Originally published at: New COVID lockdown rules limit alcohol possession for certain Australians | Boing Boing
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Should be easy to enforce. /s
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I happen to recuperate better when I’ve had a few!
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They get punchy when you give to them and punchy when you take it away
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Given that the affected buildings are described as “social housing estates”, which I think is commonwealth English for “the projects”; I suspect that more than a few zealous friends of COVID would be clamoring for more razor wire and shoot-to-kill powers if this were to come to the US.
Given the reports of ‘targeted policing’ of certain areas of Sydney; and the Melbourne housing estate lockdown, one suspects that a not dissimilar spirit might be at work here.
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Sure it is. Just tie their “kangaroo” down, sport.
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But where will the get their vitamins?
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It appears that recreational marijuana is difficult to come by legally in Australia, so with no other alternative, I say…
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Make all beer Vegimite beer, that’ll fixem.
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Hide it in their vegimite sandwich?
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When my wife and I got married we went to Fiji for our honeymoon. We stayed at a pretty large resort that was primarily occupied by Aussies and New Zealanders.
One thing I learned pretty quick when having drinks at the bar early on during our vacation - don’t try and keep up with the Aussies when drinking. They were all very fun to hang out with, though.
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NSW Health; not to be confused with NSFW Health.
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Ever realize that many things associated with working in healthcare tend to be NSFW?
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The Aussies are Olympic Drinkers, can confirm.
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Australian friend told me a big part of her local scene growing up was young men getting drunk and punching each bloody. Anecdotal and I know that happens pretty much worldwide, but she said it seemed more pervasive than in the US and Britain.
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If you need at least a full bottle of whiskey a day to get through something like a quarantine a possible infection is just one of your problems.
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Yeah and given that recommended alcohol levels are 3 standard drinks a day and no more than 10 a week (for males), it seems like rationing booze in quarantine is probably a prudent thing to do. Not popular, but prudent. 
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Pretty sure the only place this is happening is Sydney. It’s not in Melbourne (people are sent to quarantine hotels). There’s a dedicated quarantine facility in the NT, Howard Springs. Think it’s also hotels in WA and SA. Not entirely sure about Qld and Tas.
@fuzzyfungus think you’re mixing up quarantine and lockdown and people’s normal homes. The Melbourne housing estate lockdown affected social/public housing towers but was not a direct quarantine effort as far as I know.
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My apologies.
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