Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

[Heisenberg]

I don't want them to suffer at all and I don't want to restrict online sales. I'm just wondering why some people support imposing these restrictions on supermarkets to mitigate the situation for small shops, but don't want to impose them on other retailers.

I'd also like to know how much the risk is reduced by preventing supermarkets, which are already open, from selling their full range of goods.

I know you don't want them to suffer at all, that's why I don't see the logic of talking about stopping online retail too.

You're right, I think it would be very beneficial for quantifiable evidence of how much risk would be reduced by not allowing non-essential items to be sold in supermarkets, but it does make sense that people who would only be going to the stores to buy non-essential items won't be going there now. That would obviously reduce the chance of people coming into contact with the virus as the less people there are in an enclosed environment, the better.

[BLUETIT]

I know you don't want them to suffer at all, that's why I don't see the logic of talking about stopping online retail too.

You're right, I think it would be very beneficial for quantifiable evidence of how much risk would be reduced by not allowing non-essential items to be sold in supermarkets, but it does make sense that people who would only be going to the stores to buy non-essential items won't be going there now. That would obviously reduce the chance of people coming into contact with the virus as the less people there are in an enclosed environment, the better.

What about the "Ozone lot", moaning about all these deliveries ??

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What about the "Ozone lot", moaning about all these deliveries ??

who's the ozone lot? never heard that term before

[LeningradCowboy]

I know you don't want them to suffer at all, that's why I don't see the logic of talking about stopping online retail too.

You're right, I think it would be very beneficial for quantifiable evidence of how much risk would be reduced by not allowing non-essential items to be sold in supermarkets, but it does make sense that people who would only be going to the stores to buy non-essential items won't be going there now. That would obviously reduce the chance of people coming into contact with the virus as the less people there are in an enclosed environment, the better.

It seems to me that the restrictions have pissed off a lot of people for minimal gain, unless supermarkets are thought to be hotbeds of infection.