Where do you suppose people will get food if they do that?

from small shops
you maybe dont know but people didnt starve to death before supermarkets appeared

But wouldn't they also be closed if the situation is severe enough to close supermarkets?

why should we close small shops first and not the large ones?
anyway it looks like closing them doesnt even slow down the spread

Funny, that you say the lockdowns work, when there is a fully peer reviewed paper that says otherwise.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484

Did they do a test with mandatory masks too? Wonder if those help at all or not.

Or maybe it's their choice. I'm finding lockdown supporters breaking lockdowns restrictions all the time. Lockdown arachitects have even been caught flouting the rules. I'd much, much rather go after the people that let it into these countries in the first place. I notice no one ever seems to criticize China's response or the response of people who knew about china's response well before it ever made it across the world. No no, focus on the lockdown breakers, which includes the people advocating for it. Sounds more like governments are being asked to control people by people who can't control themselves.

But, hey, let's keep trying to do this thing, and watch people find new ways to compensate, meanwhile find that manages to do more overall damage but not actually do anything about the problem we thought it was going to solve. I mean, common, you'd think if something doesn't work and turns out to be entirely impractical, you'd learn and not try to do the thing harder. But, for some reason, just as people are "stupid" to ignore the lockdowns, i'd argue people are "stupid" to propose them. They don't work. What do we call it when people do the same thing over and over again expecting a different result? So you're saying people actually obeyed these lockdown rules and didn't meet up in stores? I heard those George Floyd protests totally didn't happen in europe.

Oh, and how is that curfew going to keep people apart? See, we have this problem in the US where Walmarts stopped being a 24/hr shopping center. In the past, if i wanted to go to walmart and buy food without running into people (like during flu outbreaks), i could go at 1AM. Now everyone's being shoved in at about the same times.

Meanwhile, you know where it's safest to go in the US right now, from what i've seen? Cities full of people. Why? Because they all got it back in March, so they still have immunity. I've been telling people to go to the nearest city to do their shopping because the case numbers are lowest in those locations (they're about the same as rural areas, but when you normalize for population density, your chances of infection per encounter are significantly lower). Well, like i said, it wasn't just Christmas gifts they were warned for. But, i would agree, there's no reason for Christmas gifts. Maybe warning traveling businessmen that they need to go home to shut down their factory, however, is warranted. You could argue there shouldn't be traveling businessmen, but, then again, who the hell pays these politicians to order the lockdowns? I sure as hell don't recall voting for it nor hearing about a vote in any other country.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that they do. See this post and feel free to find the fault in logic.

I'm goign to second what Orkhepaj is implying, and take it a step further: preferring small stores over larger stores would've lowered distribution rates. As it stands right now, however, my experience is that everything in my area other than walmart has even employees violating company masking policies. It's as if these companies know that walmart would be the only one reported to regulators (i do wonder where they get that idea[/sarcasm]).

There have been some tests on masks and their effectivness. A lot of news reports are twisting this to say any mask work while ignoring what type of mask they are talking about i.e surgical types and simple fixes like having a proper seal to
increase effectivness.If you have been wearing these ones you will have found unless you press them onto your face
you can still smell perfumes and smoke. https://scitechdaily.com/most-common-covid-masks-only-filter-about-10-of-exhaled-aerosol-droplets/



The next test is stating the obvious and not all masks with valves vent down.Perhaps they should stick another filter onto it. https://scitechdaily.com/airflow-videos-clearly-show-why-masks-with-exhalation-valves-do-not-slow-the-spread-of-covid-19/



This article looks at what is coming off the masks when they are disposed. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0043135421002311
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.117033

If masks have a health cost by using them then the better than nothing argument fails and it become a case of where the hell are better face filters and masks that people can use all day safely?

Yeah, surgical and cloth mask probably aren't very useful, and the thing about masks with valves should be self-explanatory.
I think the N95/FFP2 masks might still have some effect in public transport and the like. But given that vaccines are now universally available I don't see how masking mandates can be kept up beyond next winter.