PA Postpones, Doesn't Cancel

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Originally Posted by BillyMac

Meanwhile, liquor stores are considered essential and are open for business.

Joking aside I can fully understand why a liquor store is considered an essential business, not just because parents putting up with their kids never leaving the house could drive them to wanting a drink or that responsible drinking has to be done an home as bars are not open to sell alcohol.

If some one is addicted to alcohol to deprive them of it would require them to detox and with out medical supervision that would possibly require one of the hospital beds that need be be saved for those who need them right now, I'm not judging if being an alcoholic is something that should be protected or encouraged but I don't think it is reason to give someone a potential death sentence by either depriving them of a hospital bed or potentially exposing them to COVID-19 or due to giving them a bed depriving someone else a bed that will be in short supply too soon.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by stratref

If some one is addicted to alcohol to deprive them of it would require them to detox and with out medical supervision that would possibly require one of the hospital beds that need be be saved for those who need them right now.

My daughter, a nurse, who's on the front line taking nose and throat swabs at a drive-through corona virus testing facility, said the same exact thing.

Connecticut is basically a "shelter in place" state, by either mandates by executive orders from our state governor, or by local city and town ordinances.

Everybody in the state is talking about why some businesses are deemed essential and others aren't, not to seriously question these mandates and ordinances, but because we're bored and need something to talk about.

Dog grooming is considered essential, but barber shops aren't. Often discussed are the essential businesses of guns stores, fish and tackle shops, liquor stores, garden centers, dry cleaners, doormen, landscaping services, pool maintenance, and billboard leasing.

The guy who fertilized my lawn yesterday wondered why he was considered essential. Of course he works alone all day and talked to me as we were ten feet apart.

That proverbial ten foot pole really comes in handy these days.