Democrats see their plastic-bag-free world
crumble before coronavirus
American Thinker,
by
Andrea Widburg
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
3/31/2020 2:42:48 PM
When I grew up, and for most of my life after that, at a grocery store, the clerk would ring up my groceries and put them in a useful paper or plastic bag emblazoned with the store’s motto. I’d take the bag home and use it again. If it was paper, I used it for book covers, storing annual tax-relevant documents, wrapping packages destined for UPS, and holding recycling. If it was plastic, I used it for bathroom garbage bags, packing school lunches, padding breakables for shipping, etc.
All that changed when California decided to "ban the bag." The reason given was that paper and plastic bags destroyed the environment.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Penney 3/31/2020 2:57:52 PM (No. 364175)
Plastic bags are sanitary and have multiple reuses. Glad our stores still use them, along with paper bags. Both degrade over time.When used & disposed of properly, they are a big help!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NYbob 3/31/2020 3:07:53 PM (No. 364178)
This was forced down the throat of Wegmans who demonstrated to any cement head NY politician that banning plastic was WORSE for the environment in many ways. Instead the dreamy Andrew Cuomo decreed it done and all the corrupt NY 'lawmakers,' went along with. Just one of thousands of ways Cuomo is a criminal.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MuncsSister 3/31/2020 3:20:53 PM (No. 364187)
We’ve lost the right to assemble and go to church, but at least we’ve won the plastic bag debate! Thank goodness for that consolation prize. /s
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 3/31/2020 3:24:51 PM (No. 364194)
Again, liberals couldn't come up with a good idea if their life depended on it.
They are brainless and do not possess the ability to look ahead to the consequences of their actions or choices. The do not belong in positions of power and they certainly not be allowed to participate in anything that will affect the lives of Americans. That should include voting.
Allow them into positions of power at your peril.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 3/31/2020 3:36:58 PM (No. 364200)
This is the only way a Leftist can be made to change their closed mind-by making it a matter or life or death. Theirs, to be specific. The Left absolutely lacks empathy with those they seek to rule over, because they just know better.. It's like the old joke, Q: What is the definition of a conservative? A: A liberal that's been mugged.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
starboard 3/31/2020 3:43:01 PM (No. 364208)
We now have a Democrat governor in New mexico and since January have also had the ban on plastic bags forced down our throats, but only in the Bernalillo County of Albuquerque. Other counties in the state have been spared this nuisance. Grocery stores rather than losing customers, are supplying paper bags to forgetful people like myself. Yes indeed, this is where Democrat's head is at these days...inside a bag.
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I have a suggestion for the lefties who hate plastic bags
Put one over your damn heads!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chance_232 3/31/2020 4:27:40 PM (No. 364235)
"Coronavirus is causing leftist shibboleths to collapse as easily as those ten cent paper bags. Densely populated cities, public transportation, reusable bags – all of them are proving to be harbingers of disease and death."
I disagree....... While people with two functional brain cells can figure that out, Liberals on the other hand never, ever let go of a belief. They will just pass more laws regulating the use of re-usable bags. And they will never let go of public mass transportation. Instead they will require advanced air scrubbers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
padiva 3/31/2020 4:35:12 PM (No. 364244)
I shop at Aldi. You either bring your bags or buy the paper or thick plastic bags.
I'm frugal. I bring my own larger bags but I don't buy meat there.
I fill the bags as I walk thru the store and empty the bag at the checkout. I don't want to touch a shopping cart these days.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 3/31/2020 4:39:04 PM (No. 364246)
i want to see what the commies and their MSM lapdogs in Minnetaxes are gonna
do with their new half completed 3 BILLION DOLLAR fifteen mile Light Rail System..
they have already stopped running their current one (good for BLMers only)
from the Mall of Amerika..
i would imagine these nicely enclosed cars would be the PERFECT breeding
ground for corona virus or any other one in the future..
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 3/31/2020 4:53:26 PM (No. 364258)
The exterior of the reusable bags are probably disease spreading too. The bags are set on floors, in car trunks, and a variety of surfaces in stores. Then people set them on their kitchen counter when unloading the groceries, and tossed aside until next time.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Avikingman 3/31/2020 4:57:25 PM (No. 364262)
Still use plastic bags when I can. Hate renewable bacteria bags.
Wash renewables with my laundry? Not a chance.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
clipped wings 3/31/2020 5:54:02 PM (No. 364314)
It may be a good idea to take your groceries out of the plastic bag, clean them. And store everything in your own bags. Dispose of the plastic bags and wash your hands.
I really wish that the baggers would use nitrile gloves and change gloves (I'd be happy to pay for a pair) between clients. I really don't like taking a chance that the customer ahead of me, touching their purchases, might leave bad varmints to contaminate my bags.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/31/2020 6:13:46 PM (No. 364336)
Right before the pandemic started, the lefty mayor of Charleston, SC banned single use plastic grocery bags. Great timing, there Tecklenburg.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 3/31/2020 6:18:04 PM (No. 364341)
Oregon banned single use plastic bags, and since I occasionally shop there, I have the reusable ones in my car. In Idaho, plastic bags are still okay. However, I don't like to see plastic bags flying around the landfill, so I save them and deposit them in the recycle bin at my local grocery store. Not a hard thing to do at all.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/31/2020 6:18:57 PM (No. 364342)
The lefty LA Times Food Section did a feature a couple of years ago, comparing various reusable bags. None came out too well, and every single one had been manufactured in China.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/31/2020 6:25:44 PM (No. 364347)
I saved them for months when I knew what was coming in CA. Have boxes of them. But you can still buy the old time supermarket bags if you don’t mind spending about $20 for a box of 1000 - usually delivered. Amazon has but charges more.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 3/31/2020 6:35:24 PM (No. 364354)
It costs a dime for a paper bag. I can get 200 bags for what it costs to buy and sanitize your own bag over the same period of time. All this is, is a tax. And, it is a silly regulation and government interference in our lives. If you want to reuse a bag...fine that's you option. i just reuse paper bags for garbage and other uses and they just get back in trash and disintegrate back to the earth.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 3/31/2020 10:03:37 PM (No. 364494)
That’s the thing #16. Hell, live your life. Just be reasonably careful. My wise uncle used to “If the owl doesn’t get you the chicken hawk will”. Be careful and ignore what 90% of the media are screaming from the rooftops. They are despicable people and trying to save their dying businesses
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 3/31/2020 11:13:29 PM (No. 364534)
Lefties aren't brainless, they just rarely use them, relying much more on feelings and emotions. I think this is also one of the reasons they so often express irrational anger, drifting into hatred. Hatred is often vented in violence.
This stuff going on is so very unhealthy for our country. Toss in the bags. ( I sure am glad no-one has tried to take our bags, we've got a good Republican Governor Sununu here in NH. MA, my birthplace, is an awful mess.)
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/1/2020 2:01:32 AM (No. 364598)
But, but, it was for our own good. The ecoterrorists needed to save the trees until it was okay to chop forests up for biofuel for their faux greenie BS so people like Saint Gorebot could become millionaires.
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When this recycled bag stuff started years back and saved the grocery store thousands, I said "I refuse to put the plastic bag guy out of business" I reuse them for garbage and used kitty litter. Where do they put used litter and dog poop in CA and other states?
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Lately I've been spraying the inside of my reusable bags with Lysol and letting them dry before putting them away. And I NEVER let meat be packed in them without a plastic bag covering the meat.