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Our New Location is Almost Ready to Open - Just Waiting on Ford
- Thread starter SelectRyan
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Life must go on until it doesn't. Countries that had full lock downs (let's face it, ours is far from that) needed to resort to that after it really hit the fan after so many deaths. Everyone is hurting and it's on a global level. The government doesn't have much to gain by telling us to stay home. I'm a small business owner who's company has recently gone under because of COVID19. But I'm happy to be alive and breathing. If more people took this cause more seriously this won't last very long for us. No one can force you to stay home right now but the trickle effect of more people getting sick, ties up hospital resources and you know the rest.
SelectRyan
Business Member Rep
Working on it.
The reality is that Ford isn't making the decision to open businesses unilaterally based on emotion or pressure from his MP's and constituents. He is following the best scientific and medical data and advice from experts in the field. When things open depends on the continued decline in statistical cases, which is dependent on the actions of the population. Short story, if we f%$k it up now, a resurgence will result in heavier quarantine restrictions over a longer period of time. It would be one step forward, 3 steps back. I can't wait to go inside the new store, and see the new range, maybe even join. As a 56 year old male with asthma, it will be a hell of alot better than sitting here going stir crazy.
In that same vein, and I certainly stand to be corrected, Target Sports Canada is still remaining open for retail sales, as per their post of March 24th. https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...856-Target-Sports-Canada-update-24-March-2020 . Could Select not follow this precedent for the time being?
In that same vein, and I certainly stand to be corrected, Target Sports Canada is still remaining open for retail sales, as per their post of March 24th. https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...856-Target-Sports-Canada-update-24-March-2020 . Could Select not follow this precedent for the time being?
You should not waste anymore your time on the goof
nowarningshot
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Exactly true. If the store is open, noone is forced to go there. Stores doing the best in this sector, are the stores that already had good online sales. If someone wants something, and is local, contact them and pay. Arrange for no contact pickup. Everything that comes in these days, i spray with a spray bottle of 30% bleach, even vegetables are washed in soap and water.
A business can be open, staff can be protected, customers dealt with under restrictions.
Government control, and the people who advocate for it, don't give up that power easily. Heard the UN estimates 135 million will starve if the world doesn't open up again. Meanwhile, leftists rejoice at how little carbon is being produced. Sick ideology.
trimeal1
CGN Regular
- Location
- Republic of Western Canada
I am 0% surprised you are deluded enough to think you live in a sci-fi world where the cyber-crime future cops are going to warp into your home to inject you with a government mind-control tracking chip.
See, if you can make things up, I can too. A wild ride we have taken from you not caring about 200,000 other people dying to you being some robin hood hero of the free people. Tell me, what ACTUAL evidence in this conversation has led you to think I would be for or against forcible vaccination. Or do your feelings about me supersede the facts and instead you would rather make up stories so that I can be comic book level bad guy? What evidence do you have that something like this WOULD or COULD even occur? Is there any basis to your beliefs that the horsecops are going to be doing this? Or that the government will?
Lets make a promise to each other and everyone else. If in 1 year, anything even REMOTELY close to the RCMP going door to door, forceably injecting Canadian citizens with a vaccine that has by-passed 99% of human testing, I will admit publicly that I am a "sheep" and that I am too stupid to make public opinions about any topic, Hell, I'll get it tattoo'd on my face. If you are wrong, you have to admit that you have the brain power of a literal child and live in a fantasy world where a Bill Gates (substitute for whoever YouTube has told you it is) is the anti-christ and admit that you shouldn't of stopped reading books in 3rd grade.
But you won't because the difference between us, I think is that I am willing to change my opinion, I will flip on a dime and admit mid-conversation when presented with a better argument for any topic, regardless of how staunchly I held my belief in the moments leading up to it. Because intelligence is the ability to learn new things, admit when you were wrong and make new choices based on tangible and convincing evidence. Not whatever - hold your breath - and - stomp your feet- until the bad man goes away thing you seem to do is. I am wrong constantly, and that's a-o-k with me and I am fine saying and demonstrating it publicly, that's the difference.
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I get what you are saying but can you explain why booze or weed or DQ Blizzards are more essential than the stuff Select Shooting Supplies sells? Hell weed wasn’t even a legal business a year ago and now it’s deemed essential? I guess if the government sold gun parts THEN they would be considered essential and you’d be ok with that.
Take a trip to Costco or Walmart or any of the other places you mention that is allowed to keep their doors open and have a good hard look at what people are buying. Then come back here and tell us about how all that was being purchased was everyday necessities.
And you did read the part where they said they are not asking for the floodgates to be opened and that they are willing to go above and beyond what the currently open stores are doing to keep people safe right? Does that really sound like “bold faced greed and ignorance” to you?
DQ is on the list cause it's food. You want gov't to get into the weeds trying to define allowable food?
Weed is no longer on the list.
And alcohol is on the list cause if it wasn't the number of ppl going to the ER with alcohol addicion withdrawal issues would make the Covid crisis look like peanuts. Sad, but true.
And my business works with WalMart, Canadian Tire, and Giant Tiger, all of whom remain open. We're in conversation with their buyers, so I can tell you in general terms what they're selling a lot of.
The first couple weeks was almost exclusively food, drug, and sanitation/hygene. All other areas, including apparel, were a dead zone. After the initial panic, thing like home improvement, garden centres, and personal hygene (trimmers, hair dye), picked up.
So in general... I'd say yes, most things being sold are essential. There's grey areas around the Home Depot and gardening stuff, but that's ppl keeping themselves sane at home, and getting some time away from the wife and kids.
You're actually incorrect. A democracy means the people elect others to represent them and their interests. It does NOT mean everyone can do whatever they want. It's actually exactly what you said it isn't -- it's people deciding what you can and cannot do. For instance, in no democracy is someone allowed to yell fire in a crowded theatre. That is not an infringement on their liberty, that is common sense, and our elected officials have made laws making this explicit.
We elect people to make decisions on our behalf. In this instance you do not agree with their decisions. That does not at all however make the process in any way undemocratic. It *may* infringe on your liberty as you see it, but that is separate from whether it's democratic or not, and to what degree you value liberty vs. democracy. They're not in any way the same thing. I've already defined democracy, and liberty is basically the ability to make money free of government regulation.
All western democracies balance these two things, with places like Sweden leaning harder on democracy, and places like the US leaning harder on liberty. Sweden is highly democratic but with many restrictions on people's individual liberties, whereas the US has very few restrictions on personal liberties, but in truth is not a very democratic place.
Just depends on your value system. But please don't say that the man is trampling your rights, dictatorship, yada yada, as that's not true.
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It has nothing to do with how much someone is paid and everything to do with how the government has decided what is essential and what isn’t! Maybe they should temporarily change their name to Select Shooting Supplies & Sandwiches! Hahaha. Dean has probably already thought of that
For what it's worth anyone notice that Rangeview Sports is still open? I mean I haven't physically checked myself, but their site says they're still open. Am I missing something or have they somehow defined themselves as essential?
Here --
https://www.rangeviewsports.ca/
It's one of the sliding promo banners on the top of their site.
This is true for everyone. If this drags on into the back to school/holiday shopping season, the world economy will collapse, and there will be civil unrest and starvation wherever you want to look. Give this situation another 3-4 months and see what happens...
The honest conversation we need to have, which no-one is yet really having, is what is the value of life vs economy, and at what point does loss of life from economic damage overcome loss of life from Coronavirus? That conversation is coming, but no-one is really being honest about it. We have Trump on the economy side, pushing that viewpoint, but not honestly saying that American lives will need to be sacrificed for the greater good, then on the other side we have doctors and many gov't people saying all life is sacred. No-one tho is being honest about the actual situation yet. I'm hopeful we can start discussing this more honestly soon, so we can really figure out the best way forward.
As you said tho, we don't have much time. A month or two past the gov't backstopping wages is going to be a real problem...and as of now they're only backstopping them till ~June 15.
Runningfool
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- SW Ontario
DQ is on the list cause it's food. You want gov't to get into the weeds trying to define allowable food?
Weed is no longer on the list.
And alcohol is on the list cause if it wasn't the number of ppl going to the ER with alcohol addicion withdrawal issues would make the Covid crisis look like peanuts. Sad, but true.
And my business works with WalMart, Canadian Tire, and Giant Tiger, all of whom remain open. We're in conversation with their buyers, so I can tell you in general terms what they're selling a lot of.
The first couple weeks was almost exclusively food, drug, and sanitation/hygene. All other areas, including apparel, were a dead zone. After the initial panic, thing like home improvement, garden centres, and personal hygene (trimmers, hair dye), picked up.
So in general... I'd say yes, most things being sold are essential. There's grey areas around the Home Depot and gardening stuff, but that's ppl keeping themselves sane at home, and getting some time away from the wife and kids.
Hey thanks for joining this forum 2 days ago and telling us all about the virus and businesses! Lots of great info!
I especially like this: “ So in general... I'd say yes, most things being sold are essential.” That doesn’t sound at all like bullish!t!
I also really enjoy: “There's grey areas around the Home Depot and gardening stuff, but that's ppl keeping themselves sane at home, and getting some time away from the wife and kids.”! That doesn’t sound at all like the kind of stuff Select Shooting Supplies sells!
I'm not getting why some ppl here are so aggressive. Does it make you feel more like a man?
Really a bit odd...
You're insane
Runningfool
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- SW Ontario
That’s not aggression it’s sarcasm. And it’s not done to make me feel more like a man, it’s done to illustrate the folly in your post.
And I thought mocking and calling bull#### were aggressive in nature.
Silly me.
I look forward to your next well thought out rebuttal.
