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An_Old_Big_Tree OP wrote

Is South Africa the only place they banned alcohol in lockdown?

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celebratedrecluse wrote

they banned alcohol? why would the state ban alcohol during a pandemic?

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An_Old_Big_Tree OP wrote

I think it's moral? They also banned cigarettes.

Mostly I think a lot of violence and car accidents are bound up in drinking here. Crime has gone down massively under lockdown (In the first week of lockdown, only 94 murders were recorded in the country — from 326 in the same week in 2019. The number of rapes was down 86%.) Though obviously the variables here are confounded. One thing they said was that alcohol encourages gatherings?

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celebratedrecluse wrote

What a great way to make it more difficult to cheaply sanitize surfaces

I am sorry for the people of SA

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