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Home Front: Politix
San Francisco Bans Reusable Grocery Bags, Returns to Plastic Bags
2020-04-03
[AMGREATNESS] The notoriously far-left city of the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
has reversed its own ban on plastic bags in response to the spread of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, now prohibiting the use of reusable bags as a sanitary measure, according to Politico.

The push to ban plastic bags, which leftists have claimed, without evidence, are more likely to cause pollution, had been achieved in many liberal cities, from San Francisco to New York. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
with the fear of spreading the contagious coronavirus, the same bags being used multiple times are more likely to help spread the disease than single-use plastic bags.

The move is the latest action taken by San Francisco and the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, state government to combat the virus. The city of San Francisco issued a county-wide stay-at-home order in mid-March, with Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) soon following suit with a statewide order. It is believed that these and other drastic "social distancing" measures have helped to halt the spread of the virus in the nation’s most populous state, which is not nearly as impacted by the disease as other heavily-populated states like New York and Washington state.
Posted by:Fred

#14  ... is hard...
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2020-04-03 23:55  

#13  Bamboos has high silica content, as such it'd jsrd on the machines that pulp and make paper.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2020-04-03 23:54  

#12  Next thing you know they will ask the public to go back to using toilets instead of sidewalks.
Posted by: Airandee   2020-04-03 19:08  

#11  The real question is do they return after the virus has faded...

bamboo grows like a freaking weed. We should be making bags out of Bamboo and then feeding it to Pandas when we're done.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-04-03 16:56  

#10  Re #1: maybe, but very slow learners. UCSF showed in a study a few months after the ban was enacted (many years ago) that sick leave among garbage collectors had taken a sharp turn upwards.
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-04-03 14:18  

#9  It's like we're relearning why disposables and plastics were ever used in the first place.

The degree to which all the Gaia-worship is revealed as a luxury product of wealth and security is also being revealed.

Will the critical mass of the populace take the lesson?

Probably not. Yet.
Posted by: charger   2020-04-03 13:49  

#8  Had to something about our 'Huge Deforestation Problem®' Crusader, so paper bags became 'icky'.

/snark
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-04-03 13:45  

#7  And when they return to paper, a renewable resource that actually decays in a landfill, sanity will have once again returned to that portion of the shopping experience. It was beyond stupid that we ever moved away from paper bags to begin with.
Posted by: Crusader   2020-04-03 11:03  

#6  Maybe Pelosi and Schiff will put one of these plastic bags over their heads--of course to protect them from the COVID-19 virus. Duct tape around the neck will insure that it will stay in place.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-04-03 10:45  

#5  Virtue signalling. The grocery chains around here have been banning the reusables for about a month now...on their own...without government mandate (although that'll surely come).
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-04-03 09:49  

#4  We're witnessing a political survival tool. The Amigo conga line has stopped. Their emphasis has now shifted to remaining residents.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-04-03 07:36  

#3  This s**t must be serious for the aholes to finally dump the social virtue theater for actual fundamentals of modern society (and hygiene).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-03 06:55  

#2  Only if the San Fran city council and mayor wear them over their heads.
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-04-03 03:44  

#1  No sh*t? They can learn?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-03 03:26  

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