Every public hospital I ever worked at meant I would go in on a Monday morning to a room full of men wearing Friday night’s clothes, covered in blood with chest drains.

The story is the same every time:

We were drinking. I had a fight with my friend and then he stabbed me.

I know we are buying alcohol and cigarettes illegally.

I KNOW there are financial losses.
I Know people are consuming unregulated substances.

But I also know our trauma units nationally have NEVER coped with payday weekend because of alcohol related violence.

Now you want to,during a global pandemic, allow the sale of alcohol nationally while people are depressed from job losses, while people have more time to honestly fuck around and you Don’t think it won’t significantly impact your ability to get a ventilator when covid gets YOU?