This may be the death of Bud Light… Merged with Alcohol Czar

This might be the dumbest thread ever posted to Too Hot, and that is saying a lot. Guidelines? LOL.

 

"limit"

lol. Fox News

 

It's a recommendation. Feel free to ignore it.

 

Shit, next they'll recommend we don't smoke cigarettes or look at solar eclipses with our naked eye.

 

For breakfast.

 

Or eat horse paste and fish gill ick remover.

The HORROR.

 

Alcohol is the number one substance used and abused in this country, responsible for more deaths than even opioids. But because it's legal, I guess we shouldn't have anyone in charge of reviewing whether national policies and guidance are effectively mitigating its negative societal impacts.

I just really don't understand how a lawyer makes such flimsy arguments...

 

I think our culture embraces and celebrates alcohol consumption in a way that understates its health and social costs. The notion that moderate alcohol consumption is healthy or even beneficial seems dubious at best. The more I've read suggests to me that most of that is BS being pushed by industry. I'm fine with some push back on that narrative - even though I'm considered a heavy drinker (aka "job creator").

Personally, I'm far more concerned about the fact that we arrest and incarcerate people for drugs that I think are less dangerous and harmful than alcohol. Guidelines and education are a much better approach than prohibition.

 

NEVER.SURRENDER!

 

I will make a recommendation to the government.
Stop wasting our tax dollars.
Oh and I suggest 3 beers daily minimum.

 

You mean like this guy?

 

I'm not sure guidelines alone make any difference, but we already have them. If we're going to have them, they should at least reflect the best medical and scientific data available. Or we ought to just not have them at all. In terms of money, we already spend lots of it addressing the externalities associated with the use of alcohol, to include domestic violence, addiction, impaired driving, negative health impacts, drunken fights, or whatever.

For the record, I'm way over your suggested daily minimum.

 

My god, Biden is going to limit us to two beers a week!!!

 

Then they came for the stoves

 

Is Joe Biden banning burgers? Fox News and GOP politicians fuel a false narrative - Poynter

 

This is actually good news for Bud Light and beer producers in general. Right-wingers, to own the libs, are going to start drinking a lot more beer now.

 

You can pry my beers from my shaking, sober hands.