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[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dislike this the solution should never be "legalistic" in scenarios like this.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Just like with COVID, if people don't have the good sense to regulate their own behaviors, when it affects the general population, then the state should intervene. During the height of COVID people with serious conditions were turned away from ~~historians~~ hospitals because they were full of infected people that weren't vaccinated. That, in turn, drove occupancy limits and mask mandates.

Edit: autocorrect

[–] Damage@feddit.it 12 points 1 day ago

During the height of COVID people with serious conditions were turned away from historians because they were full of infected people that weren’t vaccinated.

But what if someone needed to know the details of the first Punic war?

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not the same thing at all drinking and suffering heat issues doesn't infect others with heat stroke don't police stuff like this public education.

Contagious or not, their personal behaviors are clogging up hospitals. Public education should be a component but they're already in the middle of a health crisis. Education campaigns take time to create and even more time to fully disseminate throughout the population.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

If the hospitals are jammed because 1 million people have heat stroke it starts to affect others.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

At least this isn't contagious

[–] Brummbaer@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You can still buy alcohol and drink it at home. I mean you can order as much alcohol as you like online, delivered to you the same day.

It totally makes sense to restrict alcohol in public during a heatwave.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think criminal solutions solve anything ever. Do public education on the dangers but don't police it.

[–] Brummbaer@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It solves the problem of hospitals being overwhelmed and people dying because of it.