{"id":33294,"date":"2020-10-25T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T14:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=33294"},"modified":"2020-10-25T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T14:50:23","slug":"the-welsh-are-being-blocked-from-buying-non-essential-items-due-to-corona-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=33294","title":{"rendered":"The Welsh Are Being Blocked From Buying Non-Essential Items Due To Corona Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>CORONAVIRUS<\/h4>\n<h1>People Prevented From Buying \u201cNon-Essential\u201d Items Due to Lockdown<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Products in supermarket covered up with plastic sheeting.<\/h3>\n<p>Paul Joseph Watson<br \/>\nSUMMIT News<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33295\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33295\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/231020supermarket1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/231020supermarket1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/231020supermarket1-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/231020supermarket1-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-33295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter\/Grant Tucker<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>People living under new lockdown rules in Wales have been prevented from buying so-called \u201cnon-essential\u201d items, which are being covered with plastic sheeting at supermarkets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNon-essential items being covered up in supermarkets in Wales. Has it really come to this?\u201d asked journalist Grant Tucker.<\/p>\n<p>The image shows shop workers covering up what appear to be duvets and other bedding products.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-4\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-4&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1319615885250842624&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2020%2F10%2F23%2Fpeople-prevented-from-buying-non-essential-items-due-to-lockdown%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1319615885250842624\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why people should be prevented from buying bedding products during a coronavirus lockdown is anyone\u2019s guess, but it\u2019s par for the course given how much society has been deformed thanks to such petty restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/04\/09\/uk-police-force-threatens-to-search-shopping-baskets-to-catch-lockdown-violators\/\">previously highlighted<\/a>, during the first lockdown back in April, a police force in the UK threatened to start searching people\u2019s shopping baskets in order to catch coronavirus lockdown violators.<\/p>\n<p>Northamptonshire Police chief constable Nick Adderley prompted outrage after he appeared in a video to warn people who were buying unessential items at grocery stores that their purchases may be scrutinized by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not at this stage be starting to marshal supermarkets and checking the items in baskets and trolleys to see whether it\u2019s a legitimate, necessary item but again be under no illusion, if people do not heed the warnings and the pleas that I\u2019m making today, we will start to do that,\u201d said Adderley.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, one shopper was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/04\/13\/police-fine-uk-shopper-for-buying-wine-during-coronavirus-lockdown\/\">fined<\/a>\u00a0by police for buying wine and potato chips, which were deemed to be \u201cnon-essential\u201d items.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Wales are currently under a \u2018Tier 3\u2019 lockdown, which means people are being urged to stay at home, must not visit other households, while pubs, restaurants, gyms, churches and shops deemed \u201cnon-essential\u201d are all closed.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/10\/23\/people-prevented-from-buying-non-essential-items-due-to-lockdown\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/10\/23\/people-prevented-from-buying-non-essential-items-due-to-lockdown\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORONAVIRUS People Prevented From Buying \u201cNon-Essential\u201d Items Due to Lockdown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}