Sweeping shutdown orders that fail to take into account population density, treating inner cities the same as suburbs and rural villages.
Whimsical decisions on what businesses are and aren’t essential, with no regard for practicality, sensibility, or Constitutionality.
Tons of food being thrown away because the producers and distributors that handle commercial sales have no customers.
Big-box stores allowed to remain open but restricted in what kinds of products they can sell, based on one man’s opinion of what people should be allowed to buy.
Houses of worship threatened with permanent closure unless they “voluntarily” shut down, but not applied to all religions equally.
Senior citizens standing in line at dawn for the chance to buy staples.
A black market in dog-borrowing for a chance to get out of the house.
Low-density parks and beaches shut down, because theoretically a group could show up.
And this is far from an exhaustive list; it’s just what I remembered from the past week off the top of my head.
America is getting an object lesson in centrally-planned economies and petty tyranny, and guess what? 90% of it is coming from Democrats.
Since I needed a few onions for my weekend recipes, I hit the second-closest Safeway. The only things completely out of stock were TP, flour, yeast, and sanitizing wipes. Everything else was present in reasonable quantity, although it looks like someone’s throwing a Tide Pod party tomorrow. Rice was abundant in packages of all sizes, so much so that there was an endcap display of jasmine rice.
The in-store bakery was keeping the shelves filled, but not getting a lot of business. In particular, the decision to create pre-packed doughnut boxes clearly wasn’t popular, because they made sure every assortment included all the unpopular crap that’s usually left over at the end of the day.
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