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Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jan 21, 2020.

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  1. Machine Head

    Machine Head Well-Known Member

    I remember when I got my orders to report to the front lines in the War Against Christmas.

    What an awful conflict. I was at the Battle of the Suburban Cul-De-Sac. I can't speak of what I saw.

    My wife was sobbing when I left, not knowing if I would make it back.

    The sacrifices we as a country have made!
     
    Machine Head, Apr 23, 2020
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  2. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    If I say June 1, then I mean June 1.

    Let's just see where we are then.
     
    Alma, Apr 23, 2020
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  3. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Nice to see an underdog catch a break.

     
    garrow, Apr 23, 2020
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  4. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Good piece here about how lobbyists got Denver to reverse its Prohibition order.

    Panicked Denver residents kept liquor, marijuana stores open during coronavirus shutdown

    As for why liquor stores were kept open, from the store: Closing liquor stores could send alcoholics into withdrawal, placing their health at risk and straining a medical system already spread thin by the virus.

    When the Denver mayor announced that liquor stores and dispensaries were going to close the next day, there was a massive rush to those stores by "panicked" crowds. The order was reversed two hours later.

    “The mayor said not to panic buy, but that is exactly what he encouraged people to do by shutting us down," one liquor store owner said.

    After panicked crowds swarm Denver liquor stores and dispensaries, mayor reverses order to close both
     
    MileHigh, Apr 23, 2020
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  5. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    garrow, Apr 23, 2020
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  6. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    So were marijuana shops kept open to stave off withdrawal for weedaholics?

    Given the hospitals almost everywhere have not been overwhelmed, and are indeed losing money hand over fist, was there any consideration to rethink the social $cience behind addiction? Or any consideration that many AA meetings are larger than 10?

    Let’s be honest: they’re making the exceptions based on what they think will and won’t piss people off enough to keep them compliant. It’s a little wonder that, after last weekend, Michigan’s governor is talking about revising the stay at home order.
     
    Alma, Apr 23, 2020
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  7. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Alma, Apr 23, 2020
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  8. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Sounds like a line straight out of The Onion.

    Grocery store booze isn't strong enough to stave off withdrawal?
     
    Last edited: Apr 23, 2020
    BTExpress, Apr 23, 2020
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  9. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Most dispensaries sell both medical and recreational marijuana.

    From the story above that you did not read: The businesses were needed not only so residents could safely access their medicine or recreational marijuana, Bradley noted, but also to keep small businesses open and hold on to full- and part-time employees at a time when Coloradans were filing for unemployment en masse.

    And I will say, the latter part of that is bullshit and I don't agree with since the restaurant industry has cratered not just here, but nationally.
     
    MileHigh, Apr 23, 2020
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  10. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    I sort of believe it. Addiction specialists know how bad America’s collective addiction to alcohol really is - especially among upper middle class households that fell in love with hard booze and high ABV brews over the last 15 years.

    20 years ago it was knocking back 6 Bud Lights, and it’s fine. Now it’s 3-4 Moose Creeks or Tommy’s Blue Barretta, or whatever you choose to call a craft, and you feel like you’re halfway around the moon.
     
    Alma, Apr 23, 2020
    #6154
  11. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    i can still hear the partridges screaming as we rained fiery figgy pudding upon the pear trees even the maids a milking were not spared our savagery there were no ladies dancing that evening my friend for the golden rings of fury in our eyes would not extinguish until all the geese were laying limp and lifeless
     
    DanielSimpsonDay, Apr 23, 2020
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  12. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Anyone see Elizabeth Warren's brother just died of Covid?
     
    goalmouth, Apr 23, 2020
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