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   Hello Shawn!   
      
   ** On Wednesday 13.01.21 - 09:01, Shawn Highfield wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    AA>> businesses are expected to operate at vastly reduced capacity   
    AA>> for nothing, while big-box stores, parks, professional sports   
    AA>> activities operate as usual.   
      
    SH>   I keep asking why does the virus not live in walmart but in lives   
    SH>   in small business locations?   
      
   Turns, out that this time Mr. Ford expects the big-boxes to     
   reduce allowable people-capacity by 50%.   
      
   Last time, there was a formula businesses were expected to use     
   to calculate what the max capacity of people would be allowed     
   based on square footage less the space used for shelving.   
      
   I guess, this time the number is cut in half.   
      
   BUT, I haven't seen the official write-up of this latest set of     
   restrictions.  I don't really want to look anyway.   
      
   So.. although they spout "all non-essential businesses..     
   closed", they still say "but employess must work from home - if     
   they can", or "operate curbside and by appointment only, but     
   only from 7a to 8p", or "online".   
      
   Well..   
      
   [1] my "online" = email.   
      
   [2] my "by appointment only" = when you show up, that's your     
   appointment.   
      
   [3] my "curbside" = extends 12' from the front door to the cash     
   register.   
      
   I have to travel to my work (I am sole proprieter, no employees)     
   and check for vandelism, receive potential deliveries everyday,     
   and allow people to pick up stuff that they've ordered or paid     
   for weeks ago, and... try to earn something so that I can     
   atleast buy food.   
      
   I'd love to be able to just pull some product off my shelves and     
   just take that to the grocery store to "buy" food. But that     
   ain't gonna work - is it?  Meanwhile, I am being taxed on my     
   unsold inventory because it has "value".  Sheesh.   
      
   I am not aware that my creditors are "closed". It seems that the     
   banks and credit card companies still expect to receive their     
   interest fees.   
      
   No f'ing gov't is going to tell me that I have to stay home and     
   twiddle my thumbs.   
      
   Meanhile, it is far easier for people to physical-distance from     
   each other, wear the d*mn mask and slosh sanitizer at my shop     
   than it might be in a place that is frequented more often by     
   more people all the time.   
      
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