Lift the Ban on Plastic Bags-help curb the spread of the virus

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15. For further discussion:

In light of what's happening with regards to the spread of the coronavirus, I've noticed that some clerks do not want to handle the reusable bags. They just place the food in the shopping cart, and the customer has to fill their own bags. Also, some customers
have already placed their reusable bags on the conveyor belt prompting the checkout clerk in a particular store to disinfect the entire belt before checking out another customer.

It was pointed out in one of the previous comments that the virus can survive on the plastic. The stores were using brand new clean bags. Clerks fill the clean bags, customers leave the store. Apparently, the canvass bags can sustain the virus:
https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/using-tote-bags-instead-of-plastic-could-help-spread-the-coronavirus/

"The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians and environmentalists have been so eager to impose on the public. These reusable tote bags can sustain the COVID-19 and flu viruses — and spread the viruses throughout the store.