Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Sweden has proposed banning alcohol sales after 10pm, with an anticipation that places with an alcohol license shut down at 10:30pm.
If the proposal becomes law, it will have an impact and increase compliance with measures against the virus’s spread. Then it would be a law and not some sort of toothless recommendation.
I'm sceptical. This will just push people from relatively controlled enviroment (restaurants, bars) to partying at home with no oversight whatsoever. Or alternatively, as we seen in other countries, people will simply start drinking earlier.
I believe that every new restriction leads to a lower compliance, as there's only so much people can take (and also if some meassures don't make a lot of sense, authority that issues them can rapidly lose the public trust). Therefore, new restrictions should only be introduced if their benefits outweight this and I don't think that's the case here. People who want to socialise despite Covid will continue to do so, but now they're gonna do it "underground", in private, where no rules apply. Instead of trying to get people on their side, government's trying to fight them and I'm afraid it will backfire.