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SwissChap

This kind of thing is the best argument against giving the police any extra powers in this crisis:

A day after a police force threatened to snoop through people’s
shopping baskets, officers elsewhere have taken it upon themselves to
decide what count as ‘non-essential aisles’ in supermarkets. Police in
Cambridge tweeted a picture outside Tesco Barhill during their patrols
of supermarkets and green spaces. They said: ‘Good to see everyone was
abiding by social distancing measures and the non essential aisles
were empty’.

And:

Yesterday Nottinghamshire Police Chief Constable, Nick Adderley, came
in for criticism after threatening that his force was ‘a few days
away’ from looking in shopping trolleys to see what people had bought.

I know those are individual people going a bit too far, but still, you give them one reason to be slightly stricter and next thing you hear talk about them checking your shopping trolley? Yikes.

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deleted in reply to @SwissChap

Yeah I guess the argument should be for how many times a week people are shopping, not what they're buying and snooping in trollies.

I mean bread ok, but cake too profligate? People need to stay sane and enjoy their day too, even if just cooking/eating/drinking something nice.

I say that having bought several bottles of single malt and numerous snack delicacies to accompany #burnthewitch

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pascalo in reply to @deleted

What about biscuits? That essential enough? And where does that leave Jaffa cakes?
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SwissChap in reply to @deleted

More and more, I get the impression that some people are misunderstanding the current situation as "make life as miserable as possible for everybody, and if you manage to still have any fun, you're doing something morally wrong".

Yes, I get that the situation sucks for a whole lot of people, be it overworked healthcare workers, people having to go to work with lacking (or no) protection, people who've lost part or all of their income, and of course last but absolutely not least the people actually sick or dying of the damn virus, and their family / friends etc. It certainly is not a happy time for a lot of people.

But no, this does not mean that everybody has to be miserable to show solidarity. If you can have fun in a way that is not a big risk to others - be it baking cakes, going for a solo cycle, or knitting -, that is fine. FFS.

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