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

[ConservativeInPA]

That’s too much. ROFL

[The Westerner]

Thank you, John Tiernay, for telling it like it is! Bring back those thin, pliable bags we all came to depend on! Let’s return to pre-Rachel Carson era.

[yesthatjallen]

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

I attended medical lectures from people who worked in Africa. Often times they include slide presentations.

Because of the shortage of medical supplies, they wash and then hang rubber gloves on clothes lines to dry.

They reuse them until they're unusable.

One wonders where all the aid money goes...

[davius]

I’ve never seen a single use plastic bag. Mine all serve duty for 5 or 6 rounds. Trash, separating foods in the freezer, keeping old equipment with its specialized adapters, holding meds when I travel, ferrying food from the pantry, and endlessly in the garden and yard.

[mv2]

I use mine to clean up kitty litter boxes and the husband uses them to clean up when walking the dogs. A very noble end for a plastic grocery bag.

[oldvirginian]

“One wonders where all the aid money goes...”

Into the bank accounts of government officials of course.
How else can Presidents and Prime Ministers of crap hole countries live like European royalty?

[S.O.S121.500]

BOOKbump

[trebb]

Wife was using reusable bags for a while - once she discovered they really needed to be washed after every use, she started using them to store things in the back of her SUV for easy access - cleaning supplies, rags, etc.

[mewzilla]

Not every county in NYS went along with the bag tax. Some merchants in those counties are still charging, and blaming state and local government. One Upstate county legislature has had it...

Chemung County Legislators pass resolution opposing paper bag fee

[Sacajaweau]

Time for Cuomo to use his brain about the bags. The CDC should nail his a** on this one.

[Whatever Works]

I mention this every time the subject comes up. To late. People have been propagandized another fad lie. Maybe this will wake them up. Doubtful....

[bert]

If you are unfortunate enough to live in a place that bans plastic grocery bags, you can no longer call yourself American. You no longer live in America