Why are non-essential businesses still allowed to operate?

[bugatti]

Utility divisions.

[Beechwoodfan]

What is essential vs non essential is such a great question.

 

My husband works for a company that manufactures and sells wheels and casters for a variety of companies, but his biggest client makes hospital beds and stretchers. On the surface, it seems non essential. However, they have been crazy busy in the last couple of weeks because of a new demand for beds and stretchers. That makes it seem more essential. They are probably a dozen other factories that this company relies on the make those beds and stretchers.

 

No doubt every essential company relies on other seemingly non essential to provide their product.

 

As MBWC said, it’s mind blowing.

[rjs4470]

What is essential vs non essential is such a great question.

 

My husband works for a company that manufactures and sells wheels and casters for a variety of companies, but his biggest client makes hospital beds and stretchers. On the surface, it seems non essential. However, they have been crazy busy in the last couple of weeks because of a new demand for beds and stretchers. That makes it seem more essential. They are probably a dozen other factories that this company relies on the make those beds and stretchers.

 

No doubt every essential company relies on other seemingly non essential to provide their product.

 

As MBWC said, it’s mind blowing.

 

The economy plus many industries are so interconnected in lots of ways, some of which aren't readily apparent. Not to mention our work is a big definer of who we are. If things really weren't really essential, then why do some these industries exist? On some level, we need all of these things.

[PurplePride92]

If things really weren't really essential, then why do some these industries exist?

 

Because they are profitable and make families generationally wealthy off the backs of replaceable workers. Human beings aren’t essential. Money is.

[MBWC41]

What is essential vs non essential is such a great question.

 

My husband works for a company that manufactures and sells wheels and casters for a variety of companies, but his biggest client makes hospital beds and stretchers. On the surface, it seems non essential. However, they have been crazy busy in the last couple of weeks because of a new demand for beds and stretchers. That makes it seem more essential. They are probably a dozen other factories that this company relies on the make those beds and stretchers.

 

No doubt every essential company relies on other seemingly non essential to provide their product.

 

As MBWC said, it’s mind blowing.

 

Exactly....

 

The idea of manufacturing something 100% in house is essentially impossible.

 

The caster your husband makes likely took outside resources from dozens of other manufacturers, who also use outside resources from many other manufacturing companies.

 

If someone were to do a very detailed report of how many companies and chemicals were involved in making one caster ( or basically anything else we own ) , it would shock most people.

 

The effort it takes to produce anything that doesn’t grow straight from the ground is honestly hard to imagine.

[PurplePride92]

Exactly....

 

The idea of manufacturing something 100% in house is essentially impossible.

 

The caster your husband makes likely took outside resources from dozens of other manufacturers, who also use outside resources from many other manufacturing companies.

 

If someone were to do a very detailed report of how many companies and chemicals were involved in making one caster ( or basically anything else we own ) , it would shock most people.

 

The effort it takes to produce anything that doesn’t grow straight from the ground is honestly hard to imagine.

 

All facts. The glass making process is insane. We get goods from all over delivered to the plant by ships, planes, trucks and trains.

[Voice of Reason]

Large numbers of people in close (within 6 feet) contact. Four guys on a landscaping job are not a problem. One thousand people in a manufacturing plant where large amounts of workers are not close to each other is not a shutdown target. Twenty people in a restaurant with 2 servers and tables turning every hour is a problem.

 

I am sticking by my definition above. Limit close social interactions and large group gatherings. Manufacturing and almost all other work should go on.