RE: Some strange "essential businesses" as dictated by the government
Kind of opposite of what you're asking, but something I noticed here is pretty much all the Chinese restaurants in my area closed down 2-3 weeks ago and haven't opened back up. My favorite of which pretty much lived off their takeout customer base. Meanwhile literally every other place in the area allows takeout and delivery still. I saw some utter fucking stupidity of people saying to avoid Chinese food so they don't get sick on local social media, which sadly makes me question if people started just not going to them so they had to shut down due to no customers.
If people are being that dumb, I fully expect to see Karen screaming to meet Coronavirus's manager at the supermarket if this lockdown continues.
Also, that fucking sucks they aren't allowing you guys takeout or delivery. They'll probably chance their tune in a few weeks hopefully, as if they didn't allow that here it would really hasten businesses to be crippled and shut down forever.
Yeah there has been some seriously dumb reactions to this globally but the Chinese restaurant one... well, I guess I could see that coming from a mile away. There is a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment over here, which is pretty lame when you consider that the gen-pop of China isn't responsible for the stupid shit their government does any more than you or I are responsible for USA foreign policy.