Just heard on CBC news that the US government considers churches and gun shops to be ‘essential services’ …
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Just heard on CBC news that the US government considers churches and gun shops to be ‘essential services’ …
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Widdershins Worlds 
Over here it’s bottle shops and hairdresses! Gun sales are up but the state government has placed limits, thank goodness.
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So a jet-setter could go out and buy a gun, get their hair done, get drunk and ask for forgiveness all in the name of essentialism. Insane.
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No gun shops here…churches closed, but alcohol shops are ‘essential’.
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I wonder what a comparison of what each country considers ‘essential’ would reveal.
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I’d be interested in seeeing what the populace think essential compared to government.
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Certainly not billion-dollar bail-outs to billion-dollar companies, that’s for sure.
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Makes you wonder just how the global economy is being reshaped…
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Indeed it does.
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Actually, the liquor stores ARE essential. It’s a sad truth, but there are lots of alcoholics and to close the liquor stores would flood the hospitals with people in severe alcohol withdrawal. And obviously, we need our hospitals to be as empty as possible to treat patients who have the virus. Plus, closing the liquor stores would mean more people going to grocery stores and walmart, where they sell beer and wine – and we certainly don’t need to overcrowd those place either.
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That’s a fair point.
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Sad, as you say, but true. 😦
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Unbelievable priorities
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It does boggle the mind, doesn’t it?
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Some businesses in England are likely to notice that the down-turn continues for them after this is all over with (please let it be over with, and let me – and all others – be alive then). Canal businesses who provide essential services are shutting up shop – not leaving open things like water taps, septic tank sluices and rubbish points, just locking up and going home. No-one would expect them to open as usual, but they could – as many others have – leave stuff unlocked, supervise from a distance, check and spray and wotnot out of hours, and keep themselves safe at the same time. I’m sure that I am not alone in saying that provided I live, I will always remember this, and those total-closure businesses will never see another brass farthing from me. Not vindictive, just a sane reaction to their demonstration that I can never ever rely on them. ;-(
Aside from that it’s all rosy here. We have no national “lock-down”-exit strategy whatsoever, no trusted news sources at all and a half-hearted and confused approach to infrastructure and services that is leaving everyone looking puzzled. 😉
To the closed businesses I say this – I have bolt-cutters and crow-bar (pry-bar, I think, in translation). They can sue me and I’ll be happy to explain to the judge, in great detail!
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I’ll be a character witness. 🙂 … the crow-bar/pry-bar got me quite a few strange looks here until I ‘translated’ for them. 🙂
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Fail indeed – far out, makes me so grateful to live in Oz … it’s all about perspective, isn’t it? 🙂
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Likewise, that I live in Canada.
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Yes Canada – even the young royals moved to Canada
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Gun shops? GUN SHOPS? Churches too – they are places of gathering, they should be closed, like movie theaters. People with faith could pray anywhere, can’t they? They don’t need churches. But gun shops? However I look at it, I can’t see how it could be ‘essential’. Makes me scratch my head. Good thing, I live in Canada.
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Me too.
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WTF????
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My thoughts exactly.
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That be your dumb clucks. I live in California where we have a good share of them. Fortunately for us we have the “f*ng libtards” in charge at the present. Last week, a local official in a nearby town in the next county ordered a gun store to close because the local public health dept. decreed it was a non-essential business. I wouldn’t be surprised if the dumb clucking powers that be put their nose in this case.
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God news about the closure 🙂 … and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s interference though.
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Toilet paper and alcohol seem to be the essentials here in Brisbane.
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Well, I suppose that takes care of both ends. 🙂
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Definitely 😂
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🙂
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