America has long been the country of corporations, with one of the inevitable outcomes of corporate-friendly tax and regulation policy being the "big box" store replacing numerous smaller mom and poop neighborhood stores
These big box stores were also specifically "protected" by the government . . . the same government that will not pass CV19 stimulus because the GOP-Senate wants immunity for these types of businesses (and others).
well . . .
"The mayor [of El Paso] also mentioned what contact tracers have been finding in regards to how residents are catching the virus.
“We did a deep dive in our contact tracing for the week of November the 10th through the 16th and found that 55% of the positives were coming from shopping at large retailers, what we’d term as the big box stores,” Margo said. “And those are considered essential under CISA guidelines under homeland security. And we don’t really have- I don’t have any control over any limitations there.”
He said the city asked retailers like Walmart for “voluntary limitations” regarding occupancy."
The intentional minimization of testing and contract tracing .. a central goal of Trump and Trumpism
Just another way that corporate interests "trump" citizens' interests