Until COVID I thought “Blue Laws” were antiquated but I have changed my opinion, I think the author is correct. BTW-I’m old enough, 68 today, to remember many of these.
Yes, they could be problematic especially if you had an event planned for Sunday and you forgot to stop by the liquor store on Saturday but all in all it was much better then.
Another problem with today’s America, too much legal immigration from disparate countries due to the Fatassed Ted Kennedy changing immigration policies in the 60’s. It worked as designed.
So, you want to condemn Type I diabetics to either death or bankruptcy? Because that’s what you get with that. In your youth Type Is usually didn’t live long, so hey, it must be okay now, right?
Here’s the scenario: 1. Diabetic’s refrigerator dies overnight and the diabetic patient wakes up to an insulin mix vial that is too warm to safely use and has to be tossed out. (The most common types cannot be used if they get anywhere close to room temp.) 2. No appliance stores open, so the fridge can’t be replaced until Monday 3. Even if you go to one of these emergency pharmacies, well, they don’t sell insulin in the single dose. OOoh, and since the family doctor’s not working today, can’t get an emergency prescription for it anyway if the emergency pharmacy isn’t your regular one. But you don’t have a fridge to store the not-cheap insulin in, so it doesn’t really matter. You can’t use a styrofoam ice chest because if the thing freezes you can’t use it. So, 4. I guess the choice now is to go to the hospital and get a gigantic medical bill! Or, you know, go to church and die because no insulin, I suppose. But hey, at least they were forced to go to church, right?
There’s plenty more medications that have to be refrigerated, plenty more situations where straight blue laws would kill people in the modern era. Are you pro-life? Because this is how you kill people, not save them.
In order for blue laws to not be inhumane as tech and life evolved, they had to set out ridiculous carve-outs that eventually made the blue laws ludicrously stupid.