Updated lockdown rules recommended for South Africa’s elections

[BusinessTech]

Updated lockdown rules recommended for South Africa’s elections

The Department of Health has published a new advisory with updated lockdown recommendations for South Africa's local government elections on 1 November.

 

[maxxis]

• Alcohol: Consideration should be given to the limitation of alcohol sales on Election Day.

Huh?
Why? Am I going to celebrate the **** out of voting for the ANC? For me it is just another day where I sleep in a bit and later walk across the road around 16:30 and go quickly vote.

 

[ToxicBunny]

How is banning alcohol sales on Election day going to do anything?

Everyone would have been paid before that date (mostly) and would just buy on Saturday or Sunday.
Fscking hell this current MAC and DoH lot are a bunch of monumental retards

 

[C4Cat]

Huh?
Why? Am I going to celebrate the **** out of voting for the ANC? For me it is just another day where I sleep in a bit and later walk across the road around 16:30 and go quickly vote.

Oh right, we'll let the government know that maxxis just sleeps in and then walks across the road to vote so there is no need to consider anything or anyone else

 

[maxxis]

Oh right, we'll let the government know that maxxis just sleeps in and then walks across the road to vote so there is no need to consider anything or anyone else

Can I put this on an official letterhead for you?

 

[ShaunSA]

Fscking hell this current MAC and DoH lot are a bunch of monumental retards

The old MAC wasn't any better tbh

 

[ShaunSA]

The recommendations were made by health experts on the Covid-19 Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC), and suggest that curfew and gathering restrictions could be relaxed on election day itself.

So one big super spreader event then

The bodies are going to be piling up in the streets!

 

[pinball wizard]

So one big super spreader event then

The bodies are going to be piling up in the streets!

Look out around the 14th of November. You're gonna need waders and gum boots to trudge through the dead.

 

[dusi]

• Alcohol: Consideration should be given to the limitation of alcohol sales on Election Day.

The fact that election day = get wasted, sums up everything wrong with SA

 

[Flanders]

I wonder what date the grinch will announce that she's fscking up Christmas...

 

[Aghori]

How is banning alcohol sales on Election day going to do anything?

Everyone would have been paid before that date (mostly) and would just buy on Saturday or Sunday.
Fscking hell this current MAC and DoH lot are a bunch of monumental retards

Their plan is for people not to walk/taxi/drive to liquor outlets on that day. They want to ensure that people have enough time to vote etc.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Their plan is for people not to walk/taxi/drive to liquor outlets on that day. They want to ensure that people have enough time to vote etc.

Their plan is fatally flawed, people will just buy before hand and then not be able to walk...

being on a Monday many people already can't walk/work due to babalaas anyway, so closing bottle stores won't fix that.

 

[ToxicBunny]

The old MAC wasn't any better tbh

Yeah true, but they were less hellbent on randomly banning alcohol from what I remember.

 

[ShaunSA]

Their plan is for people not to walk/taxi/drive to liquor outlets on that day. They want to ensure that people have enough time to vote etc.

What about those of us who are washing our hair on that day?

 

[ToxicBunny]

What about those of us who are washing our hair on that day?

Just shave your head, then you no longer have to worry about washing your hair.

 

[pinball wizard]

What about those of us who are washing our hair on that day?

But - I do remember the ads on TV saying not to drink it...

 

[ShaunSA]

But - I do remember the ads on TV saying not to drink it...

Nee fok that shampoo was rubbish! Made my hair drop

Not to mention what it did to my balls