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@go-tazz wrote:
@chameleon54 wrote:
@rogevibe wrote:As isolation drags on, "non-essential" items will become more essential for maintaining emotional well being
Business closures in Victoria begin today. The decisions on what are essential and non essential seem reasonable, but one " essential " busines that jumps out from the others is newsagents. Is it that X lotto is an essential service people cant live without ?
The newspapers,magazines,arts,craft items,etc are why they would be staying open so people have something
to do and not all newsagents have a lotto outlet in their shop and lotto can be done online whereas with newspapers,magazines people want the physical item.
I initially thought the same thing, but if that was the reasoning, surely hardware chains such as Bunnings would have a similar justification in staying open.....ie. People could paint their house or put up a set of cupboards during isolation. It would be a lot more constructive than reading a magazine and allow people to feel they had actually achieved something during isolation and the time wasn't completely wasted..
My guess is its about ensuring peoples addictions are met, same as shops selling alcohol are still trading. Alcohol may not be one of life's essentials, but many cant live without it. The Government does not want to inflame rebellion and animosity in the community by taking away things many people in the general population are addicted too.
The virus doesn't discriminate or follow the social rules we have made for ourselves......It is exposing all sorts of grubby little secrets normally hidden or deliberately ignored. I suspect it is also going to expose a lot of other grubby little secrets in our economy before it is finished.
example - did anyone else know that over one million of our jobs where being done by foreign visa holders while our youth where experiencing high rates of unemployment before the virus struck? Sure we knew foreign visa workers where out there, but the extent ?
The Government realises it is a problem, that is why visa holders are not currently receiving any financial support and are being asked to go back to their home countries. Until now they have been used to ensure a pool of unemployed as worker reserves for big business and to depress wages for Australian workers, pushing up corporate profits..
And another------ Did the community realise that immigration was so prevalent, that a third of Melbourne's population do not speak English in their homes and over half of Melbourne's population where not born in Australia ? Again we know we have been supporting very high numbers of immigrants, but the actual extent of the numbers ????
Again, governments know that high immigration numbers suppress wage growth and support increasing consumption as well as endless construction industry jobs and corporate profits ( Victoria's largest industry ) . What they don't tell you is they also reduce the living standards and quality of life for individuals already resident in the country.
