"Essential" Shopping During the Pandemic Isn’t So Cut and Dried

One of the biggest problems I'm looking at is who determines what's essential and what's not essential. Yeah, weed stores are essential. So we heard it like in Michigan, for instance, they were closing off certain parts of certain stores. Did you hear about this? No. So a lot of people took it because there were photos of seeds at Walmart or something where there was like tape saying you can't, you know, this part of the store is closed. And so the story went out that you weren't allowed to buy seeds anymore. The story actually was that stores over 50,000 feet had to close off non-essential areas like flooring and gardening and things like that. And who's to determine what isn't essential about any of those services? Particularly gardening. I mean, I was thinking like if there's a time where you want to have your own food readily available in your backyard, now's the time. Well even think about just general hardware. If they're going to shut that down, what if a hole breaks open in your floor, you know, your kid falls through it or something. You got to get that fixed. Yeah. I mean, that's a serious safety issue. So you've got these governors determining what is essential and what isn't. I heard a good argument for keeping liquor stores open because I was like, come on, liquor stores. But someone said, actually, it is to prevent people from going into detox, from having problems detoxing, or they would take up a hospital bed that we need, potentially need because of the virus. That makes sense. I also think about the reality of you take away booze in a time of a crisis and you're going to see people's nerves snap real quick. Have you seen the video of this guy jogging down the street and he examines everybody's recyclables? No. It's all filled with vodka bottles and tequila and whiskey and wine. And it's like, he just goes from house to house. He's like, let's see what they've been up to. Oh, well people are so stressed out. They're just getting hammered. Yeah. There's going to be a lot of liver damage when this is all... A lot of good horses too. Yeah. I heard that's going up. Oh yeah. People and domestic abuse and things like that. Oh sure. And suicide. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.