Yeah, but I assume it puts you into a coma - perhaps to wake up when it is all over, the skies are blue, the birds are singing (if any are not eaten before then), everyone is nice to each other ... and @Rye83 buys a trailer.
Anything in writing on this one? This has to be about the dumbest thing I’ve heard since coming here, and that’s saying a lot.
There is nothing in writing, this is fake news and bullshit fed to locals and a lot of I would hope better informed foreigners seem to believe it also..
My local stores are not being resupplied and the one that had stock had hidden it. I only got some because I had a bag to hide it in. Something or someone has scared them into this.
According to the 711 manager in Valencia the Valencia PNP had ordered them to remove alcohol from the shelves...and there has in fact been no alcohol on the shelves for the past 2-3 days at that location. If this is due to the current pandemic or the religious holidays remains unknown, at least to me. Are there sari2x stores selling alcohol still? I have no idea but I did notice that the one near my place no longer had a bottle sitting on display. I suppose they could just be sold out though. The title of the thread and the OP make no mention of the cause of the booze being unavailable. It was a member sharing what their SO had directly told them and they presented that information here for further inquiry and conversation. Every single comment in this thread is very clearly opinions, speculation, light hearted humor or criticism about alcohol being taken off the shelves...only an idiot would confuse anything in this thread as ”news". As for having something in writing: I don't need anything in writing to know that the information is, at the very least, plausible in other locations as I have been into the store here and seen with my own two eyes that the shelves that once proudly displayed that wonderful nectar are now disgracefully packed with countless cans of Pringles and their knockoff competitors. I have recently given several warnings about accusing, or even implying, members here of spreading "fake" news. This is NOT fake news. I'm placing you in quarantine for 30 days for suggesting a crime has taken place in this thread. Anyone else throwing around those two words together had better do so with great caution, put their biases aside and have pretty compelling evidence to prove their accusation true. Maliciously spreading false and misleading news (with the intent being key) is a crime in the Philippines and people have been arrested for it. Using the term "fake news", regardless of what you think it means or how you use the phrase in your day to day (and likely very limited) vocabulary, will grab my attention the same as the words "assault", "theft", "fraud" and "defamation" does, especially if a poster here is being accused of it...because it is a crime. Remember: Just because you don't like what is being said or haven't heard or seen it for yourself does NOT make it "fake news". What happens in one Purok/Barangay/City/Municipality/Province/Country does not have to happen everywhere else for it to be true. Do not confuse opinion, criticism, speculation, satire, parody, questions or inquiries as "news"...no matter how badly Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc try to convince you otherwise.
Not all that strange that during this period (not necessarily Covid-19 related) a liquor ban is imposed: Just read that in Thailand a similar ban commenced 10 April and will last at least 10 days, i.e. during their New Year period. Whether Easter or New Year, a holiday period is for some the time to get zonked and thus break all rules in existence.....
PNP told me they believe the executive order from May 25th (or whenever) included an alcohol ban. A wise man once said to me that a lot more people here speak English than those who understand it.
the sign in robinsons mall groceries reads "liquor ban april 3 - 18". thats where the assumption that this is an official regulation in relation to the ecq (which shares the same date range) comes from.
