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These businesses have suffered in the name of public safety. They have done everything that has been asked of them, and they have paid the price. Perhaps most insulting of all is that health officials say now the pandemic protocols they imposed on businesses, the same protocols that likely hastened so many closures, are not even all that efficacious.
Businesses were ordered to cut their capacities drastically to honor the 6-feet social distancing rule. Now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 3 feet is an acceptable distance for at least schoolchildren to maintain.
Businesses were advised to disinfect everything in their stores thoroughly to help contain the spread of the disease. Now, the CDC has relaxed its rules, claiming intense disinfectants are possibly doing more harm than good.
This is also to say nothing of healthcare officials saying first that masks were not necessary and then demanding later that businesses police their clientele to enforce compliance with mask mandates. This is to say nothing of the “nonessential” businesses that were temporarily shuttered altogether during strict lockdown periods.
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