Posted on 04/02/2020 10:37:36 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
San Francisco is banning reusable shopping bags to prevent outside germs from entering grocery stores as the coronavirus pandemic affects cities around the country,
The new ordinance from the San Francisco Department of Public Health aims to reinforce existing social distancing protocols by restricting customers from bringing their own bags, mugs, or other reusable items to essential stores, according to a statement.
San Francisco was one of the first cities in the U.S. to ban the use of plastic shopping bags in 2007 to reduce the environmental impact caused by plastic waste, according to SFGate.com.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) on Wednesday extended stay-at-home orders for the public, running until May 3.
"I can't reiterate enough how important it is for all of us to continue to comply, for all of us to continue to be good citizens, to cooperate," Breed said.
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Yes. Have you seen some of the filthy, dirty, and disgusting bags people bring into the grocery stores?? *YUCK*
Liberals are some of the dirtiest hippies ever.
Yes. They are not washed. Put on floor. Then dragged to cashier counter.
Stores have to charge for bags by law. Are they suspending that?
They are germ and bacteria petri dishes
Yes dirty bags with handles that are used for months are unhealthy. a single use plastic bag is cleaner.
Do reusable bags spread disease?
Yes they do
That was the debate BEFORE this crap started and leftards laughed at us that we didn’t care about the environment
Ok greentards, how about all of this disposable PPE stuff that is getting dumped in landfills by the ton? All the masks gown gloves face sheilds etc all because we can’t have grocery bags or straws?
Leftards always create more problems then they solve
Gee....living a liberal life sure is fun and healthy. /S
This is freakin hilarious. Another bad virtue-signalling liberal idea that should be gone forever!
I’ve never thought those reusable bags were a good idea. At least not to where the law said you must only use them.
Back to lightweight plastic bags, please.
Maybe someone can make lightweight plastic bags that are biodegradable. That would keep some Sea Turtles from choking.
Idiots get what they vote for.
This is a minor but good thing. Should be done everywhere. So obvious why it took so long I don’t know.
Probably. But, then ANYTHING we touch or get touched by can spread disease.
Our immune system is supposed to take care of all the bad stuff. And, it usually does.
If it doesn't...we die.
Everybody tried to tell them when they banned plastic bags, that the reusable bags were cesspools of germs, but of course, the Green Worshipers wouldn’t listen.
whelp, I suppose all of that ecofriendly crap went poorly.
Food put in the bag could leak germ-laden juices that tend to stay in the bag (people rarely wash them) as well as germs from handling and general dirt.
Then there’s the handling of the bag and the food, and you rarely wash your hands before and after. Now you’ve spread germs from contacting various items to the bag handle ... reinfecting your hands.
Not if they're washed, but nobody does. The new ones made of plastic wipe down pretty well with Lysol, etc; the old cloth ones need to be thrown into the wash. And, of course, it depends on what you put into them. A nice, gooey, leaking raw chicken can put enough salmonella onto the surface to start a path lab; raw fruits and veggies, ditto. Packaged and boxed microwave goodies, not so much, but if somebody handled them in an unsanitary fashion before shelving them, they're still not clean.
Reusable grocery bags can spread foodborne disease
It is important to wash reusable grocery bags regularly to decrease your risk of getting sick.
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/reusable_grocery_bags_can_spread_foodborne_disease
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