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> which direction we should walk down the aisle in the grocery store I could be wrong, but wasn't this the stores setting those rules and not the central gover

by jghn 5y ago

> which direction we should walk down the aisle in the grocery store I could be wrong, but wasn't this the stores setting those rules and not the central government? And if I did manage to be correct there, that'd be capitalism at work. Customers could choose to do business with companies setting those rules. And if enough people voted with their wallets, stores wouldn't have those rules. The people I see "raging" about these things are the same ones I see promoting free markets and things like that. If I was incorrect, well, ignore me.

lp0_on_fire 5y ago
> I could be wrong, but wasn't this the stores setting those rules and not the central government? The majority of those stores were reacting to the hysteria and outright propaganda being pushed by the political class and their allies in the media. Do you not remember the cries of "You're killing grandma" and the "naming and shaming" for questioning the orthodoxy promogulated by Fauci et al?
- jghn 5y ago
  Sure. And that's the free market at work. Those companies chose to take the actions they did. As I said, the people raging about masks have a high correlation with people who talk about free markets, corporate rights, etc. It's the inconsistency that irks me here.
c22 5y ago
I went to a shop near the beginning of the pandemic that had a bunch of stickers splayed across the floor in a confusing array and an employee who was militantly yelling at confused people for standing on the wrong stickers. It was very off putting and I stopped going to that shop, preferring others that also had stickers on the floor but with clearer labels and calmer staff. I noticed that the first business was boarded up about 6 months ago.
- jghn 5y ago
  I agree. My shopping habits did shift due to the pandemic. Some places suited my preferred variables more than others and I chose to give them my business instead of places I had been frequenting. Between that and the supply chain issues I found a silver lining. There are several full size grocery stores and another dozen or so specialty markets within a couple of miles of me. And now I have a good sense of their relative pros & cons. These days I tune my shopping to optimize for my shopping list.

by jghn 5y ago

lp0_on_fire 5y ago

> I could be wrong, but wasn't this the stores setting those rules and not the central government? The majority of those stores were reacting to the hysteria and outright propaganda being pushed by the political class and their allies in the media. Do you not remember the cries of "You're killing grandma" and the "naming and shaming" for questioning the orthodoxy promogulated by Fauci et al?

jghn 5y ago
Sure. And that's the free market at work. Those companies chose to take the actions they did. As I said, the people raging about masks have a high correlation with people who talk about free markets, corporate rights, etc. It's the inconsistency that irks me here.

c22 5y ago

I went to a shop near the beginning of the pandemic that had a bunch of stickers splayed across the floor in a confusing array and an employee who was militantly yelling at confused people for standing on the wrong stickers. It was very off putting and I stopped going to that shop, preferring others that also had stickers on the floor but with clearer labels and calmer staff. I noticed that the first business was boarded up about 6 months ago.

jghn 5y ago
I agree. My shopping habits did shift due to the pandemic. Some places suited my preferred variables more than others and I chose to give them my business instead of places I had been frequenting. Between that and the supply chain issues I found a silver lining. There are several full size grocery stores and another dozen or so specialty markets within a couple of miles of me. And now I have a good sense of their relative pros & cons. These days I tune my shopping to optimize for my shopping list.