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First of all, employee and consumer protections matter.

Regarding complaints about prohibition of commerce; and is regulation of commerce
not to include *prohibition* of commerce, therefore....

1. Are consumers protected from sale, if they fully know and continue to be warned
by advisement at the store entrance about COVID.
2. May the employees quit and come back at any time before or after COVID is over
with no penalty. And are they fully advised as to this right, and continue to be
warned as to the dangers of working, at the office entrance.
3. Are people in receipt of $2,000-$4,000 per month, so they do not have to work,
and are only working for extra money. Not because they could otherwise die, and
can thereby be exploited?!

4. Even if it was 100% allowed, would you really even have your office, store or
restaurant open given the high risk.

It seems the issue really comes down to employee protections vs. prohibition of commerce. Prohibition of commerce does NOT seem warranted for consumer protections given the easy solution of advisement - that is, product labeling, advertisement, and marketing control. Force advertisement of the restaurant as assisted suicide for example, but this is ludicrous. Yet that is what that would
be. Additionally forcing the restaurant to force consumers to wear masks while inside, to protect both employees and other consumers. Hardeeharharhar I wonder
how they could eat. Okay I guess that's prohibition, but technically not. You're
just saying they have to wear the mask, not that they couldn't eat, okay I guess
that's a deceitful argument. Take-out food answers the issue there anyway. Then
you could eat it on the beach... oooh except ... (our human rights are not respected because of no distinction made between commerce and totalitarian oppression).

Employee and Consumer protections matter!

Regulation of commerce for Consumers, might include:
Consumer Advisement in the form of Product Labeling, Advertisement and Marketing
Control
Quality Control
Product Bundling
Location of Sale?

General principal of Employee labor law is the work not be unnecessarily dangerous, injurious, painful, or unsanitary (poisonous). COVID employment is easily all four. Employing people to commit unnecessary self-harm. Thus only necessary activities, such as fire fighting, are presently allowed.


Consider the following black letter advice:

"The Congress shall have Power To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes." - U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 3

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of
the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances." - U.S. Constitution, 1st Amendment

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