Is This Fair?

[ichkeria]

Or even sensible?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54662795

Clothes are non essential for 17 days while presumably chilli sauce, for example, isn’t ...

[dave50]

The whole Wales lock down is ridiculous. What happens after 17 days? Is the lock down eased? Then of course infections will rise again, then is there another lock down imposed? How many times, when will it end? These politicians and scientists sitting in their ivory towers making these decisions don't have to worry about losing their job or businesses, they are quite happy to preach about 'saving lives and saving the NHS' which incidentally is wearing a bit thin. I am now more concerned about the 99.5% whose health is not affected by covid, their jobs, livelihoods and treatment of other serious ailments which have been largely abandoned at the alter of covid.

[naomi24]

Shutting shops is potty. The whole thing is potty.

[lady-janine]

Can't help but think that if more people to be aware of the illness they could cause through being careless and selfish then no lock-downs are necessary. I cannot see that lock-downs are the answer. They seem more like a knee-jerk reaction.

[mushroom25]

// Preventing supermarkets from selling certain goods will not help the 'small shops' one iota. //

no. the only organisation being "helped" here is Amazon.

[ichkeria]

I’d be interested to know how those people who support this think it’s going to help the shops that have to close.
That is my problem with it, not really the issue of having to go without a new microwave for 17 days.

[New Judge]

//You have missed the point, Jackdaw. This is all about level playing fields. Can you really not understand that?//

How strange. And there’s me thinking it was about preventing the virus spreading.

//Be interested to know how many AB’ers have had the desperate need to buy a microwave, kettle, new knickers or pop socks in the last 17 days.//

I would be extremely surprised if the Welsh lockdown ends after 17 days. As I said earlier, the effectiveness or otherwise of it will not be evident by then. If it’s just being imposed on the off-chance that it might work that’s scarcely the basis to decide whether to impose such draconian measures on so many people. The closing of non-essential shops is a ridiculous measure. Most small shops have imposed over-engineered Covid restrictions and the chances of anyone contracting the virus in one of them is vanishingly small. I know not all non-essential shops are small but they are the ones most likely to suffer terminal damage because of this.

[Boto]

In Asda this morning most of the George items were barricaded and other items had tape across them e.g.makeup. Crisps are obviously a necessity.

[New Judge]

And doughnuts.

[royfromaus]

There's lovely

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/north-wales-tesco-shopper-filmed-19159067

[jno]

tomus, yes, that was my feeling at the time. It didn't seem right that the government was handing Mr Next's business over to Mr Tesco for months.

[New Judge]

It seems Mr Drakeford might have a rethink:

"We’ll be reviewing how the weekend has gone with the supermarkets and making sure that common sense is applied."

If common sense had been applied in the first place no such review would be required.

[ichkeria]

As I posted on the other thread, which appears, ridiculously, to have been zapped, I would live to know how they are going to check that this measure is “working!”