I understand this; everyone gets a little. The flip side of this policy is that it’s encouraging more trips to the grocery store & more interaction.
Before Corona, I’d go to the supermarket weekly; now I’m going semi-weekly; the first week is healthier eating while the second there no more things like salad in the diet. Meh, not the healthiest but by being out less, I’m less likely to get sick.
My neighbor has three teenaged kids; they go thru a lot of food. With limits like one gallon of milk, one container of eggs, & one package of chicken, they’re going to the store more often than they did before Corona so in some cases it’s not benefiting the community as a whole.
We can put limits on number of items and more households get something, although few get everything they want.
Or we can avoid limits and a few households get everything and most households get nothing.
Once again, there is no one answer that will make everyone happy. But given a choice between a handful of happy people and shit ton of very angry people, and the other situation where everyone is a little grumpy but more or less equally so, I’ll take the latter.
Since no government is willing to institute rationing (which is really what we’re talking about) which would issue some sort of card or whatever giving limits based on household size it is left to the “private sector” (i.e. individual stores) to do the rationing. And since the stores have absolutely no way to know who actually has eight kids and grandma to feed and who is just one person hoarding shit and/or reselling with price gouging on eBay, the stores impose limits per customer.
But they’d probably be going even more often than they are if on any individual trip they were likely to find no milk, no eggs, and no chicken; and had to keep trying over and over again in order to get any at all of those things.
A head of lettuce will last two weeks refrigerated easily if still on the core.Cut up what you need that day and next rather than cutting the whole thing at once or buying pre-cut salads. Yeah, leaf lettuce / spinach / etc. gets a little gamey the second week, but… Most other salad vegetables last a long time (carrots can last months; cucumbers are probably 2 weeks). So now it should be a change in habits (buy materials and make your own instead of buying pre-made) rather than a change in diet.
Here in MA if the smaller stores notice that there’s more than one family member in line they will only allow one to enter. Happened to us last weekend.
In Santee, CA (near San Diego), a man decided a KKK hood would be a good choice for a mask while shopping. Fortunately, he says it “was not intended to be a racial statement.”
No word on why he happened to have a KKK hood laying around.
Reminds me so much of a middle school principal in South Korea who got busted for taking an “upskirt photo” of a young student on a bus. His excuse was, “The phone camera accidentally activated”. Yeah, right. So what was the reason he had a phone in the position to get the shot he did during that “activation”.
Actually, my late father put it best: “Criminals are stupid. That’s why their reasons for committing their crimes are also stupid”.
I think everyone knows exactly why he had a hood hanging around (as opposed to hanging around the 'hood).
What an absolute dipshit. Article notes that the "sheriff’s department said Monday that during an interrogation with investigators, the man ‘expressed frustration with the coronavirus and having people tell him what he can and cannot do.’ "
So he’s a toddler throwing a tantrum. Hope you’re employed, you fuckhead, or else any job application means a quick Google of the person’s name and I sure as shit wouldn’t hire someone who can’t handle being told what to do in such a spectacular fashion … let alone hire someone who’s got a fucking full-on KKK hood just, what, lyin’ around a drawer somewhere?
SHOULD be wearing a mask, in this state it is “recommended”, but it is not required of customers. (We employees are required, however).
I have had two customers who masks stopped them from doing that action, so yay masks!
(Yes, I know, they’re hot, they’re uncomfortable, they make you feel smothered, etc. Wear 'em anyway to demonstrate you’re a civilized human being that gives a damn about greater society.)
I have decided that I am (almost) OK with people not wearing masks. It’s a very easily visible flag that these people are terminally stupid and/or self-centred assholes who don’t care if they make anyone else sick. They can now be recognized on sight and avoided without additional thought.
However, I am in a position to voluntarily avoid these morons, and realize that Broomstick and others don’t have that option. Feel free to continue ranting!
At least when I’m working as a cashier I have a plastic sneeze guard between me and those “terminally stupid and/or self-centred assholes”. The folks stocking the shelves not so much.
For the next couple weeks I’m mostly in the cash office because my counterpart is taking some vacation time. Then I’ll be taking some vacation time. So I hope that helps with both my exposure and stress level.
It’s going to be 90 degrees here today. My pants are going to be hot, uncomfortable, and will also be restricting airflow. When I’m at home, I probably won’t be wearing them. But I’ll wear them when I’m out in public, and I bet the assholes complaining about masks are wearing them too, despite their “freedoms”.
Hey, I fully support “kilt” as an option for men - really, much cooler in summer, having some airflow is more hygienic… Just so long as ya’ll know how to sit properly in them without flashing the world.
No sympathy here for non-mask-wearing customers. You’re in the store for anywhere from 10 to 45 minutes. Live with it.
My state requires them when inside anywhere (exceptions for health issues, young kids, or while eating/drinking). I haven’t been inside a regular grocery store for over 3 months anyway so I don’t know how prevalent they are; at the local garden store / produce shop, pretty much all the customers are wearing them.
A recent news article shows a fellow getting into a Lyft ride and becoming VERY abusive to the driver who asked him to either put on a mask or at least cover his face with his shirt. This, despite Lyft’s stated policy that drivers AND passengers are REQUIRED to wear masks (the driver was masked).
I found myself doing that just the other day, and realized the stupidity of what I was doing when I had to reach under my mask to wet my fingers. But what was I supposed to do? All I had in my wallet were two(new?) fives, and they were stuck together.
But the cashier wasn’t wearing a mask, so I doubt that she cared.
