Vape Shop Owner Refuses to Close - "#WeWillNOTComply"
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He will. Been issued at least 4 verbal warnings, but no citations yet as of 4/7 (date of article's publishing).
Quote from the CDC:
"Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers."
Here in CA, vape shops are closed but smoke shops are open
"Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers."
Here in CA, vape shops are closed but smoke shops are open
This has all became Orwellian, Big Brother is watching and controlling our daily lives.
Quote from the CDC:
"Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers."
Here in CA, vape shops are closed but smoke shops are open
That is nearly half a million deaths yet tobacco is legal. And how many have actually died from Covid-19? What is the latest projection from our vaunted "experts"? Tobacco legal but shut down the economy on a SWAG from a group never employed anywhere but government.
I wonder if any of the economic pain is visited upon our "experts". Nope, their paychecks, from us, are still rolling in.
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To quote Moses "Let my people go". Give us all masks and let America open up. IMHO they have just about ruined the American way of life. People in hospice forced to die alone, nursing homes allow no visitors, which is all they have to look forward to. How much longer can we allow President oops Dr. Fauci to shut this country down? Hell he doesn't even follow his own social distancing rule.
You do understand there is no federal stay at home order. The fed makes it's recommendation and the states implement what the state wants. There are some states with no stay at home orders.
Since you're a medical professional what would your suggestion be?
He gave his recommendation, "Give us all masks and let America open up". I agree with that suggestion. Dr Fauchi doesn't want herd immunity so the health care system is not "over whelmed". It isn't over whelmed, it isn't even "whelmed" except in a few cities. Whole states need not suffer the same restrictions as does NYC or Detroit or Atlanta. Louisville, KY and my very rural part of KY are vastly different and should be treated differently.
The 245 people dead so far in my county probably wish we listened to the scientists and health professionals sooner. I can understand both the passion and self interest of a vape shop owner but his interests aren't as important as saving lives in the near term.
Correction: since I started this post, it's now 246.
Correction: since I started this post, it's now 246.
What I’ve been waiting to see is shops removing their front door and replacing it with a protected walk up window. Solves most problems. When everything is over put the door back. GameStop tried the same thing. They’ve been in financial trouble hanging on waiting for the new game consoles to drop. It’s the companies that were really strained financially that are pulling stuff. There’s a small chain of resteraunts in my town that had all their money in a new location that was almost ready to open when the virus hit. The owner quietly closed all the stores without notifying the employees and skipped town with no final paychecks and all the waitresses tips.
The problem with that idea is that it only addresses the the social distancing aspect of these lockdown orders.
But if the state also has a restriction on the products sold, then this solution won't work.
If this weren't the case, every retail store could stay open as long as they do curbside pickups or deliveries, but this isn't the case in most, if not all, states that have these lockdown orders. First and foremost, the product(s) you sell have to be deemed "necessary".
The vape shop owner has a good point when pointing the finger at stores that only sell liquor or only sell liquor and cigarettes being deemed "necessary". But his argument falls short with convenience stores since they all sell necessities, like drinks and food in addition to non-necessities...so do grocery stores.
Detroit area really sucks, and I feel sorry for you guys. My area took some of your patients.
That said, this guy is doing "take out" service.
I think they could simplify a lot of these executive orders if they allow any business to do "take out style" service with a card reader type of thing (no cash exchanges, despite it being legal tender, until this is over. I know, I know, but sheesh. Or exact change only.)
The problem is that many employers would require people to work when they shouldn't, when they're not essential. But in this guy's case, he's the shop owner, so...let him. But he shouldn't be allowed to mandate that his employees come in for something that is not considered necessary.
Here in MI, they closed the tobacco shops too. He's a vape shop. Similar.
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But I don't have a problem with this specific example.
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