Yeah I get that I suppose. Seems really unfair for other small businesses that there seems to be this huge exception to the non-essential thing that everyone can see plain as day. Seems to me that it undermines all the importance of the stay at home order. If people are walking back from the pharmacy or grocery store and see a queue of 30 people outside a coffee shop in Shawlands that is totally permitted how long before they start to take the other restrictions less seriously? I think something like a bookstore could be open with 15 minute slots to collect outside and it would in fact be safer than what you see at coffee shops and I think it would be tough to argue that an oat milk latte is any more essential than a book. Either things are safe or they aren't and the inconsistency seems mad to me. |