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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Yes they are not allowed to buy the other package. It's taken away from them with an apology. But it does hold up the line when you have people doing this with multiple items. It also means the person who came to that aisle a minute later, who saw nothing on the shelf, will miss out on getting that pack of TP
Imagine being that customer. You get there early because you know this is the new reality and you accept it. You get to the paper aisle and there's no TP on the shelves. "Le sigh" you think, and move along to the next thing.
Around 20 minutes later you get in line to check out. You see the person in line behind you with toilet paper. You ask "wow where'd you find that?" And they say "it was on the shelf, I just got it a minute ago, it was the only pack left!"
How did it appear 2 minutes ago when it wasn't there 20 minutes ago? Easy: 25 minutes ago, a customer ignored the signs and took two packs. One was refused at the register and the grocery clerk put it back on the shelf...just 15 minutes after you were there looking for one.
Rejecting the guidelines, rejecting signs, rejecting the fact that everyone ELSE is trying to do the right thing and to hell with them because you are a special snowflake..
that is WHY our toys get taken away from us. Because a few spoil it for everyone else.
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You make a lot of dubious conclusions. “Doing the right thing” is not equivalent to following bogus rules which gave zero impact on actual infection rates. There is nothing right about tyranny.
Why are so many rules being universally enacted by entire sectors of our economy without ANY proof of their efficacy? How do one-way lanes in grocery stores actually decrease disease transmissions? We all may wish these rules would “keep us safe” but they are simply propaganda designed to:
1)make you FEEL as if you are doing something good
And
2)limit liability exposure for the stores because they can say they took all the same safety precautions as was the industry standard.
Neither improves your SAFETY.
The WHO and the CDC said non-N95 masks are not effective. What changed?
Since no one has previous immunity and there is no vaccine, thinking you won’t get infected is not realistic.
Keeping everyone under lockdown to “flatten the curve“ also SLOWED herd immunity. We went under house arrest so floods of sick folks wouldn’t overwhelm our healthcare system but that didn’t change the fact that everyone will still be exposed & probably will get infected. We now know that most will not get very sick but some will get very ill and a few will die. It’s dicey to assume which group you or I will be in but staying “safe” by hiding from this virus for a year or two in hopes there will be a vaccine isn’t realistic.
Most of these rules are busy-work, feel-good measures and liability limitations—nothing more.