NSW Health limits residents of locked-down tower block to six beers per day

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/nsw-health-limits-residents-of-lockeddown-tower-block-to-six-beers-per-day/news-story/0e387ceccee145a611ddb6e38872d3d5

by walterbell • 5 years ago

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newbamboo• 5 years ago

Can you save them up and really have a go on the weekend or is it “use it or lose it”? I feel like six is pretty reasonable, especially for the sheilas. Especially the bigger fosters cans.

gweinberg• 5 years ago

It read to me like that's how many you can bring in, so it is possible to save the extras if you somehow have any.

mulmen• 5 years ago

I smell arbitrage.

javagram• 5 years ago

The article is a bit confusing because as you read along

A Sydney Local Health District spokeswoman confirmed the limits are in place in NSW Health’s Special Health Accomodation, where Covid-positive patients and close contacts are sent for isolation.
[. . .] A NSW Police spokeswoman said Police officers are not confiscating alcohol delivered to residential buildings, and do not have powers to do so.

Digging further it seems like the building is a homeless shelter and is under a 2 week lockdown https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/mission-aust...

Placing restrictions on deliveries to people’s homes that they own would seem excessive but I’m not sure if the same should apply to a social housing building of this type. I think homeless shelters elsewhere restrict alcohol and impose other stringent rules.

throwawaylinux• 5 years ago

These are formerly-homeless people's homes. It's not a "shelter" you might traditionally think of, it's a block of apartments that people live in.

It's a social housing project, and probably there is a relatively high proportion of residents with mental health issues, but that does not mean they forfeit their fundamental rights. Or rather, it should not: the exact same slippery slope argument has been used countless times in the past to strip people of their freedom, privacy, autonomy, and to take their children away from them.

Andys• 5 years ago

This reminds me of the outcry when the Australian Bathurst 1000 car race, introduced beer limits to their campgrounds.

I was angry initially, then found out it was limited to 24 cans of full strength beer per person per day - apparently this is not enough for the event patrons.

unraveller4• 5 years ago

From 24 down to 6 a day, and soon... 0.

If this observation doesn't convert you over to our teaching about the one true slippery slope, I guess nothing will. The nanny state doesn't have a point at which it is satisfied, it's drunk on power -- as are the people who repeat the decreasingly "reasonable" dictates verbatim.

brnt3• 5 years ago

People who drink 24 beers + a day need a nanny, I'd say.

hamburgerwah• 5 years ago

Has australia ever been a 1st world country?

heshiebee• 5 years ago

Power corrupts absolutely power corrupts absolutely. -John Dalberg-Acton

This is why government power and control should be limited even for health and safety reasons.

grecy2• 5 years ago

I was recently locked in a hotel room for 2 weeks in Sydney because I flew in from Canada.

During that time, I was allowed to order only 6 beers or one bottle of wine per day. If I ordered more (with door dash or whatever) the front desk would hold it and only deliver the allowed amount per day.

Out of spite I was tempted to order 6 beers each and every day, then drink them all on the last day!

hulitu• 5 years ago

How big is a beer in Australia and what is the alcohol content ?

grecy2• 5 years ago

A normal beer is 375ml, usually around 4%, usually around 1.2 or 1.4 standard drinks.

olliej4• 5 years ago

When I was in NZ's MIQ you were only allowed a certain volume of alcohol - e.g. X beers, 1 bottle of wine, or something like that each day, and to get more on later days you would have to put the consumed bottles out for collection, so you couldn't store them and then binge drink.

Seemed entirely reasonable to me.

unraveller4• 5 years ago

Sounds like you missed a golden opportunity to perfect your prison hooch game. That's pruno/moonshine made & stored in a toilet for those playing at home.

olliej4• 5 years ago

I like sambuca which I don't know how to make, but I'm also genuinely curious as to how long fermentation and distilling would take

brnt3• 5 years ago

This sort of rule is indicative of some problem. Is binge drinking such a big problem down under?

olliej4• 5 years ago

... yes. very much so.

sjdrc• 5 years ago

Why do you think it’s reasonable for the government to be deciding how much private citizens can drink? Would you support a country wide policy like this regardless of whether someone is in lockdown or not?

olliej4• 5 years ago

I think it's reasonable when people are confined to a hotel room for two weeks.

brnt3• 5 years ago

It's reasonable that governments would regulate what the WHO classifies a hard drug.

mbg721• 5 years ago

Are there any limits on ripe-fruit delivery? 20th-century America has a manual for this sort of situation.

walterbell• 5 years ago

Thank you for this hacker response!

Ekaros• 5 years ago

Time to take up baking and juice making? Need lot of sugar, some special yeast and this special pan...

nix233• 5 years ago

Wow this is what i call a police state! When a Government thinks it is the parent of his children's.

NSW Health limits residents of locked-down tower block to six beers per day

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