Jill Hendrix said that her decision to re-open the store was based on the confidence that she and her husband were “relatively young and healthy” — she is 46 years old and her husband is 60 — and the assumption that “everyone would get [the coronavirus] eventually.”

Via: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/83123-south-carolina-bookstore-shares-story-of-re-opening.html

Let us all remember which places care more about profits than people.

#BooksAreEssential, right?

I mean literally, this story is about how they don't care if people get sick because everyone's gonna get sick but come get your books because ESSENTIAL.

Spoiler: if your customers die, so does your business.