Safety is certainly important. It makes many of us wonder how we survived to adulthood before 2020 when safety become so important that the survival of the human race was seen to be at stake. Good Samaritans began calling 911 to report extra cars in driveways of neighbors, supermarket vigilantes patrol the aisles accosting shoppers for not properly wearing masks, schools are shuttered, private businesses are locked down. Safety today is not just important, it is all-important.
Safety is one of those things in life that exists for the good of the people. The people are not equipped with the intelligence or the will power to function safely, so this is where government comes forward. The government has power. It can use that power to act in best interest of the people. If the government decides that churches must be closed but liquor stores stay open, it is for the good of the people. Liquor stores collect taxes to make the government more powerful while churches pay no taxes.
It is like an IQ test question: If all liquor stores (A) collect taxes and taxes are good for the government, but most churches (B) are good for the people but collect no taxes, then one is better for the state which is good for the people while the other is good for the people but less good for the state. Which one will remain open, (A) or (B)? The answer of course, is (A). You see? It is logic.
People in government are very good at logic. That is why they are in government and the rest of us are not. If giant corporate restaurants like Applebee’s and fast-food chains like MacDonald’s pay huge amounts of taxation to state federal and governments and have lobbyists in Washington, they are much safer than private restaurants operated by citizens that live locally in communities. It is simple logic. It is the same with Walmart and Home Depot.
If you cannot find paper towels but have to run an obstacle course around beer displays piled in the middle of shopping aisles, this is for your safety. And do not worry, the government is not going to slack off when your safety is on the line. It will not be long before the police will be knocking on your doors to ensure private compliance.
Go bless safety and God bless the government!
The liquor store vs church comparison is not very good.
Most churches have 100+ people all sitting in close proximity. I don't think I have ever seen 10 people in a liquor store at one time.
People sit in church for an hour. People are in liquor stores for 5 or 10 minutes.
I have seen people in a liquor store pick up a bottle, look at the price, look at the alcohol content and then put it back on the shelf. Being in the front of the stocked bottles, someone else will pick that bottle up as well.
Likewise, I have seen people squeeze the melons, squeeze the peaches and decide they are not ripe enough and put them back. Produce is stocked in a way where the first one touched is likely the first one someone else touches.
I was at Coctco last weekend and watched a stock clerk pull his mask down and rub his nose...put it back on and continue stocking the merchandise.
There is no safer place than in a house of worship where people are not touching items other people touched 5 minutes before.