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Mr.Bill

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5. Well, I just think they are trying to keep small businesses

Reply to Midnight Writer (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 22, 2020, 07:14 PM

Nov 2020

open to some extent, so they don't go out of business. Here they have bent the Alcohol serving rules and are letting bars use outdoor areas. They are even letting restaurants with liquor licenses to sell to-go drinks with their carry-out dinners. But the fact is, the later it gets, the drunker people get and are that much more likely to let their guard down and get careless. That's what I think anyway.

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California enacts nighttime curfew as COVID-19 cases spike [View all] sandensea Nov 2020 OP

Serious question. What is the point of a night time curfew? Midnight Writer Nov 2020 #1

Good point. sandensea Nov 2020 #2

One word: Mr.Bill Nov 2020 #3

Wouldn't it be simpler, then, to close and police the bars then enforcing a general curfew? Midnight Writer Nov 2020 #4

Well, I just think they are trying to keep small businesses Mr.Bill Nov 2020 #5

Sheriff's Responses nwliberalkiwi Nov 2020 #6