefs don't track with reality or common sense or morality is quite beyond the point. "Our President"--> "Dear Leader"--"Mein Fuehrur". You don't see it at all. It truly doesn't matter what he says or does. He could murder your mother on the street and you'd praise his wisdom. You are free to make like Dan Patrick, lieutenant governor of my home state, and die for the righteous cause of "Our President's" re-election by sacrificing yourself on the altar of capitalism. Mein Narr, du kannst dich gerne selbst zerstören, "Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein."

@21: Yes, it would have been nice to list the business still open - but this is not the occasion for a come-on-down-to-the-maket-and-shop as that goes against social distancing, right?

This piece is photo journalism. We all love the market. Christopher did a good job.

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You should despair.
Your perverse culture and your depraved civilization are collapsing before your very eyes.
As the right Rev Wright warned you, your chickens are coming home to roost.

@29 Tell yourself whatever you need to get by. Me and mine aren't the ones telling old folks to sacrifice themselves to save Trump's economy for the purpose of re-election. And in the end, it doesn't matter. What will kill me, will kill you, too. Those chickens are yours, too.

@28 I agree that we are definitely following social distancing guidelines; I think you missed the CURBSIDE PICKUP aspect of these businesses. I mean, if you want to shop belly to butt like I saw at a supermarket up on Broadway, be my guest. People will continue to need groceries and the fewer hands on the products, the safer it will be. You can't tell me just running out to get some celery that no less than 3 ungloved hands has dig through all the stalks to get the one "nobody touched" from the back is going to be ideal for produce shopping. What we offer is what the guidelines demand by the Board of Health in King County to remediate this epidemic.
Incidentally, on more than a few occasions, those healthcare professionals who are handling this situation have thanked us for our services in being open during this. They have also mentioned how angry it makes them to see r95 masks on people with no symptoms who don't need them.

We agree. Stay home. We also are here for you when you need ingredients. Believe me, this system beats shopping in a petri dish.

@25 there aren't enough tests to quarantine the right people, but nevermind, clearly you know best and the economy crashed for no good reason.

REPENT ALL YE SINNERS! THE TIME IS NIGH!

Lol

Ignore the psychos with deficit views of our great country and its people. We are resilient. It's only their culture of hate and cowardice that will pass away. Love will get us through.

33
What fancy tests do you need to identify 'old people in poor health'?

34
...said the residents of Jerusalem, circa 605 BC

30

"My fool, you are welcome to destroy yourself,
'And if you look into an abyss for a long
time, the abyss also looks into you.'"

You were right, Evolutionary
it DID sound better in the
original German.

I Miss Rodger "Dodger" Goebbels/Ailes
sometimes. Bellows O'Liarly? Not so much.