What is "essential?"

[bellisarius]

And who gets to decide?

I would submit to you that every business is "essential" to its owners and employees, I believe that to be a self-evident truth. To a lesser extent I submit that that business is also "essential" to those that patronize the business. Otherwise they wouldn't be in business at all.

What gives anyone, elected or otherwise, the power to decide which businesses survive the Wuhan Flu?

 

[hogjack]

Your job is non-essential. My job is essential.

Actually, this is not really difficult.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Nature decides.

Nature has decided that essential means providers and the provision of:

Healthcare
Food
Shelter
Electricity

 

[schism666]

And who gets to decide?

I would submit to you that every business is "essential" to its owners and employees, I believe that to be a self-evident truth. To a lesser extent I submit that that business is also "essential" to those that patronize the business. Otherwise they wouldn't be in business at all.

What gives anyone, elected or otherwise, the power to decide which businesses survive the Wuhan Flu?

socialism!

 

[Rightguide]

And who gets to decide?

I would submit to you that every business is "essential" to its owners and employees, I believe that to be a self-evident truth. To a lesser extent I submit that that business is also "essential" to those that patronize the business. Otherwise they wouldn't be in business at all.

What gives anyone, elected or otherwise, the power to decide which businesses survive the Wuhan Flu?

As I've said more than once. Every private sector job or business is essential to someone or it wouldn't exist. But the left likes to pick winners and losers and care nothing for the harm they do in the process.

 

[phrodeau]

Maybe it’s better to let those who know the difference between Covid19 and influenza make the decision.

 

[Curmudgeonly]

Maybe it’s better to let those who know the difference between Covid19 and influenza make the decision.

The similarities are far more important from a public health perspective. . .

. . .the differences only matter for accounting purposes.

 

[Saint Peter]

Tyson Chicken

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

As long as Delmonte is still up and running Vette can get himself some ass.

 

[jaF0]

As I've said so many times ... no government should be able to order any business to close that hasn't committed some violation.

But as to what's essential ... if a dentist's office isn't, what is?

 

[Saint Peter]

Meat is essential. Send the workers back in to slice and dice. War Powers Act.

PPE for hospitals is not essential. No WPA. Sorry. Send the nurses back in to slice and dice.

 

[Lancecastor19]

https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/trump-steaks-master.jpg?w=990

 

[SpeareChucker]

And who gets to decide?

I would submit to you that every business is "essential" to its owners and employees, I believe that to be a self-evident truth. To a lesser extent I submit that that business is also "essential" to those that patronize the business. Otherwise they wouldn't be in business at all.

What gives anyone, elected or otherwise, the power to decide which businesses survive the Wuhan Flu?

This was part of my warning from day one when it comes to government and its
proclivity to grab power which can only be wrested back from its cold dead hands.
It's exactly the same as issues of economic stimulus or regulations where government
gets to pick winners and losers and when it comes to winners ideology and contributions
trump all other considerations. I would list examples, but every single example pits
advocates against the idea that their winner is an economic loser and waste of resource.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Nature decides.

Nature has decided that essential means providers and the provision of:

Healthcare
Food
Shelter
Electricity

As to the first, try having a doctor's appointment over the phone, or Zoom,
because that's what they are doing as well as rescheduling. Try having some empathy
for those people whose procedures were considered "unessential" or the hospital workers
being furloughed and losing their jobs because they were engaged in unessential activities
and look no further than the hospitals that prepared for the very worst of outcomes and
are now bleeding red ink and in danger of going under, especially in rural areas.
That was a series of good calls.

And why does essential food delivery favor the corporate box store but not the
farmers market, the niche mom&pop, the small, local Oriental grocery?
Why do national franchises get to work under conditions which they can adapt to
rapidly while the mom&pop restaurant is probably closing its doors forever, only
allowed to operate on a scale which allows it to go bankrupt at a slightly slower
rate than just going out of business?
You talk about your good calls...

 

[Rotadom]

As to the first, try having a doctor's appointment over the phone, or Zoom,
because that's what they are doing as well as rescheduling. Try having some empathy
for those people whose procedures were considered "unessential" or the hospital workers
being furloughed and losing their jobs because they were engaged in unessential activities
and look no further than the hospitals that prepared for the very worst of outcomes and
are now bleeding red ink and in danger of going under, especially in rural areas.
That was a series of good calls.

And why does essential food delivery favor the corporate box store but not the
farmers market, the niche mom&pop, the small, local Oriental grocery?
Why do national franchises get to work under conditions which they can adapt to
rapidly while the mom&pop restaurant is probably closing its doors forever, only
allowed to operate on a scale which allows it to go bankrupt at a slightly slower
rate than just going out of business?
You talk about your good calls...

Do you want your Uber driver picking your fresh fruits and vegetables from a farmer's market? Didn't think so.

 

[Lancecastor19]

MAGA!

https://talkbusiness.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Tyson-Foods-Plant-Workers-WEB-732x384.jpg

 

[Ziggins]

In most of the USA, the missing piece is community. Italians temporarily maintain it with singing from their balconies. Americans in suburbs don't have any options between the internet and protests to end the shutdown.

 

[WillJ8787]

And who gets to decide?

I would submit to you that every business is "essential" to its owners and employees, I believe that to be a self-evident truth. To a lesser extent I submit that that business is also "essential" to those that patronize the business. Otherwise they wouldn't be in business at all.

What gives anyone, elected or otherwise, the power to decide which businesses survive the Wuhan Flu?

Every dopey American thinks they are essential and what they do is the most important thing above everyone else. Hmm, if you don't like being part of our country you have a choice, your free to leave if you don't like it. If your a patriot, it isn't singular. Being a patriot is plural.

 

[hogjack]

... your free to leave if you don't like it. If your a patriot, it isn't singular. Being a patriot is plural.

You have a choice of correctly using "you're" instead of "your."

Being a patriot also means using the English language correctly when possible.

 

[Saint Peter]

E


If your a patriot,

Go back to your third world shithole motherfucker!!!

 

[jaF0]

Farts are essential.


Without them, we'd swell up, explode and blast crap everywhere.

 

[hogjack]

Go back to your third world shithole motherfucker!!!

You do not know for sure he/she/it lives in New York City.

 

[Conager]

Do you want your Uber driver picking your fresh fruits and vegetables from a farmer's market? Didn't think so.

Why not?

It's same dumb argument that if you give a citizen a brief training course, a gun and a badge you are less worried than a citizen with more training, a better gun, and no badge.

What makes a person picking your produce from the produce department at a big chain store better at it than anyone who has ever selected produce for themelves? It ain't Sean-level rocket-surgery malpractice law.

I dont think much of your intelligence or judgement, but I bet you could pick me out a nice, fine ripened tomato from a basket of viine ripened tomatoes picked that morning by the guy that grew them.

 

[HisArpy]

Farts are essential.


Without them, we'd swell up, explode and blast crap everywhere.

The idea of writing a story about someone doing this in public is sooooo tempting.

 

[SpeareChucker]

The idea of writing a story about someone doing this in public is sooooo tempting.

South Park already did it.
You spontaneously combust.