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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by walterbell on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:15PM (#23001300)
Unless there's a state-mandated quota on essential businesses, what's stopping a store from adding some essential goods to their inventory and merchandising? This would reduce the burden on other stores, i.e. increasing social distancing in parking lots and within the story.

Laws exist with the consent of the governed. When laws are instituted under premises (e.g models, intelligence) that are later proved wrong (e.g. data, WMD inspections), consent should not be taken for granted.

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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by the_watcher on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:30PM (#23001451)
> Laws exist with the consent of the governed.

This is goalpost moving. Of course laws exist by the consent of the governed. Your original post claimed that there was no law, and that businesses should consider litigating to the Supreme Court, relying on pro bono lawyers who "remember their Constitution", despite the complete lack of Constitutional support for your argument.

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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by walterbell on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:37PM (#23001518)
No law for house arrest. The "consent of the governed" comment was about state emergency powers.

There's no specific argument to litigate until a specific business opens and gets into a legal dispute with a specific state.

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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by op00to on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:16PM (#23001320)
A number of small businesses in my area are offering groceries even though that is not their core business.
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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by walterbell on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:22PM (#23001372)
If someone could interview them on the operational and regulatory logistics of that change, we could put that on github and build a playbook for other small businesses, sharing strategies across towns & states.
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