Anonymous
Post 06/02/2020 22:18     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Me too. All the people who stay home constantly are doing is shifting the risk to someone else, whether it’s someone delivering their groceries or whatever they’re deciding not to go to the store for.

Not my definition of a hero.


I get shifting the risk to instacart shoppers, but not going to the store as much as they used to...how is that shifting the risk to someone else? If lots of us are doing this then that’s less people it the store and less risk to everyone—the workers and the patrons.


+1

A safe arrangement would have been to close grocery stores to customers and have customers place orders online or by phone (not everyone, especially some older customers, is going to do this all online). Then they get a pickup time and a numbered space in the parking lot. They pull into the space at the assigned time, pop the trunk or door, and someone brings out the groceries. Only store staff and people like Instacart shoppers enter the store at all. This would provide temporary jobs (as stores hire people as shoppers, packers, parking lot workers to take things to cars) and it would mean far less exposure for both store staffs/Instacart workers and customers. Home delivery could still happen as well.

It would have been great if even one big chain had done this very early. Others might have followed suit. It would be a model that created jobs and reduced exposure at the same time.

A friend in another state shops just like this. Her local grocery went to this model and it's been popular. It's too bad that the bigger chains didn't try it.


That seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to in order to avoid something that isn't likely to be a major source of transmission. Society's collective resources and energy would be better spent elsewhere.

I've been telling people from the start that this is marathon, not a sprint. You have to find things that are sustainable, because this isn't going away anytime soon.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2020 19:14     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Me too. All the people who stay home constantly are doing is shifting the risk to someone else, whether it’s someone delivering their groceries or whatever they’re deciding not to go to the store for.

Not my definition of a hero.


I get shifting the risk to instacart shoppers, but not going to the store as much as they used to...how is that shifting the risk to someone else? If lots of us are doing this then that’s less people it the store and less risk to everyone—the workers and the patrons.


+1

A safe arrangement would have been to close grocery stores to customers and have customers place orders online or by phone (not everyone, especially some older customers, is going to do this all online). Then they get a pickup time and a numbered space in the parking lot. They pull into the space at the assigned time, pop the trunk or door, and someone brings out the groceries. Only store staff and people like Instacart shoppers enter the store at all. This would provide temporary jobs (as stores hire people as shoppers, packers, parking lot workers to take things to cars) and it would mean far less exposure for both store staffs/Instacart workers and customers. Home delivery could still happen as well.

It would have been great if even one big chain had done this very early. Others might have followed suit. It would be a model that created jobs and reduced exposure at the same time.

A friend in another state shops just like this. Her local grocery went to this model and it's been popular. It's too bad that the bigger chains didn't try it.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2020 19:01     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Me too. All the people who stay home constantly are doing is shifting the risk to someone else, whether it’s someone delivering their groceries or whatever they’re deciding not to go to the store for.

Not my definition of a hero.


Yeah agreed. You aren’t a hero for being privileged enough to pay someone to grocery shop for you...that’s still someone at the store. It’s super classist really.


Np: I’ve been going to the grocery store myself and to those who use Instacart to select your groceries, you’d be far safer getting your own groceries.


Cute how you drop that hint that somehow Instacart shoppers are...what? Spitting on groceries as they pick them out? Put up or shut up; explain yourself. Though I'm inclined not to believe anything you post as follow-up because you were trying too hard to be cryptic and ominous the first time around.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2020 17:31     Subject: I judge people who are judging
NP but we got our groceries delivered before coronavirus and we're getting them delivered now.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2020 17:02     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Me too. All the people who stay home constantly are doing is shifting the risk to someone else, whether it’s someone delivering their groceries or whatever they’re deciding not to go to the store for.

Not my definition of a hero.


I get shifting the risk to instacart shoppers, but not going to the store as much as they used to...how is that shifting the risk to someone else? If lots of us are doing this then that’s less people it the store and less risk to everyone—the workers and the patrons.


Big problem is many of those workers don't have health care, you do.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2020 17:00     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Hm.

I just go with the knowledge that, like everything in life, people are doing the best they can with their circumstances. I may not agree, but it’s not my place to live their life for them. I don’t let it take up real estate in my mind either way... whether they are holing up with barbed wire around their property and 18 pallets of rice and toilet paper, or if they’re out licking the closed playground equipment and having pool parties. I follow the guidelines to my understanding and capability, given my circumstances, and do the best I can to protect my family and loved ones.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2020 16:33     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Anonymous wrote:Me too. All the people who stay home constantly are doing is shifting the risk to someone else, whether it’s someone delivering their groceries or whatever they’re deciding not to go to the store for.

Not my definition of a hero.


So what? Delivery drivers are getting paid. I'm supporting other businesses. Grocery stores are just the middle man.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2020 16:02     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yeah the social distancing police got old fast. My kids call them Karens. Usually they are picking and choosing when to judge too. Like yelling about kids being together, but then you find out they still see their elderly parents.


They sound just darling.


Lol. Lemme guess, you have toddlers and zero sense of humor.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2020 13:10     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Anonymous wrote:Yeah the social distancing police got old fast. My kids call them Karens. Usually they are picking and choosing when to judge too. Like yelling about kids being together, but then you find out they still see their elderly parents.


They sound just darling.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2020 09:47     Subject: Re:I judge people who are judging
The one thing I think is reasonable to judge people on is mask wearing and attempting to keep a respectful distance if possible. I live in an apartment building and have had other residents ignore the request that we wear masks in the elevator. I judge the heck out of them.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2020 08:49     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Anonymous wrote:We all stayed home for months to flatten the curve. We listened and stayed home. We have not socialized with anyone. We get our groceries delivered. No play dates.

I know several people who have become coronavirus vigilantes and I have begun to dislike them.


Than I suppose you dislike yourself? Since you are judging too
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2020 03:24     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Anonymous wrote:Me too. All the people who stay home constantly are doing is shifting the risk to someone else, whether it’s someone delivering their groceries or whatever they’re deciding not to go to the store for.

Not my definition of a hero.


I get shifting the risk to instacart shoppers, but not going to the store as much as they used to...how is that shifting the risk to someone else? If lots of us are doing this then that’s less people it the store and less risk to everyone—the workers and the patrons.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2020 02:15     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Me too. All the people who stay home constantly are doing is shifting the risk to someone else, whether it’s someone delivering their groceries or whatever they’re deciding not to go to the store for.

Not my definition of a hero.


Yeah agreed. You aren’t a hero for being privileged enough to pay someone to grocery shop for you...that’s still someone at the store. It’s super classist really.


Np: I’ve been going to the grocery store myself and to those who use Instacart to select your groceries, you’d be far safer getting your own groceries.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2020 01:02     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Anonymous wrote:Yeah the social distancing police got old fast. My kids call them Karens. Usually they are picking and choosing when to judge too. Like yelling about kids being together, but then you find out they still see their elderly parents.


So, you are ok with your kids being the mean kids and bullies.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2020 00:58     Subject: I judge people who are judging
Anonymous wrote:Me too. All the people who stay home constantly are doing is shifting the risk to someone else, whether it’s someone delivering their groceries or whatever they’re deciding not to go to the store for.

Not my definition of a hero.


Yeah agreed. You aren’t a hero for being privileged enough to pay someone to grocery shop for you...that’s still someone at the store. It’s super classist really.