01-13-2021, 12:30 PM
(01-13-2021, 11:23 AM)jeffster Wrote:(01-12-2021, 04:04 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Also there is nothing wrong with going for a walk or a run. Just don’t form a crowd. Requiring short hours for retail likewise makes no sense — what is needed is to encourage long hours. In the extreme, imagine every store was open 7/24 (very expensive, of course, but just hypothetically): you could go shopping at 03:00 and have the store to yourself. One can’t reduce crowding by reducing the size in time and space of the volume in which the crowd exists.
Right. It makes no sense to reduce hours. We need extended hours, rather. Especially true of grocery stores.
Pharmacies and grocers (as well as a few other things) will be able to remain open past 8, it's just non-essential stores that will have to close earlier, so there shouldn't be too much issue with congestion in buildings. Provided this information sufficiently gets spread into the public, most people won't have to change their shopping habits as the only things closing earlier will be non-essential stores. With the lockdown, businesses can only let in so many people at once (or offer pickup) anyway so it shouldn't cause any more congestion than what has already occurred.
You can find the details of what the restrictions are here: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/59922...save-lives