Quote Originally Posted by Heisenberg View Post
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.