djembatheking
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You are wasting your time discussing with him mate . Some people don`t want to understand and it is one of the reasons we are in a mess now.We’re going around in circles here. They are two separate entities. Online has nothing do with it. It’s irrelevant to this discussion. Online has been deemed safe. It stays as is. There is no COVID justification to restrict online goods. Going to shops carries a transmission risk. In order to minimise that transmission risk non-essential goods have been banned. This is to reduce the numbers going to shops and the time spent in shops. Those same non-essential goods being sold in Tesco or in Argos is irrelevant - they’re banned. You’re “it may not be essential to you but others it is” argument can be used against your very position. Why close anything then? Ultimately someone will deem it essential.
“Affordable clothing is essential to some people” - Then why shut TK Max? Or Primark? Also...and I feel this is key...it is seventeen days!!!! This isn’t a year. Who hasn’t got enough clothes to last 17 days? And if they haven’t they’ve had a week to buy clothes to last 17 days. Or they can buy clothes online during the next 17 days. It isn’t hard. Nobody needs to read a book in the next 17 days. It’s not essential. Or watch a movie. Or buy a TV. See what I’m saying? I feel it’s impossible to stress this enough...it’s 17 days.
Ultimately I’m basically just tired of everyone trying to find contradictions in everything. There will always be flaws and logical fallacies in such binary rules. If Tesco was allowed to sell clothes you just know some clever twat would be saying “ooh look how clever this virus is...it knows when I’m buying a jumper at Gap but not at Tesco”. It’s tiring. Unless you have to leave for work or for essential goods stay at home. Ultimately that’s the spirit of the lockdown. It really isn’t difficult.