Does a ban on booze help?

Does a ban on booze help free up valuable space and resources in the hospitals?

  • Yes

    Votes: 222 52.1%

  • No

    Votes: 204 47.9%
  • Total voters
    426
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Do you believe that a complete ban on alcohol help free up valuable space and resources in the hospitals?

Follow-up: And if so does that justify the ban or are the other costs associated with the ban (income, tax money, etc) more important?
 
I'm not a healthcare worker so I have no idea but from what I read it sounds like it helps a lot.
 
Yes, fewer people frequenting the Shebeens coz a quart has gone up from 16 bucks to 28 bucks, and by the end of next month it will be 40 bux.
Now you have less upset voters returning home at midnight and stabbing each other
 
My concern with it is that other countries who's lockdowns successfully flattened the curve didn't ban all booze. They may have banned drinking at establishments but that was more for people socializing.
 
Before the virus they knew thay had X amount for patients per day, per weekend, per week, per month due to alcohol related incidents .... They then had 21 days to prepare for covid to handle and care for the over and above X amount they already getting. ... and now they can't handle it?? ... what happened after the first wave? ... why was some places closed and never opened again? ... So it's not alcohol's fault ... there's isn't suddenly more related incidents ... they're just not prepared like they claimed to be when this all started !!
 
I do not personally think the ban on booze is to help curb the virus.
It will help purely because our hospitals aren't getting swamped. the amount of booze related visits to the hospital in our country is staggering. By taking that out our hospitals have space, somewhat to help.
Off course, this is just a bandaid to show our hospitials is inadequate in the first place.

If our healthcare were up to scratch, and we did not have so many people causing kak when drunk, there would have been no need for the ban.
 
bwana said:
Do you believe that a complete ban on alcohol help free up valuable space and resources in the hospitals?

Follow-up: And if so does that justify the ban or are the other costs associated with the ban (income, tax money, etc) more important?
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Perhaps we should look at the actual space and if there is any has it been improved over the years instead of band-aid it? I mean in the same breath I can say complete ban on poor people because poor people do crime and victims of crime also takes up beds.

imo both are as equally retarded...

edit (before we get more done-account questions)
both as in band-aid it and banning poor people...
 
eg2505 said:
nope, people will get drunk just as easily as before, only difference is now criminals will profit from this shortsighted measure.
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Those that can afford to yes I agree
The guys here at work haven't had a dop in weeks
They literally cannot afford to go to the shebeen and buy just 1 quart and then go home, they say it isn't worth it and will just wait until the booze ban is over so that shebeen prices can return to normal.
Because work is quiet at the moment they are also not earning the overtime that they have become so used to.
 
Big Rat said:
I do not personally think the ban on booze is to help curb the virus.
It will help purely because our hospitals aren't getting swamped. the amount of booze related visits to the hospital in our country is staggering. By taking that out our hospitals have space, somewhat to help.
Off course, this is just a bandaid to show our hospitials is inadequate in the first place.

If our healthcare were up to scratch, and we did not have so many people causing kak when drunk, there would have been no need for the ban.
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I do not think the booze ban is preventing the crazies from getting fukked up over the weekend and stabbing each other.

And regarding car accidents due to being drunk: technically the curfew should take care of that hand in hand with proper policing.

So I voted a resounding: NO
 
neoprema said:
My concern with it is that other countries who's lockdowns successfully flattened the curve didn't ban all booze. They may have banned drinking at establishments but that was more for people socializing.
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Do you or not agree booze encourages gathering?
 
I would have just added a temporary R10000 tax to every unit of alcohol. If someone gets drunk under those circumstances, you know they invested the effort, and they’ve basically already funded any hospital stay.
 
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