An essential business you say?

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16. My wife's church has cancelled services.

But still has some service suborganizations working.

They get together *more* often now since the shelter-in-place order. Instead of one Saturday a month it's 2-3 times a week (other organizations handled the other Saturdays). They assemble sandwiches. Form up into crews in trucks and SUVs. Then they go out and deliver meals to the homeless along the highways--depending on the day, anywhere from 75 to 125 of them. They check up on them, ask if there's anything they desperately need. They've taken up collections to buy tents, cots, blankets, etc., etc., etc.

With reduced traffic on the roads and social distancing fear, the homeless around here report both fewer donations of food and of money from the good citizens. They don't file tax returns. They don't have addresses.


The order also says that things like public schools, fire departments, and police are essential services. As are some NGOs that are decidedly progressive in nature. Not traditional "businesses," those.