I'm pretty sure everyone in my household got it, and recovered, but none of us had symptoms that rose to the level of getting tested, because the US doesn't have tests. I had been called into work the day before I started showing symptoms, so that sucks, but we've been quarantining since then. We're definitely not going insane, slowly.
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Oh right? That’s mad! How come they don’t sell booze? I have 2 supermarkets, which both sell booze and a really nice wine focused off licence just around the corner in the same complex. I’ll be there on Monday/Tuesday stocking up!
For the record, my symptoms in the order I got them were:
- Continual headache for a week, from last Monday to this Monday.
- Congestion/light and intermittent unproductive cough from last Wednesday to Monday.
- Low grade fever <101 starting last Thursday to Monday.
- Exhaustion. Slept over 12 hours a day, compared to my normal 6.
- Loss of smell and major reduction of taste. Still recovering from that. Ask me about over salting the scrambled eggs!
Up until 7 years ago liquor licenses could only be held by up to 3 locations max by the same owners / chain statewide. There are a couple grocery stores that do have beer and wine. Just none around me.
They changed the law to 5 locations 6 years ago, and now its a max of 8 locations. The issue now is all the liquor licenses allotted to each town/city are in use. So even though grocery stores could expand beer/wine to more locations now, getting the liquor licenses to do so are not available.
I remember one store 6 years ago bid $750,000 on liquor licenses when a liquor store lost their licenses for being caught selling to uderage kids one to many times. A lot of times, the chain stores.
Go back 15 years ago and sales of alcohol were prohibited state wide on Sunday including at restaurants. Bars were closed. We also had a law that prohibited beer / wine at convenience stores that has been repealed sometime over the last 20 years. I don't remember when.
Hell, I remember back in the early 90's blue laws even restricted stores on Sunday. Most were closed, somewhere only open 12:00 pm to 6pm on Sundays.
Jesus! We’d not cope. Up until last year we had two days of no on or off licence sales. Christmas Day, obviously, and Good Friday. Every shop would have its booze section emptied on Holy Thursday as if we were never getting any more booze ever!
Also, drinking in Public is illegal in MA.
Tailgating at Gillette stadium before a Patriots came and crack open a beer? The police are out and about looking for that and will make you dump it all out and write a citation.
Same for drinking at the beach or a public park while having a picnic or cookout.
Up until just last year, Boston had a brown bag law. You could get a citation if your booze purchase was not hidden in a brown bag while walking down the sidewalk.
There are 3 days in MA where sales of Alcohol are still prohibited. Christmas, Easter Sunday and Memorial Day.
Tailgating at Gillette stadium before a Patriots came and crack open a beer? The police are out and about looking for that and will make you dump it all out and write a citation.
Same for drinking at the beach or a public park while having a picnic or cookout.
Up until just last year, Boston had a brown bag law. You could get a citation if your booze purchase was not hidden in a brown bag while walking down the sidewalk.
There are 3 days in MA where sales of Alcohol are still prohibited. Christmas, Easter Sunday and Memorial Day.
dhodo
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Still can't buy liquor on Sundays here. Can't sell liquor in the same store as anything else, including beer, so there are big liquor stores where one side is just liquor and one side is beer and wine. Only the beer and wine side is open Sundays. Most counties in SC, you can't buy any alcohol on Sundays, luckily here you can buy beer and wine. Did not work well where I went to college. Everyone would drive drunk to the grocery stores at 1145 on Saturday because they ran out of beer.
Until a few years ago, you could give out sample shots of liquor, but not beer. Can't explain that one.
High Rant District
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Would the Admin/Mod group who are all (or overwhelmingly) radically-left politically feel the same way if the attacks were on Democrats? That's a rhetorical question.
You are opening the floodgates to hatred, such as:
That is the opposite of a fact, that is an opinion. I know you're stressed and you have good reasons to be stressed. We all do. The trick is to avoid taking it out on others if you can do so. Adding to another person's stress is not the reason this forum exists - or at least that shouldn't be the reason. We're here because we love music, and despite any other differences we have, music is the thing that brings us together.
Ed Selley
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Not for the first time, I'm not too upset we 'encouraged' Puritans to go and have a lovely life in the New World.
When the UK, issued the lockdown orders on Tuesday, off licenses were omitted by accident. This was sorted promptly.
This country hasn't faced a challenge sober since the Romans invaded and has no desire to start now.
TrainFan73
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Did you call your doctor? If you have symptoms, you should be able to get a test.
dhodo
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I agree with your sentiment, but I'm not sure I understand why you latched onto that meme. What he said in that moment is objectively stupid. Some view it as stupidly dangerous and some view it as Trump just making a stupid joke (not necessarily bad, just stupid as in a dumb joke). The meme is just making fun of the fact that Fauci touched his face. I don't get how that meme is offensive to Trump/politics.
Edit: I'm also not sure how you can say it is purely subjective that the US isn't doing a great job right now. There are quite a few objective metrics by which we could have or could be doing better responding to this crisis. Maybe you took that statement in a much broader sense than I did though. I guess I chose to view it in the scope of this thread.
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Honestly, with the shortages of tests in our state and the number of people who actually need help, we felt it was more ethical to self-quarantine and notify the people we came into contact with when our symptoms first developed rather than go to a doctors office, hospital, or health facility and potentially expose others.
We would have reassessed if our symptoms had merited more formal care, but they never did.
People in our neighborhood were playing basketball wearing masks until they took the hoops off the backboards.
New Hampshire cracks me up. Beer / Wine can be sold anywhere. Liquor can only be sold at State Liquor Stores. Many of these are on Freeway Rest Stops. Yes, let's get everyone on the freeway to buy their liquor.
Do they not have backroad access?
Nope, at least the ones I'm familiar with on I-93 and I-95.
Derp.
To be fair I tend to be sober when I buy the vast majority of my booze
Same here.
But 10 years ago when I was working retail management at a wholesale club during the recession that did sell booze, many drunks did come in pounded to by more booze. It is an issue/
TenderLovingKiller®
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Well, if that’s what it is then we might have it too. We haven’t had a temp but I have had the cough, light congestion, and a intermittent fatigue and headaches. I have just been blaming it all on allergies/sinus issues since pretty much everything started blooming this past week. We have been following the WA State’s shelter in place order anyhow. If we have passed it to anyone it would be our Kitty as she has been exceptionally sneezy as of late.
Regardless, thanks for the insight and I hope you and yours are feeling better.