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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The purpose of the stay at home order was to prevent hospitals from becoming overwhelmed.  The county's hospitals are not overwhelmed and someone can set up a number (I'm making this up because I don't know the right number), let's say when ALL hospitals hit 80% capacity we lock down until it's below 50%.  Other than that, allow 50% capacity in shops, stores, restaurants.  People that can work at home must continue to work at home.  Places that care for at risk individuals such as the elderly will be extremely restricted.  All grocery delivery is reserved for at-risk individuals.  The stay at home order is a treating everything like a nail because all you have is a hammer.[/quote]

Totally agree.

It’s also asinine at this point because MoCo actually *did* adopt the pre-Phase 1 permitted activities. So we have a stay at home order, except if you want to play tennis with someone or baseball or participate in an outdoor fitness class.

You can go to Lowe’s or Target and get things, but god forbid your local shop that sells the same stuff opens up!

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That's strange, I live in MoCo and our local hardware stores are open with low contact pick up. As well as stores that sell food plus gift items, also with low contact pick up. As well as my favorite bird / nature store, also with low contact pick up (Backyard Naturalist in Olney is awesome!) [/quote]

Yep. American Plant is also open for pick-up. Snider's is open. MOM is open. Strosnider's is open. Colonial Opticians is open.[/quote]

Yes, but what about the following: You can buy toys, records, and CDs at Target. But your local toy store or record/CD shop isn’t allowed to open. I understand Target also sells essential items, but I’m not convinced you are at SO much higher risk spending 15 minutes in a record shop that’s allowed to open at limited capacity than you are spending longer than that in a Target getting all sorts of things.

We are going to see a lot of small retail businesses just shutter forever because these policies favor big box stores that sell a range of items over more specialized, smaller stores. [/quote]

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