Clothing is non-essential. I saw it all taped off with yellow caution tape with a piece of paper explaining that non-essential items can't be sold. Gift cards taped down too. So I can't buy a Google Play or Uber gift card with cash. I must use a Visa or Mastercard to fund these things.
The Ben & Jerry's ice cream and the Fudgee-O Double Stuf I bought last night is essential though even though this stuff makes you vulnerable to COVID (as well as Type II diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, etc.) if you don't eat it in moderation. 4/20 Munchies are essential. The cheesecake is essential in Doug Ford's Ontario but I didn't get any.
Never once in the past 13 months have I seen a PSA from Dr. Theresa Tam, Dr. David Williams, Dr. Eileen de Villa, Dr. Lawrence Loh, Doug Ford, etc. that obesity increases your risk of COVID hospitalization or even death substantially. And that people should lower their caloric intake, exercise (they close the gyms and they tried to close the parks and playgrounds), get Vitamin D, sunshine, etc. to reduce their COVID risk. Instead people have been expected to avoid other people for the past 13 months to stop the spread of COVID-19.
So if you consume too many essential cheesecakes and blow out the seam in your pants, replacement of them is deemed non essential.
Yeah you can only buy the replacement pants online from walmart.ca, amazon.ca, etc. lmao. With a Visa or Mastercard. So that the government has an electronic paper trail of your money and transactions. Even if you buy a reloadable prepaid that you can reload with Cash like Stack Mastercard, they KYC you when you create the account. And they can shut off your account if you load your account with a suspicious amount of cash (and if you try to break up the transactions into multiple $500 cash loads, the same will happen).
I bet Doug Ford likes multiple loads all over his face.