Right, as those are deemed essential. Places like those absolutely cannot shut down, but tons of places are putting in efforts to limit the amount of people in those essential businesses as well.
You could go to those places though and come into contact with one or two people depending on if you're cautious or even if you just use self checkout. There are tons of businesses right now not doing anything or doing a limited amount to combat this. There's an employee at my work sick right now and we haven't even had a conversation about it. Lol for all I know he could have this virus and everyone in this office could be in the same boat as him.
Yes, I understand that, and thanks for clarifying. My "point" was more that those in charge use certain phrases and they mean something specific, and the rest of the world hears and reads the same phrases and understands them completely differently. Everyone needs to use the simplest terms with no ambiguity (or as little as possible) today. When I first read/heard "shelter in place" all I could think of was bombs being dropped on people who were outside and visible. Even though I was pretty sure that wasn't what was meant.