Greening Our Way to Infection. The ban on single-use plastic grocery bags is unsanitary—and it comes at the worst imaginable time.

City Journal ^ | March 12, 2020 | John Tierney

[HighSierra5]

With the economy taking a dump they’ll charge a dollar for plastic bags instead of fifteen cents.

[1_Rain_Drop]

Bring back the bags!!!!!!!!!!

[1_Rain_Drop]

They’re not allowed to give out plastic bags. Only paper bags. We now call then “nickel bags” because they cost a nickel... yet some stores in NYC charge 90 cents for them.

[DLfromthedesert]

I use the bags for garbage.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

https://mobile.twitter.com/HOT97/status/1237346021895790593

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

So do we.

[cherry]

this is an opening...maybe we can blame the ban on plastic bags for the spread of the coronavirus!

[Fledermaus]

Same crazy libs that forced us to use plastic bags to “save the trees”.

Then they bitch about plastic.

[Mercat]

The other “green” thing are those annoying faucets that only work for a short time and never get you warm water. And the hot air blowers.

[matt04]

Yes, the “green” faucets that provide a trickle of water because the GPM is so low it never has the chance to draw any hot water thru the pipes.

[ConservativeInPA]

I use the plastic bags to suffocate cute fuzzy animals.</sarc>

[kaehurowing]

Bing bing bing! Somebody who’s willing to say that banning plastic bags can cause all sorts of health problems.

[kaehurowing]

I use the plastic bags to suffocate cute fuzzy animals.</sarc>

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I go down to the beach and feed them to the sea turtles.

[ConservativeInPA]

I go down to the beach and feed them to the sea turtles.

Sounds like we would get along. Do you ever go clubbing ... baby seals, that is? I'm also a member of PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals.

[going hot]

indoor plumbing with a flush toilet, dishwashers, toilet paper, disposables from utensils to paper plates and bags have done an enormous job of reducing communicable disease.

So, naturally the left wants to fix what works and is not broken.

[Reeses]

Next the green-eyed tyrants will ban single use medical plastics. Equal outcomes means everyone gets HIV.

[kaehurowing]

I’ve been in trouble ever since the Seventies, when I put that bumper sticker on my car that said “NUKE A GAY WHALE FOR THE SHAH.”

[yesthatjallen]

When I hear about 'well meaning' people and unintended consequences I think of the Golgafrinchan.

The Golgafrinchan decided to rid their plant of useless middle men including telephone sanitizers and they sent them into space on the B Ark.

The Golgafrinchan were then wiped by a virulent disease contracted from dirty telephones.

[technically right]

empty beer cans