Norway Bans Serving of Alcohol in Bid to Halt Omicron Outbreak

Reuters ^ | Monday, 13 December 2021

[nickcarraway]

Norway will ban the serving of alcohol in bars and restaurants, impose stricter rules in schools and speed up vaccination as part of new efforts to curb the outbreak of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the government said on Monday.

[cgbg]

The vaxxes are a killer solution.

:-(

[facedown]

They’ve gone from stupid to outright moronic.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Instead of Al Capone they will have a Lars Capone.

[BBQToadRibs2]

Their Viking for-fathers are spinning in their graves right now.

[blackdog]

How interesting. We are being probed continuously.

[skeeter]

Oh heyal no.

[Magnum44]

And what do the vikings have to say about that?

[Flick Lives]

Norway will ban the serving of alcohol in bars and restaurants, impose stricter rules in schools and speed up vaccination as part of new efforts to curb the outbreak of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the government said on Monday.

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Won’t hurt the virus, but it will help suck the last remnants of joy out of life.

[oldasrocks]

I thought alcohol killed germs???? I’d like them to try to ban beer in Germany.

[Tallguy]

A Norwegian winter without alcohol?

[llevrok]

Oooof da!

[llevrok]

One of my favorite series!!

[Candor7]

Norway will ban the serving of alcohol in bars and restaurants>>>>>>>>>>>>

In Norway? Buahahahahahahahahaha!

Fat Chance.

The action will simply shift to the nearest fjord with a docked large fishing boat.

[WMarshal]

These “progressives” are the same breed of a-holes that gave us Prohibition and organized crime a century ago. This time they need a beat-down.

[mylife]

I have been using gin and tonic to stave off the evil virus!!

[ThunderSleeps]

But I thought Omicron was imparting natural immunity with only relatively mild symptoms? Doesn't sound like something we want to stop or curb.

Also, I hear alcohol is a natural antiseptic. I believe we should be encouraging it's use! ;-)

[packagingguy]

Alcohol stopped killing germs this week just like natural immunity ceased to function in March of 2020. Follow the science. /s

[SamAdams76]

This will kill the restaurants as much of their margin is achieved through the sales of alcoholic beverages.

They will have to raise the price of their food dishes and so the teetotalers will have to pay more. Plus a lot of drinkers will stay home entirely and order out.

[mylife]

I have a friend from Finland, I said what do you do on all those cold dark days?

She said “we drink and ****”