Two! Two! Two Superspreaders In One!

A side topic to the evergreen one about how shopping malls are dying is how many malls bet big on theme park attractions as a replacement for departed department store anchors. And as you might guess, that's been a disaster. The rides and water park features are expensive to maintain, require going into a lot of debt to build in the first place, and the pandemic has put mall operators in a can't-pay position. Some operators, however, insist that it'll all be fine once the vaccine kicks in and people start to get back to normal, which raises the question of when you think that's going to happen, and if you're going to go back to the mall for rides and water slides and fake skiing anytime before 2021's over. (Wall Street Journal)

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