{"id":2385,"date":"2020-10-24T09:57:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T22:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2020-10-24T09:57:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T22:57:22","slug":"people-prevented-from-buying-non-essential-items-due-to-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/people-prevented-from-buying-non-essential-items-due-to-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"People Prevented From Buying \u201cNon-Essential\u201d Items Due to Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/author\/11\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Joseph Watson<\/a>  &#8211; October 23rd 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/non-essential-items.png?resize=800%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/non-essential-items.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/non-essential-items.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/non-essential-items.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Image Credit:Twitter\/Grant Tucker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\n<p>The image shows shop workers covering up what appear to be duvets and other bedding products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Non-essential items being covered up in supermarkets in Wales. Has it really come to this? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YwtIUjgc8P\">pic.twitter.com\/YwtIUjgc8P<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Grant Tucker (@GrantTucker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrantTucker\/status\/1319615885250842624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<p>As we <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/04\/09\/uk-police-force-threatens-to-search-shopping-baskets-to-catch-lockdown-violators\/\" target=\"_blank\">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\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\n<p>In the same month, one shopper was <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/04\/13\/police-fine-uk-shopper-for-buying-wine-during-coronavirus-lockdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fined<\/a> by police for buying wine and potato chips, which were deemed to be \u201cnon-essential\u201d items.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/author\/11\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Joseph Watson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Joseph Watson &#8211; October 23rd 2020 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. \u201cNon-essential items being covered up in supermarkets in Wales. Has it really come to this?\u201d asked journalist Grant Tucker. The image shows shop&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/people-prevented-from-buying-non-essential-items-due-to-lockdown\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People Prevented From Buying \u201cNon-Essential\u201d Items Due to Lockdown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,7,198,151,769],"tags":[116,1392,10,41,43,42,1271],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/non-essential-items.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}