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FILE - In this March 24, 2020, file photo, bakers sell bread in a Boulogne-Billancourt bakery outside Paris. The coronavirus pandemic has much of the world contemplating an existential question amid a growing number of stay-at-home orders, with only "essential" service providers allowed to go to their jobs. As U.S. states enact sweeping stay-at-home orders, there is lots of agreement on what's essential, but some have their own notions. A few are eyebrow raisers. Among them are guns, golf and cannabis. Most lists, being compiled by governors and others, capture the basics of what's essential. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena,File)

FILE - In this March 24, 2020, file photo, bakers sell bread in a Boulogne-Billancourt bakery outside Paris. The coronavirus pandemic has much of the world contemplating an existential question amid a growing number of stay-at-home orders, with only "essential" service providers allowed to go to their jobs. As U.S. states enact sweeping stay-at-home orders, there is lots of agreement on what's essential, but some have their own notions. A few are eyebrow raisers. A…

March 28, 2020

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What's essential? In France: pastry, wine. In US: golf, guns
March 28, 2020 1:30 p.m.

What's essential? In France: pastry, wine. In US: golf, guns

The coronavirus pandemic is defining for the globe what's “essential” and what things we really can't do without, even though we might not need them for survival.