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Jeff Wrangler:
I guess if the casinos in Las Vegas open, there will be plenty of stupid people who will flock there.
I wonder if there has been a growth of online gambling through all this? Is that how people with gambling addictions are coping?
I guess maybe people with alcohol addiction aren't having issues unless they live in a state like Pennsylvania, where liquor stores are closed and online ordering has been overwhelmed.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 24, 2020, 08:28:02 am ---I guess maybe people with alcohol addiction aren't having issues unless they live in a state like Pennsylvania, where liquor stores are closed andI th online ordering has been overwhelmed.
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I believe I read that PA is the only state where that's the case (though you'd think maybe Utah, too). It's actually dangerous for severe alcoholics to stop drinking cold turkey, at least without medical supervision, so that's a terrible decision.
I have heard the shutdowns ares exacerbating alcoholism -- both because people are upset about what's happening and because they're home with plenty of time to drink -- and more people are entering treatment centers.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 24, 2020, 09:09:34 am ---I believe I read that PA is the only state where that's the case (though you'd think maybe Utah, too). It's actually dangerous for severe alcoholics to stop drinking cold turkey, at least without medical supervision, so that's a terrible decision.
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I've heard that, too, right after the governor closed the Pennsylvania stores, but I've heard nothing more since.
--- Quote ---I have heard the shutdowns ares exacerbating alcoholism -- both because people are upset about what's happening and because they're home with plenty of time to drink -- and more people are entering treatment centers.
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That doesn't surprise me.
brianr:
Today is ANZAC day and for the first time in over 100 years there are not the ceremonies and marches in towns and cities across New Zealand and Australia.
I have just taken part in 'Stand at Dawn" as throughout both nations (well in another 2 hours in Australia) we have stood at our front doors, gates or letter boxes and listened by radio as the Last Post, Ode of Remembrance, Reveille and both National Anthems were broadcast. I have both flags flying from my gate. When possible I have been in Sydney and gone into the city with my sister on special train for the Dawn Service at 4.30am. She will be standing on her balcony at 6am Eastern Australia Time.
This year I was to miss as I should have been on a tour in Transylvania and would have felt a bit guilty at missing.
On the few times I have not been in Sydney, I have gone to the Dawn Service at 6am here in Dunedin. In 2015 I was on a bus from Paris at 1am to attend the Dawn Service at the Australian War Memorial in Villers Bretonneux not far from where my uncle, who was killed on the Somme in 1916, is buried. In 2002 I attended the Dawn service at Gallipoli, Turkey where it all began.
Sadly none of those services are possible this year. I am always most moved at singing both the anthems of my dual nationality.
Lest We Forget
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: brian on April 24, 2020, 02:38:07 pm ---... my uncle, who was killed on the Somme in 2016...
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That recently?
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