Saturday 13th February 2021, 11.45am (day 3,460)
The establishment in question is located somewhere round here but that sign isn’t pointing to it. Instead it just presides over a mostly empty car park, where there should be signs of visitors, shoppers, people just hanging out in the town centre on a Saturday.
One of the lies we’ve been sold over the last year centres around the notion of ‘essentia’ and ‘non-essential’ retail. Amazon can compel their drones to go work in warehouses that are centres of virus transmission, but I am not allowed to patronise a local bookshop, nor to buy a pair of shoes. This has been an unparalleled opportunity to shaft small businesses, one the Tories (backed up by Labour, who are even worse) have taken with glee, while puttng on their concerned face, and telling us it’s all for our own good. Not if you are a business owner, I imagine. But that’s OK, we can just blame them for ‘not adapting’, like not inventing a way to get nails done online. Sorry to break out into this again, but there’ll be weeks more of this crap yet.
Before Christmas the 3 places spreading the virus were, 1. within the home 2.secondary schools and 3. factories/construction. Closely followed by primary schools and Uni. One of those places has stayed open throughout (factory/construction), one is inevitable (home) and the other is the first the want to open up. Might have something to do with money and nothing to do with safety, all this methinks