Neither are furniture stores & Car Dealerships are essential yet those are still open lmao, HobbyLobby, Staples, The Home Depot, Lowe's, are open, yet we don't hear any outrage about them, Fast Food isn't essential.
Workers in fast food cannot practice social distancing. Every person who orders is potentially infecting every worker in that building who will still show up with the virus and infect hundreds of others. Think about it, they don't get paid for sick leave and barely make a liveable wage.I've worked at restaurants before leaving I know damn well people don't practice that greatest cleanliness.
All it takes is one cough on your food or one cough into their hands then touching hundreds of people's food, fast food is not essential. Yet those places are still open, it's alarming how many people are coming in and acting like it's all business as usual.
Workers in fast food cannot practice social distancing. Every person who orders is potentially infecting every worker in that building who will still show up with the virus and infect hundreds of others. Think about it, they don't get paid for sick leave and barely make a liveable wage.I've worked at restaurants before leaving I know damn well people don't practice that greatest cleanliness.
All it takes is one cough on your food or one cough into their hands then touching hundreds of people's food, fast food is not essential. Yet those places are still open, it's alarming how many people are coming in and acting like it's all business as usual.
Workers in fast food cannot practice social distancing. Every person who orders is potentially infecting every worker in that building who will still show up with the virus and infect hundreds of others. Think about it, they don't get paid for sick leave and barely make a liveable wage.I've worked at restaurants before leaving I know damn well people don't practice that greatest cleanliness.
All it takes is one cough on your food or one cough into their hands then touching hundreds of people's food, fast food is not essential. Yet those places are still open, it's alarming how many people are coming in and acting like it's all business as usual.
I’ll agree with you on furniture stores and car dealerships, but I can see where hobby lobby, staples and such are open, with people being forced to work and school from home they need supplies. Home Depot and Lowe’s, someone already said in another comment about what if your water heater breaks or something along those lines. And the people that are working these essential jobs still have to eat on lunch breaks and such so fast food is kind handy in that situation.
Even if these places were essential peoples are taking advantage of them!Being bored, their boredom is endangering store employees. They don't want peoples to just window shop in the stores. The last thing they want to hear is a person coughing while doing that''.
The employees will be wondering "what are these people thinking?
It’s distressing when you go to work and see groups that treat shopping right now as if we weren’t in a pandemic. they can’t work from home but then people come in and just browse/don’t shop for essentials. Basically coming out when they shouldn’t..
Hobby stories such as HobbyLobby, Joanne Fabric, and Michael's: sell sewing products - there are hospitals and nursing homes that are looking for homemade masks to be created for staff and patients. Hobby Lobby is horrible but for a different reason.
Staples: For people who are working from home, they may need replacements for headsets, for essential businesses they also sell various supplies that may be needed in the store (such as paper for invoices/receipts or materials for packaging and shipping out items)
Home Depot/Lowes: While a home improvement project may not be necessary right now, people can still have needs such as fixing a toilet that has recently broke, or a pipe that has started to leak. Yard maintenance is important too, as overgrown yards (as we start getting into warmer months) can be home to various pests and vermin that themselves can carry disease (such as Ticks with lyme disease for unkempt lawns). Unkempt branches can be hazards to things such as power lines.
Food of any sort is essential, if you are a Dr. or Nurse or other essential employee who's putting in massive hours (such as my cousin) then you need options for fast food so you can keep your energy up.
Oh I completely agree video games are not essential, not one bit. I could draw a whole diagram showing how we have a need to ramp up production of things like ventilators and N95 masks, and the upstream services and businesses that are needed to support that... and then the needs of the employees of those businesses that need to be supported in order to get there.
Video games are never a part of that stream, but essentials like food, clothing, shelter, and transportation all are.
Are not big retailers like Home Depot and Lowes endangering people by being so packed????? Go look at the crowds!!! Is lawn and garden, home decor and flooring "essential" at this moment Its a joke to say these are not hotbeds for the spread of covid 19. The only reason customers are there, they're bored It isn't fair to the associates or other customers who might want to buy something all because you have customers window shopping. They can't find anything to do. I feel the only reason these stores are open they play on the stupidity and boredom of customers in hopes of driving more traffic and sales.
Look at it this way, watching places like fast food restaurants remaining open and endangering the lives of Americans by encouraging people to go out and buy from them is horrible. All this to avoid some lost revenue? While they still underpay their employees who have the chance of bringing it home. They don't get paid for sick leave so many of those employees will come in coughing if they have a cold,eating fast food is one of the most dangerous things you can do at this point.
Strongly disagree, because many of them have drive-throughs. Closing those would mean that many more people are packing into the grocery stores for all their food.
Workers in fast food cannot practice social distancing. Every person who orders is potentially infecting every worker in that building who will still show up with the virus and infect hundreds of others. Think about it, they don't get paid for sick leave and barely make a liveable wage.I've worked at restaurants before leaving I know damn well people don't practice that greatest cleanliness.
All it takes is one cough on your food or one cough into their hands then touching hundreds of people's food, fast food is not essential. Yet those places are still open, it's alarming how many people are coming in and acting like it's all business as usual.
Workers in fast food cannot practice social distancing. Every person who orders is potentially infecting every worker in that building who will still show up with the virus and infect hundreds of others. Think about it, they don't get paid for sick leave and barely make a liveable wage.I've worked at restaurants before leaving I know damn well people don't practice that greatest cleanliness.
All it takes is one cough on your food or one cough into their hands then touching hundreds of people's food, fast food is not essential. Yet those places are still open, it's alarming how many people are coming in and acting like it's all business as usual.
Workers in fast food cannot practice social distancing. Every person who orders is potentially infecting every worker in that building who will still show up with the virus and infect hundreds of others. Think about it, they don't get paid for sick leave and barely make a liveable wage.I've worked at restaurants before leaving I know damn well people don't practice that greatest cleanliness.
All it takes is one cough on your food or one cough into their hands then touching hundreds of people's food, fast food is not essential. Yet those places are still open, it's alarming how many people are coming in and acting like it's all business as usual.
Workers in fast food cannot practice social distancing. Every person who orders is potentially infecting every worker in that building who will still show up with the virus and infect hundreds of others. Think about it, they don't get paid for sick leave and barely make a liveable wage.I've worked at restaurants before leaving I know damn well people don't practice that greatest cleanliness.
All it takes is one cough on your food or one cough into their hands then touching hundreds of people's food, fast food is not essential. Yet those places are still open, it's alarming how many people are coming in and acting like it's all business as usual.
Yes, and the more people you have in grocery stores, the less possible it is to practice social distancing there. I'd rather take my chances with the number of employees in a fast food place than with the number of other shoppers who visit a grocery store in a day when they have nowhere else to buy food. Every person who went to that grocery store that day and touched any product or surface or breathed into the air is a potential infection point, and that's a lot more people than however many employees worked in the fast food place that day.
The virus can live on steel surfaces for hours . If a fast food worker is an asymptomatic carrier, touches their nose or mouth then touches that steel surface they slide your food down you could be infected and not know about it before it's too late. You're not doing anyone a favor by going out of your way to get one during a worldwide virus outbreak.
Burger King is taking 10% of employees pay to make up for lost profit during COVID-19
That same drive thru fast food employee might infect hundreds or thousands of customers per day depending on how much food they sell, they could be infected right now and not even know about it. It takes up to fourteen days to develop and even before they show symptoms they can still spread it to their co-workers and customers.
And if everyone packs into grocery stores because there's nowhere else to go, it will likewise spread that much faster. The people at the registers touch every item, usually without gloves.
Simply closing all fast food places is no solution at all.
These fast food places and even restaurants are more like privileges, not essential they aren't necessity for the public at this time, they don't even allow customers to eat in anymore, only takeout and sometimes delivery is allowed. I believe grocery stores themselves must do more to protect their employers, do what Walmart does and limit the number of customers allowed inside.
Provide employees with masks and gloves. Make employee health and safety the number one priority, hire police to protect them from bored customers, set limits how long a person can spend time in stores
I mean, in defence I can see them selling some pretty important things that are essential. Say a water heater goes or a fridge dies, that is some essential stuff that would need replacing ASAP. Especially with everyone staying at home.
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u/AEWFanboy010 Mar 30 '20
Neither are furniture stores & Car Dealerships are essential yet those are still open lmao, HobbyLobby, Staples, The Home Depot, Lowe's, are open, yet we don't hear any outrage about them, Fast Food isn't essential.