Went to my bike shop yesterday to get a spare tube. Bought a new rear view mirror while there as well. While they were putting the mirror on the bike had a look round the shop and noticed a previously $240 bicycle helmet marked down to about $150. Picked it up to check it out and asked why it was so costly.
Before answering my question the guy not working on my mirror said, "Due to the covid virus could you please just look at items and not touch them?" To which my reply was, "An apparently healthy young man as yourself should be more concerned about nuclear proliferation than the flu."
The helmet was returned to the rack and another bicycle shop will be saught out as my bike shop.
The problem is is that it's not just about him. I've always had the habit of having to feel the produce I buy so I know it's firm, a firm head of lettuce will last for weeks compared to loose leaf stuff, I usually buy a softer ripe looking tomatoes to use right away but firmer less ripe looking to use a week or so later, same with about most vegetables, if they are soft and squishy they'll tend to rot before I use them. The problem is I know I washed my hands but other people don't know that, just like they don't know if you sneezed on your hand before you came to the store. It's not just yourself you are taking into consideration it's others. Just look at the story of the woman who hadn't left her house in three weeks and tested positive for covid. Come to find out before she isolated herself at home she went to the pharmacy, they traced the infection back to her touching the keypad at the pharmacy.
https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/doctor-solves-mystery-of-charlotte-woman-who-tested-positive-for-covid-19-after-claiming-she-never-left-the-house/69-b2d53e36-21dd-44e4-8d52-3bb017a8a29a
Can you imagine for a minute that you touched that product not knowing you had covid then someone else came along and got it....the man's shop would be highlighted all over the news then everyone would be afraid to go to his shop. I know the chances are slim but that doesn't make it non existent. Then do a worse case scenario or one of those "you'd know it was just my type of luck" situations and the person who bought the product died...can you imagine if he had a camera in his shop and they trace the infection back to you having your face plastered all over the eleven o'clock news. Surely it's not what you'd ever figure for your fifteen minutes of fame. But weird shit like that happens all the time. Now your the town villain who managed not only to ruin a man's business but you killed someone....that's all people are going to remember.
For me I think I finally figured out how to solve my issue of squeezing vegetables....I am going to use one of the plastic bags they have available for placing your produce in.....at least I'll be able to eat my veggies in relative ease as I surely do consider myself to be one of those people where it would "just be my luck" to close down a major retailer and cause the death of someone and finally manage in my life to get my fifteen minutes of fame on the eleven o'clock news.
Well one must ask why now? People have been dieing from the flu since Christ was a cowboy. The numbers have finally been drilled down in my provence. We have had 51 covid related deaths in a provence of 1,000,000-ish. 45 of those deaths were from one old age home in the capital where occupants shared rooms.
So regardless of the fact that they should have sealed off the old age home and left the provence open let's see how bad the plandemic really was.... well judging from my 1970's high school math is would be something like...
(51/1,000,000)x100=0.0051% death rate per capita population. Although it has not been doubled checked my guess is that it is less than those killed in traffic accedents.
Exactly I feel the same way you do and we have every right, just like they have every right to turn away my business. I would be more worried about not having customers, a store, a job than a passing pathogen, I, unfortunately, have no sympathy you make your decision to believe what you want and should bare the consequences.
Exactly I feel the same way you do, we both have the right to decide how we see the situation no ones is superior. I would personally be more worried about not having customers than actively pissing off the ones you're getting. The shop won't be there very long with that attitude, but hey people need to feel the consequences of their actions and for that I have no sympathy