'Essential' Christmas Trees

The 'lockdown' rules in England have been hurriedly modified with specialist Christmas tree sellers, as well as farms and stalls that also offer this traditional embellishment, being reclassified as 'essential retailers' (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/nov/22/christmas-tree-sellers-allowed-to-reopen-in-england-despite-lockdown). There is some logic in this, as supermarkets and garden centres (already open as 'essential retailers') are selling cut trees along with all their other goods. Having said that, lockdown is supposed to finish on the 2nd of December, leaving most people a window of opportunity to get a tree (if they, in deed, regard having one as 'essential'). I may be going into Scrooge mode but does nobody else find the obsession with 'Christmas at any cost' a tad bizarre? It seems that we are likely to rapidly undo any gains made in reducing Covid-19 transmission, by our desire to spend, spend, spend and carry on. We might have more than a hangover after Christmas.