San Francisco (!) has reversed its plastic-bag ban, and instead (finally) banned reusable bags.
Hopefully this won’t be temporary; it was always stupid.
[Update a few minutes later]
Katherine was prescient (as was I).
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We’ve had the same here. A month ago all the big grocery stores were virtue-signalling and stopped giving out plastic bags, now they’re banning reusable ones.
Well you can still ask for paper where I shop. Nothing wrong with paper bags as far as I can tell. A good check out clerk will know to double bag the canned goods.
I was given stuff in a paper bag last week. By the time I got home, the bottom was starting to fall apart because it got wet along the way (probably had some melting snow in the car).
Frozen does present some issues. Sometimes they’ll ask you if its okay to wrap in plastic.
Everything not compulsory is still forbidden.
Regardless of the law, stores are now unwilling to use them.
PREAMBLE: We, the People of the State of California,
grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure and perpetuate its blessings, do establish that everything not compulsory is forbidden by this Constitution.First it was paper bags.
Then it was plastic bags.
Now it is reusable bags.
I’m waiting for someone in California to be honest enough to stand up and tell us the truth. “Its not about bags, its about groceries. We don’t want you buying groceries and taking them home. Because the best thing you all can do for the environment is to die…”
San Francisco could have stop it’s foolishness, but what it’s effect globally of their stupid propaganda.
Meanwhile in other news:
“Rotting corpses litter Ecuador streets as coronavirus spreads
“Municipal officials said that in the past few days, 400 bodies have been recovered in the city of 2.8 million people at the epicenter of the outbreak in the South American country, according to the Los Angeles Times.
But chilling images of strewn bodies and coffins waiting to be collected suggest the official toll of 93 deaths from COVID-19 in the country — 60 of them in Guayaquil — is likely far too low”
https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/rotting-corpses-litter-ecuador-streets-as-coronavirus-spreads/
Got story from instapudit, but Glenn linked to new york times.
Oh, been thinking for few days now, that Brazil could be hit very hard.
I had thought that warm weather might slow it down, I still think it does to some degree.
But I think a stronger reason why warm places like Africa and India have less is because they have problems with malaria, and commonly take malaria drugs {or Trump pills- which is thought prevent a person getting china’s virus, though some people think it should called CCP virus {Communist Party of China}}.
But earlier today I “discovered”/remembered that countries like Ecuador have large populations living at high elevation {or cool temperatures}. And like Brazil, these combined countries have large population. Or we have “a Europe” in South America, probably in couple weeks.
Imagine an outbreak in a favela. “Hey folks, please practice social distancing and regular hand disinfecting.”
“Sure, we’ll get right on that.”
But if we keep using single use plastics, thousands may die in 30 years…
It’s 12 years. You know, the Climate Crisis. We have 12 years. Maybe 13 if the virus-related shutdowns go for a year.
So the left has made Trump the scapegoat for the pandemic, the right has made Fauci the scapegoat for the lockdown, and I want to go live on Terminus with the other rational people.