Posted on 09/04/2020 3:02:24 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...In order to slow the spread of COVID-19, DeWine and the Ohio Liquor Control Commission passed an emergency order at the end of July to ban the sale of alcohol at Ohio bars and restaurants — or any liquor-permitted establishments — after 10 p.m. Customers have until 11 p.m. to finish their drinks.
Chief Isaac wrote a letter to Mayor Cranley, which Cranley then shared with DeWine, connecting that curfew with recent gun violence, including that which occurred over the weekend of Aug. 14-16 — one of Cincinnati's most violent weekends in memory when at least 20 people were shot, five fatally, in several separate incidents.
“The City of Cincinnati has seen a rash increase in violent crime over the last several months. Many of the incidents have occurred at ‘after-hours’ gatherings such as short-term Airbnb rentals or public areas where citizens are gathering as alternatives to liquor-permitted establishments," wrote Isaac in the letter. "CPD has recognized the increase in these assemblies has coincided with the regulation implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19."...
(Excerpt) Read more at clevescene.com ...
Say you own a bar in the cute little downtown of some upper middle class suburb--you can't stay open past 11 because the residents of your town can behave themselves.
I don’t give a hoot. I’m usually passed out by 9pm.
Liquor laws are weird everywhere. In Texas you can’t buy liquor after 9 PM but you can got to a bar and drink until 2AM. Seems like it would be safer for everyone to buy a bottle and to drink at home.
Certainly cheaper.
Cincinnati per 100,000 people is far more violent than Chicago
The things these totalitarian schmucks have foisted on the public should not be forgotten.
It seems like we should all be taking the names of these dipsh!t tinpot tyrants– elected and bureaucrats alike.
But I have to remind myself what it was like to be a young bar goer. That was a long time ago- but I do.
Bar hopping is not something important that should be an important consideration during the outbreak.
Yeah, it is rough on the owner/operators. All businesses deserve compensation for losses caused by government mandates.
Seems like DeWine has forced the re-emergence of the Illegal After Hours club
DeWine, he don’t like DeBeer or DeBooze. Hopefully the drinkers will be good and sober when his next election comes up.
Indianapolis is right up there too
of course, a lot of those doing the shooting came from Chicago
Ha! DeWiner passed the curfew law because of Covid? BS! He was looking for a payoff from the liquor industry - Don’t forget DeWiner has hired Lex Wexner’s attorney to defend him against the lawsuits pilling up.
Mike DeWiner makes the list most corrupt Governors in the US.
I did not know that about Lex Wexner’s attorney. Interesting. Thank you.
I live in the city limits on the westside (Price Hill) and have watched the Bluing of Cincinnati & Hamilton County. The county and city are both in Dem control with the flight to Butler, Warren and Clermont Counties. Shootings this year have already surpassed last. 2016 I had to replace my Trump sign twice, this year I’ll not bother but I will let the Chabot campaign place one to test the water. In the meantime I do my part. I have my wi-fi router segments named for Trump 2020 and Make America Great. With it’s location on the 2nd floor anyone setting their wifi sees the message for quite a distance.
“Seems like it would be safer for everyone to buy a bottle and to drink at home.”
If they did. But drinkers too many times like to drink in groups. So they will go to someone else’s home and drink to excess. At bars, they practice dram shop and under that when a person appears to have reached the point of intoxication, they are cut off. And some areas take car keys and some states or areas have free cab service for a tipsy person. Some areas allow the stretching of service with a designated driver in attendance and offer free soft drinks or coffee to the designates as an incentive.
I don’t want to be driving and run into a drunk driver. In the US in 2019 there were over 40,000 deaths from auto accidents. The leading causes are drunk driving (40%), speeding (30%), and irresponsible driving (33%). A drunk driver fills all those catagories. And that’s just the deaths. An additional 2.38 million are injured yearly. So is it safer to have the drinker overseen so they don’t go excess and get into a car?
And many states are allowing marijuana use, another intoxicant, and many have no way of determining excess for that. To me, I don’t care if they call it C-19 efforts. I want me and mine to be safe on the highways.
rwood
It is definitely a problem. I am usually home by 10PM. I work until 9PM. I heard some scary stat once about something like after midnight 1 out of 4cars going toward you the driver is DWI.
Linked and causality and two different things, unrelated. I thought lawyers were smart?
Completely disagree. Bar hopping is closely related to human mating behavior. Without sufficient bar hopping the next generation will be too small to support the current generation in our old age.
Excellent! I was considering just that rejoinder when I posted!
We need to “be fruitful and multiply”, IDK that bars really are the place for that.
Though multiplying without fruitfulness is better than not multiplying at all.
Read the Ohio Star on-line newspaper - great information. A lot on DeWiner.
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