The utter absurdity of what you can and cannot buy in shops

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zulucat said:
If you limit what people can buy you decrease traffic to these places, decreasing traffic to these places means people won't be much in constant contact spreading the virus... My goodness the idiocy that MyBB has become! Must everything be brought down to your Grade R level of comprehension?
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There's many other ways of limiting time/contact in a shopping scenario.

The point is not being able to buy a candle or a car battery makes zero difference to the spread of this virus, and ultimately makes the end result worse. You do know lots of people rely on candles for light since the government hasn't seen fit to take break from squandering and stealing state assets in order to provide basic services to those in need, and that many of the essential healthcare workers need their cars to get to the hospitals and clinics and testing centres we rely on?
 
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zulucat said:
If you limit what people can buy you decrease traffic to these places, decreasing traffic to these places means people won't be much in constant contact spreading the virus... My goodness the idiocy that MyBB has become! Must everything be brought down to your Grade R level of comprehension?
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Loacal Checkers only allows a certain number of people in at a time. Only 1 shopper per family - although how they can tell I don't know.
 
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I can't help but think, if that guy on his bicycle wasn't arrested, he would have been halfway to his cigarettes by now...
 
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hexagon said:
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The irony of Reagan saying that and supposedly in support of smaller government. If he really said it.

zulucat said:
If you limit what people can buy you decrease traffic to these places, decreasing traffic to these places means people won't be much in constant contact spreading the virus... My goodness the idiocy that MyBB has become! Must everything be brought down to your Grade R level of comprehension?
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This makes the assumption that people are going to be going out more just because they can buy batteries or whatever item is arbitrarily excluded. That assumption is baseless. I can go shopping for essentials every day if I am so inclined even if essentials are only considered to be food. I can go many times a day. So someone who is going to go out for every little thing is likely to do it for food too. So the arbitrary product exclusion is the grade R level comprehension.

Aquila ka Hecate said:
Loacal Checkers only allows a certain number of people in at a time. Only 1 shopper per family - although how they can tell I don't know.
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I'd love to know how they'd police that. People can just pretend they're not from the same family. Anyway they wouldn't be able to bar someone who arrives with a child.
 
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My local "Friendly Grocer" (an OK franchise brand) was busy re-stocking their cigarette counter this morning, but refused to sell any to customers at that point because they were "waiting for approval from head office".
 
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zulucat said:
If you limit what people can buy you decrease traffic to these places, decreasing traffic to these places means people won't be much in constant contact spreading the virus... My goodness the idiocy that MyBB has become! Must everything be brought down to your Grade R level of comprehension?
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Yip, but defining a list of essential items is impossible because essential is different to everyone else.

Should someone be able to replace a lightbulb during this time if it blows - I'd say yes
Should chocolates, chips and soft drinks be considered an essential item? I'd say no
Should I be able to replace my car battery, I'd say yes
All barbers and hairdressers are closed, yet 2 of the Clicks stores I've been to won't allow you to buy hair trimmers - but you can buy hair dye

Chocolates and soft drinks are bring in more foot traffic than what car batteries would, so using the amount of traffic as the reason does not fit all the examples.

It's a tough job for the government for sure, but at the end of the day the thread title says it all.
 
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