Sverdlovsk Oblast, a province in central Russia, is considering whether to ban the unvaccinated from purchasing alcohol to prevent the spread of Covid in the region. If this was to become law, citizens of Sverdlovsk Oblast will need to provide a valid QR code showing that they have been jabbed (a system that has been put in place elsewhere in Russia) before being allowed to buy alcohol. The MailOnline has the story.
In a new move from local authorities, the nation stereotypically known to enjoy a tipple may have to prove they’ve had a shot of the vaccine before getting a shot of vodka.
Artyom Bakhterev, the Regional Minister of the Agro-Industrial Complex, announced the update through its Telegram channels.
He said: “We know about the initiative of market participants to enter QR codes for buying alcohol.
“We are ready to discuss this measure with colleagues and experts at the next meeting of the operational headquarters.”
It was originally proposed by restaurateur Yevgeny Uryupin from Yekaterinburg, a city in the oblast, on his Instagram, Vesti.ru reported.
He said that the initiative could encourage people to get vaccinated and motivate them to consume less alcohol.
Since October 18th many areas in the country imposed restrictions to deal with a growing Covid crisis through a QR code system.
In many places public venues are now only open to those who are vaccinated, have a negative coronavirus test or have recently recovered from Covid.
Only those who show a QR code proving they meet the criteria are allowed to enter.
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People, this is Russia so it should be taken with a grain of salt. My wife in Siberia has been so far able to go anywhere without showing QR code to anybody, it is simply not enforced in spite of all the pompous arrogant government declarations. As with masks and lockdowns last winter there might be some enforcement enthusiasm in the coming weeks while unintended consequences (black market, boycott of shops and diminishing profits, public resentment, pensioners beating up security guards etc.) slowly pile up and then the good ol’ Russian inertia will simply prevail.
Russia is not Europe, Russia is more like the worst parts of Mexico (think Matamoros in Tamaulipas) and Central America in terms of respecting laws. The country has the biggest grey economy in the world. Criminal gangs are stealing 1000s of tonnes from oil pipelines and operating their own unlicensed goldmines… without anyone even noticing. Illegal logging is happening on such an industrial scale that it can be seen from space. Russian police cannot even detect and prevent these crimes and they will now miraculously enforce QR codes… of vodka buyers??
Non-hackable QR codes (in a country, notorious for hackers)… certificates of having a disease… Read more »
Unvaccinated for now. Soon to be anyone who wants to buy alcohol. “You’ve exceeded your monthly allowance so we can’t serve you”. Soon to be in a Scotland near you!
People, this is Russia, think like the worst parts of Mexico or Colombia in terms of respecting laws and compliance. I would really like to see Siberian police enforcing QR codes on vodka bottles while people are stealing 1000s of tonnes of oil from pipelines and operating illegal gold mines… without anybody even noticing. I mean there is no limit what one Russian super-policeman on 50 square miles can do! The law is a joke and it will fall apart like the best achievements of Soviet socialism. Russia already has the biggest grey economy in the world, of similar size as Mexico. With such silly ideas from the government it will just grow bigger. Even if they adopt QR codes, they are completely useless without ID, and so people will queue up with their IDs and QR codes to go to the mall? How about ordering all the stuff on WIldberies (Russian version of Amazon) instead? Unhackable system? For Russian hackers? Give me a break! And imagine the incredible misfortune of being caught by police… and paying a 50 dollar bribe.
Last winter, Russia had all kinds of silly restrictions such as masks, restaurant curfews blablabla… and after a month… Read more »
Great!
Completely absurd! There’s no other words for it.
How to create a black market in alcohol in one easy step.
Somebody’s obviously told Vlad and Co that alcohol kills germs.
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Wow. Who’d have thought the Russian state could be authoritarian?
The irony is, they’ll be lagging behind “freedom loving” places like Australia. I actually thought Russia was going to be an outlier in all this nonsense. I guess not.
How did they buy Putin, I thought he had some balls?
I had lost interest in Vern, he started sounding like David Icke, but he’s making sense again Vernon Coleman’s Wednesday Review – episode one
I had an interesting email swap with a MasterCard outlet today, which shows you where the digital pass/currency is going. I received an email telling me that the financial services regulator has made 2-step verification via a mobile phone notification compulsory for all online purchases.
I emailed back informing them I don’t have a mobile phone, so does this mean I can’t use my card, because MasterCard are discriminating against people without mobile phones?
As per usual with corporate support, the script doesn’t allow for tailored responses. The reply I got was, “you can still use your card, you only need phone verification for online purchases”.
I replied, so I can’t use my card online, if I don’t have a phone or a signal?
The response was, “if you don’t have a phone, you can make your online purchase, then phone us to verify it for you”
WHAT PART OF NO PHONE CONFUSES MasterCard?
It’s the future!
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Sadly my lovely Dad died today but he taught me how to grow, dry and store tobacco and how to brew beer and make your own wine. He always insisted on being as independent as possible and keeping ones business away from prying eyes as much as possible!!!
A wise & sensible man, my condolences.
My condolences also <3
Thank you oliveTrees and anti socialist. I have a lot to be grateful to him! So glad he didn’t want his children to be reliant on anyone – it’s going to be needed in these current covid and climate madness times.
Very sad to hear.
Condolences.
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The one thing I don’t understand about all the corona bollocks, is why the Russians are playing along with it?
Maybe Putin’s a globalist puppet afterall. Won’t be the first time he was accused of it…
Could be. World politics is just one big pantomime, unless you’re a victim of one of the globalists wars.
Goodness knows where the Heil found that Sverdlovsk-specific story. A proposed law in Russia would require QR-code Covid passes across the entire country for entry into shops, cultural venues, cafes, and public transport until 1 June 2022 – with other types of place addable to the list by local administrations. Until the end of January, a negative PCR test would be sufficient. (Source: Russia Today.)
“Restaurateur asks govt to introduce restrictions to stop him selling so much alcohol and so he can make less profit”.
I have heard it all now. Maybe the reduced profit has been balanced put by a nice injection of capital from the WEF?
The mafia loved prohibition in the US.
Today, they attend the WEF and COP26.
The Clintons will be overjoyed then.
There is a method to this madness – not drinking alcohol would probably save more lives than all the corona measures taken together.
Oh, it probably would – if it were not a 100% certainty that people will simply brew and sell their own, much of which will probably cause even more damage than booze bought in a shop. I vaguely remember some place trying this before – didn’t that lead to a significant rise in organised crime or some such?
If not booze, then drugs, prescription meds, etc. People are people.
Yeah, catch-22.
”All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” Winston Churchill.
It won’t save a single life as everybody’s going to die. It would just cause people to die for different reasons.
Communists behaving like communists. Michie (Stalin’s Nanny) will be getting tyranny envy.
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It seems to be all mights and maybes. Not worth bothering with.
Yeah, still not getting the vaxx. I even predicted this – purchased a book on making your own wine a year or so ago.
South Africa did this and also banned the sale of cigarettes. The black market exploded as did the number of deaths caused by drinking illicit home-stilled alcohol.The government attempted to justify the restrictions by saying they would reduce domestic violence and therefore take the load off the health services. I am told the opposite happened. I think, but can’t be sure, that the bans have been rescinded now.
Scotland put up the price of alcohol, and the poor sods in dead end lives in the inner city swamps swapped to drugs. Massive drug problems in places like Dundee now. Law of unintended consequences.
Absolutely a classic case, as you point out, of the law of unintended consequence as a result of not doing a proper impact assessment.
No assessment needed. It was a consequence that was obvious to anyone with a brain. Entirely foreseeable.
“Impact assessment?”
Yawn.
Sorry.
Who says it was unintended?
No.
The rule of stupidity.
Same success story as US “war on drugs”.
The “war on drugs” was never meant to be won. Drugs make money, wars on drugs make even more money. CIA deals in drugs.
Nice source of unattributal funding.
Things like this are what sometimes trigger revolutions.
Russia appears to be on the verge of going full-on Mark of the Beast.
https://www.rt.com/russia/540138-qr-code-mandate-draft-law/
Why am I not surprised?
Don’t forget, this is all unplanned and coincidental that countries around the world are gradually implementing vaxxpasses and QR codes. Nobody could have foretold all of this… 😉
P.S. I’d give you an extra thumbs up if I could, for the screen name. It’s all going B5, ain’t it 😀
Should be good business for the vendors of ethylene glycol, meths, moonshine and similar products.
This is what economic subventions look like in Mother Russia.
The Russian people will just ignore the restrictions. It’s what they’ve done throughout. They have little respect for officialdom.
In Austria however…
https://www.rt.com/news/540099-austria-lockdown-for-unvaxxed/
Wasn’t it in the news a few years ago that there was a trend in Russia where they were drinking some kind of bath oil and a few people died? I don’t think this ban on the unvaccinated is going to help reduce alcohol consumption.
I think that they were also drinking antifreeze.
Ironic you linked to a Russia Today article.
RT is in general very fond of showing Russian people how bad the world outside Russia is. While they keep dying (unvaccinated) in droves in their own country.
I was talking to one of my neighbours today over the fence, he said better not come too close as he and his wife had covid which they caught at the village carnival at the weekend. Was he ill? no was he bothered? no he looked and sounded fit, well and bright as a button. Which does rather beg the question, what the hell is all this about? I guess some might say that fact that he had covid but was perfectly fit and well is an indication that the vaccines work. But they clearly only work to, possibly, protect the individual from serious disease, they clearly have no impact on transmission.
In which case there is no logical justification for any of the vaccine pass mandates. Either the powers that be are stupid and ascribing powers to the vaccines that they cannot deliver or this is all about something far worse and far more sinister than that?
I suspect he had received a positive PCR and nothing more.
The current justification is that they need to force-protect the unvaccinated because the unvaccinated clog hospitals.
The stupid b*stard obviously doesn’t know what “Covid” means.
Be fair – the vast majority haven’t a f.ing clue.
52 year old New Brunswick doctor says he won’t cry at the funerals of the unvaccinated. Gets 3rd shot. Dies in his sleep two weeks later.
https://realclimatescience.com/2021/11/doctor-tells-the-truth/
The New Brunswick heart Centre is now looking for another heartless cardiologist. God moves in mysterious ways.
Ain’t that a shame?
One less to worry about.
Instant Karma
It’s probably not to my credit, but I LOLed at that.
So did I. Marvellous.
I have absolutely NO compassion for people such as this. A doctor? In that case it is a blessing to his patients that he has gone.
A GP who has had even one jab is a risk to their patients and therefore needs to be removed.
Thick, stupid idiot.
Nuremberg 2 is taking shale daily before our eyes.
No hiding the evidence.
Ekaterinburg was where the Tsar and his family were murdered.
That sort of place.
The vax manufacturers will eventually be regarded as we regard IG Farben: active enablers of evil..
Eventually?