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by holler 2244 days ago
If the flower shop goes out of business, 3-5 ppl lose their jobs. If Costco goes out of business, 250,000 people lose their jobs...
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What numbers are these lol? Why compare a single flower shop to all Costco locations including office workers?

There's thousands of flower shops and thousands upon thousands of other shops like flower-shops that have low amounts of foot traffic that make social distancing easy while supporting people's livelihoods.

It was a half-assed comment that maybe the Government see's saving Costco as more important than saving the Flower Shop. 95% of what Costco sells is non-essential, yet they are open. There's more at stake. Just a lazy comment though :D