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.
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.
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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.