O dear, banning alcohol during a lock down surely will get the French out in masses?
'Residents of the French department of Aisne are heading for a truly harsh coronavirus lockdown, as local authorities have imposed a blanket ban on alcohol sales. The move is for their own good, officials argue.
Announcing the decision on Tuesday, Prefect of the department Ziad Khoury pointed out that alcohol abuse often goes hand in hand with domestic violence - which, many fear, is bound to surge under the lockdown.'
www.rt.com
I had already been thinking of the grave issue of the probability of rising domestic violence numbers due to these lockdowns. Horrendous. My mother lives in The Netherlands and she said a few days ago the help lines are being overwhelmed with people having great difficulty with the children at home all the time.... imagine that.... Another feat of the panic football-measures creating real victims, who have nowhere to go.
Meanwhile here in Algarve, the weather indeed also cooler than normal for this time of year (i'm told by locals). Majority not wearing face masks, no screens in supermarkets (no shortages of anything either) and at local Spar people can just come and go and no one is standing 1.5 meters from each other. They are also out and about walking and still wearing friendly faces.
Funny thing: my daughter studying at Uni Of Leeds got all exams etc cancelled for this academic year, all first and second years pass while daughter at Uni of Newcastle (UK) still has to do all assessments and exams which are most probably due to be set for now in August. So totally up to the individual uni, no uniform policy it seems.
'Residents of the French department of Aisne are heading for a truly harsh coronavirus lockdown, as local authorities have imposed a blanket ban on alcohol sales. The move is for their own good, officials argue.
Announcing the decision on Tuesday, Prefect of the department Ziad Khoury pointed out that alcohol abuse often goes hand in hand with domestic violence - which, many fear, is bound to surge under the lockdown.'
No corona for you: French local authority bans ALCOHOL sales amid virus lockdown
Residents of the French department of Aisne are heading for a truly harsh coronavirus lockdown, as local authorities have imposed a blanket ban on alcohol sales. The move is for their own good, officials argue.
I had already been thinking of the grave issue of the probability of rising domestic violence numbers due to these lockdowns. Horrendous. My mother lives in The Netherlands and she said a few days ago the help lines are being overwhelmed with people having great difficulty with the children at home all the time.... imagine that.... Another feat of the panic football-measures creating real victims, who have nowhere to go.
Meanwhile here in Algarve, the weather indeed also cooler than normal for this time of year (i'm told by locals). Majority not wearing face masks, no screens in supermarkets (no shortages of anything either) and at local Spar people can just come and go and no one is standing 1.5 meters from each other. They are also out and about walking and still wearing friendly faces.
Funny thing: my daughter studying at Uni Of Leeds got all exams etc cancelled for this academic year, all first and second years pass while daughter at Uni of Newcastle (UK) still has to do all assessments and exams which are most probably due to be set for now in August. So totally up to the individual uni, no uniform policy it seems.
