Forcing grocery stores to remain open. Nice. The stores won’t be able to pay for their produce. The suppliers won’t deliver anymore. Soon it becomes a soviet style no product store. Then the owner can’t pay their employees or other bills. Hell of a ripple effect.
The first amendment right of the people to peaceably assemble (aka the right of free association) allows people to change jobs at will. The pursuit of happiness expects people to improve themselves by gaining experience and advancing in capabilities and better jobs with better pay.
Only centrally-planned economies run by communist governments mandate which jobs certain people will be allowed to have. San Francisco cannot force people to continue to show up for work in a job they no longer want nor feel safe doing.
If they must do so, they can invoke the 13th amendment:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Staff the grocery stores with people convicted of crimes if they want to force businesses to remain open. The criminals can be paid prison wages, which should remove a large operating cost from the businesses.
-PJ
Hard to believe the Nineth Circus Court would even uphold this ridiculous dictate. Let the city Supervisors open their own fricking Grocery Stores, hell make everything free, what could go wrong?
Bump