Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Liquor stores are doing curbside too. Oh and it’s generating a state sales tax.

 

You've been posting some variation of this for days. I will probably regret asking, but what exactly is it you think we know we have to do?

 

It's pretty hard to argue that liquor stores - when beer, wine and booze is readily available in grocery stores - is "essential" business. It's not. It's a luxury store. The choice to keep them open isn't rooted in science. It's a value judgment.

 

Entering a convenience store is not essential, either. Shut 'em down!

They sell one essential thing --- gasoline --- and you do not need to enter the store to pay for it. Ah, but they do have another source of state revenue: lottery tickets. And cigarettes. All in the name of . . .

 

Bev-Mo is on DoorDash (at least in my area). So there's that.

 

Let's just say, you won't be asked to say ah

 

You've never been to a county line liquor store in rural Arkansas if you think they're a luxury store. Keystone and Busch Light are seen as high-falutin' next to Steel Reserve.

 

Booze is not available in grocery stores in my state. It is only available at the ABC store.

 

You can get Yuengling in Arkansas, so there's that.

 

It's not a luxury for anyone with an alcohol addiction.

 

Or a marijuana addiction, apparently.

My point, in essence, is pretty simple: They're not open because science. Like a lot of things, it's a value judgment. Science isn't "because sales tax revenue."

Right now, millions and millions of American kids are getting a lousy education. Beyond lousy - basically nonexistent - if they don't have Internet service or laptop/tablet/etc. Now, because science, their in-school education is deemed inessential. If that rolls into the fall? Or the winter? What if some public official declared "until a vaccine, no in-person school, because science." Consider the statement we're making about education. No school. No movie theaters. No sports. No church. Because science.

Weed tho...

 

In Pennsylvania, you can't legally buy marijuana without a medical card, which means you went to a doctor and got diagnosed with something that marijuana can assist with -- anxiety, chronic pain, etc. So, in that instance, it is science. Obviously, states in which recreational weed is legal are a totally different situation.