Wiesbaden (my local town) has two Covid-ban-rules going into effect shortly....which affect alcohol consumption.
First, note that bars are officially closed now, period. Your only avenue to purchase booze or beer? You had two paths. You could walk down to your local grocery and buy it. Or you could go to a food stand and buy beer or gluhwein (the heated stuff).
The intent of the government to this point....it was going to be very limited ways of public consumption.
So we move to the two new ban-rules:
1. From 11 PM to 6 AM....no booze/beer can be consumed in any part of the city. From the river area, to my outlying neighborhood 8 km away.....you can't stand in any public setting (even a city park) and consume an ounce of booze.
2. From 4 PM to 11 PM....around the Luisenplatz (the central part of the city where a small 'dirt' park exists and the major departure point for city buses resides).....no booze consumption.
What makes this Luisenplatz area rule a curious one....this single park is traditionally where the drunks (homeless included) hung out and drunk to excess. You could stand around the bus-stop in mid-summer, and there'd likely be forty somewhat drunk folks standing there and BSing.
What happens now with the Luisenplatz drunks? No one says much. I'm guessing they will move over a block or two....to another park. It wouldn't surprise me if another ban-rule for the new park occurs by mid-January, and the drunks get pushed once again.
More alcohol bans to come? No one really says much. Alcohol heavily relating to the passing of the virus? The general idea is that you get stupid....break social distancing rules, and trigger excess virus issues.
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But why the time frame? Why not just ban drinking in public all day? And what is to stop people from the same dangers at home?
Curfews are also silly. As if the virus waits until 10pm to get people so if you are in the house by 9:59 you will be ok?
It is all about control and imposing their morals on others.
With the more recent 'ban-rule', public drinking (for all day) is exercised to the extreme. I agree...you could go home and drink on the patio or on the doorstep, without 'pain'. The push I think, relates to 10-percent of people who drink gluhwein (or beer) to excess, and their buddy does the same and they stand shoulder-to-shoulder (without realizing it). I'll add that most people who drink gluhwein...drink standing up and at a 4-ft tall table, barely 30 inches across. Social distancing in that case is a joke.
On the nighttime curfews, people who hang out past 10 PM...normally drink or smoke happy-weed, or have pill-form-happiness. The 'control-crowd' believes that if you ban it or curfew it...then they don't make serious mistakes. I'd look at the mess and just say...let's start the party at 6PM, drink gluhwein in the forest, and return home by 9 PM.
Part of this bigger issue, which the controllers can't admit...the hospital system has reached a maxed-out level (not so much ICU beds, but just care-takers/nurses). I read this morning of a retirement home where virtually all of the caretakers had Covid-19. In this case, they had one single person per shift who was not ill...to handle over a hundred folks. This discussion is the one that should worry folks. You don't want to be in some hospital wing with 120 folks in ICU beds and only two nurses available.
"I'll add that most people who drink gluhwein...drink standing up and at a 4-ft tall table, barely 30 inches across."
Guilty as charged. LOL
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