I thought of the other thing:
This whole nonsense of categorizing businesses as "essential".
We need to stop arbitrarily labeling and rather we should permit the reopening based on ability to meet certain criteria.
I don't care if you're a pharmacy. If you can't meet a reasonable and safe protocol then you shouldn't be open. And if you sell flavored cigarettes to underage kids, that's fine as long as you can do it safely.
A BBQ joint in a small town is different from a 5 star jazzy place in downtown.
Yet they're given the same status. The same time tables. Regardless of their ability to meet the new rules.
And I know it will suck for people in the big cities. But that doesn't mean everyone else should suffer unnecessarily.
This random and arbitrary labeling is counter productive. Massachusetts has screwed the pooch on this one. I can't think of a worse system and the governor is making it even worse with his last second power plays. You can't tell a business they can open on date XX, and then not offer the new regulations to allow them to open until that date arrives.
Yet here we are.
And because we're a blue state that likes to have the government stick it up our azz, we take it and ask for more.
It's pathetic.
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