Saturday, August 22, 2020

The Bo$ton Globe's $lurred $peech

It's noticeable after the music has stopped:

"New report recommends men reduce alcohol consumption to 1 drink a day" by Caroline Enos Globe Correspondent, August 19, 2020

You might want to hold off on that second drink. A new report recommends that men should limit their alcohol consumption to one libation a day.

The report from a government advisory committee, published in July, examines current nutritional science and proposes changes that the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services could make to the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans, a document that gives Americans advice on healthy eating and drinking habits.

With bars banished to the ash heap of history in favor of forever lockdowns the campaign loot is no longer pouring in, and this is coming from the same government that wants to warp speed inoculations of toxic poisons into your bodies.

The report suggested that officials change the current recommended alcohol limit for men from two drinks a day to one — the same limit it recommends for women.

“The current guidance for men, two drinks, is not terrible,” said Timothy Naimi, a professor at Boston University, “but it’s clear that most of the time when men drink alcohol, if they can limit it to one drink a day, they would be better off health-wise than at two.”

One is too many and a hundred isn't enough! 

Now all drinkers are diseased, and why does the government booze smell like communi$m?

Naimi, who is also a doctor and alcohol epidemiologist at Boston Medical Center, is a member of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee — the body of nearly two dozen scientists from around the country who wrote the report.

The committee reported that men who consume up to one drink a day have a lower risk of dying from alcohol-related causes than those who drink more.

Given the hell on this Earth they are constructing, BOTTOMS UP!

About 100,000 people die from alcohol consumption in the United States each year, according to the report. Drinking also causes between 3.5 to 5.5 percent of cancer deaths in the country and can lead to a number of chronic illnesses, including liver disease, pancreatitis, gastritis, and coronary heart disease.

Why have we not been locked down sooner, and why wasn't alcohol prohibited from the very beginning!

Killed far more than COVID!

The web Globe spilled this out of the print:

Some Americans have begun drinking more during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a Morning Consult poll, 16 percent of 2,200 adults surveyed said they were drinking more now than before the pandemic hit the United States. “There are a number of indicators that alcohol consumption has gone up, but I think the thing to focus on is the excessive alcohol consumption that occurred before the pandemic,” Naimi said. “This is not new.”

Is he drunk?!

The reason this is being brought up now is the domestic violence issue that the Globe is willfully ignoring as they walk the streets of New York City where everything is normal even if ‘‘you’ve never seen Fifth Avenue so open and the vast majority of domestic violence calls resulted in no arrests because it was just an argument.’’ 

One Australian study cited in the report found that men who drank about two drinks a day on average had a 2.5 to 5 percent increase in alcohol-related deaths compared to those who consumed only one drink per day. “Changing the daily recommended limit would result in a modest but meaningful reduction in the risk of [alcohol-related] deaths among men,” Naimi said.

Australians aren't going anywhere these days as they sober up to the tyranny after turning in all their guns.

Women have a higher risk of dying from or developing health issues from alcohol consumption than men, researchers said, but the committee’s recommendation for a single-drink limit per day for women hasn’t changed.

It's a well-known fact that most women can't hold their liquor.

“For any fixed amount of alcohol, women are slightly more at risk than men mainly because they’re smaller, but [the risk] is not that different at lower levels of consumption,” Naimi said. “If you see people drinking three, four, five, six drinks a day and more, then that difference between men and women splays out more.”

Binge drinking, or having five drinks on one occasion for men and four for women, accounts for about 88,000 deaths each year, according to the report.

The report said binge drinking, like drinking in general, has been on the rise in the United States. Of the individuals who consumed alcohol in the past month, about 40 percent binge-drink — some often multiple times a month. Those who binge-drink also have a higher risk of developing or dying from heart problems, researchers said.

“Overall, alcohol is an unhealthy substance,” the report said. “Alcohol can be consumed at low levels with relatively low risk, and is consumed by US adults for a variety of reasons; however in terms of health, among those who consume alcohol, drinking less is better for health than drinking more.”

I believe the French and Italians would get into a drunken brawl over that remark.

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The good thing is you will never suffer from a hangover again and drunk driving will be a thing of the past since Drizly will deliver the booze to your door:

"Local alcohol delivery platform Drizly announced on Thursday that it has raised $50 million in a series C funding round led by Avenir, a New York-based investment firm. The company, which currently operates in 235 markets across North America, has seen its sales surge 350 percent over the past year, and said it has doubled its retail partnerships since January 1 to create a network of 3,300 liquor stores. The booze business has been a lucrative one during the pandemic, as off-premise alcohol sales overall saw a 21 percent spike in sales during the first few weeks of the pandemic, according to Nielsen. The research firm also reported that e-commerce booze sales were particularly strong during the shelter-in-place period, up 234 percent overall, and are now the fastest-growing segment of consumer packaged goods. Drizly, which is the largest alcohol e-commerce delivery platform in North America, says the funding will help expand its reach further, and also help support the growth of Lantern, its marijuana delivery service which launched in Massachusetts and Michigan in March. The company said it expects 20 percent of off-premise alcohol purchases take place online within the next five years, as compared to less than 2 percent in early 2020."

It's hard to form a resistance to tyranny when you are stinking drunk (why do you think the Soviet Union sold cheap vodka?).

Btw, the drinks are on him:

"A former Bank of America manager has been charged with embezzling $1.5 million from a client company and using some of the money to fund a lavish lifestyle, including a luxury vehicle, prosecutors said Thursday. Waqas Ali, 31, of Abington, was charged with wire fraud and money laundering. Ali was the bank’s client relationship manager for the victim company, according to federal prosecutors in Boston. Ali allegedly opened a checking account in the name of the company without its knowledge or authorization, and between September 2016 and July 2017, fraudulently transferred more than $1.5 million from the victim company’s accounts to a fraudulent account, prosecutors said. He then used more than $600,000 of the money to pay for luxury items, including a $63,000 Porsche SUV and retail items at Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdales, Christian Louboutin, and Tag Heuer. He also used some money to pay off personal credit cards, authorities said. The victim company was not disclosed. Bank of America fired him in September 2018. An e-mail seeking comment was left with his federal public defender."

Shouldn't the bank be paying for his defen$e lawyer, not taxpayers?

Believe it or not, his sentence was house arrest:

"Airbnb is banning house parties worldwide as it tries to clean up its reputation and comply with coronavirus-related limits on gatherings. The San Francisco home sharing company will limit occupancy in its rental homes to 16 people. It may offer exceptions for boutique hotels or other event venues. Airbnb said it may pursue legal action against guests and hosts who violate the ban. Last week, for the first time, Airbnb took legal action against a guest who held an unauthorized party in Sacramento County, Calif. Airbnb has always prohibited unauthorized parties, and the company said nearly 75 percent of its listings explicitly ban parties, but after a deadly shooting at a California Airbnb rental last Halloween, the company has taken multiple steps to crack down on parties. Five people were killed in the shooting, which happened during an unauthorized party. In July, Airbnb banned US and Canadian guests under age 25 with fewer than three positive reviews from booking entire homes close to where they live. It expanded that policy to the United Kingdom, Spain, and France last week. Airbnb said it also plans to expand a hotline for neighbors to report unauthorized parties."

They will cut off your power and utilities in California, which is fine since the beer goggles will no longer be needed in the dark of the night.