The state has been ruled by Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive orders since March, but the latest, Executive Order No. 183, plows new ground.
Previous executive orders have required everyone to stay in their homes, closed nonessential businesses, set limits on gatherings, required people in the state to wear masks even in their own homes and generally restricted activity.
Executive Order No. 183 relaxes the laws concerning alcoholic beverage sales.
By Executive Order No. 183, Cooper has made it legal for a bar, restaurant or any business that legally sells mixed drinks to sell mixed drinks to go or have them delivered.
So if you decide a martini from your favorite bartender is just what you need, you no longer have to travel to the bar, wait outside because inside service is still prohibited, place your order and stay on the establishment’s premises to drink it.
You can go to the bar and order a mixed drink to go or call and have it delivered to your door. Drinks that are delivered have to be paid for in advance, although it is legal to tip.
There is a whole list of regulations that go along with it. For example, if you decided two martinis is what you need then you have to order twice or have someone else order one for you. The limit on to go or delivery drinks is one per customer. However, the executive order notes that nothing prevents multiple people at the same location from each ordering a mixed beverage to be delivered. Of course, proof of age and all the normal restrictions on selling alcoholic beverages apply.
And while bars and restaurants now have to stop serving at 9 p.m., they can keep serving to go drinks until 2 a.m.
The drinks have to be sealed in a container that it cannot be opened without breaking the seal and the executive order makes it legal to transport such sealed containers in a vehicle.
The to go alcohol sales executive order is in effect from Dec. 21 to Jan. 31, unless like many other executive orders it is extended.
If the drink is coming to my house, who is Governor Dictator to tell me how many I get to have?
…and just when you thought Cooper couldn’t be any more stupid, he once again surpasses our expectations. What a moron.
It’s not about me not having a drink – I can go to the grocery store, or the ABC store and buy my own drinks. It’s about not being able to gather and talk to other people. This is the crux of the lockdowns – no talking to other people. Everyone stay at home, and be afraid to get near anyone. Turn on your family, friends and neighbors. Rat out anyone not wearing a mask. Call the cops on your neighbors with a lot of cars in their driveway on Christmas.
We have got to stand up against tyranny!! I’ll go where I want, when I want. If some “just doing my job” cop wants to arrest me for it, so be it, but I will not be confined to quarters against my free will.
And to all you people who think Cooper is just trying to protect us – WAKE UP!! This is cold and flu season, but nobody gets the flu anymore, nobody gets the common cold anymore. This whole COVID thing is not just political here in the US – it is geo-political, conditioning everyone for the Big Reset, in order to bring about the new world order. Look it up.
Has anyone noticed that every politician and bureaucrat in support of lockdowns and the shuttering of small businesses is still getting paid their full salary. NOT ONE politician has foregone their paycheck, yet they want to try and silence the masses with a measly $600, in a bill that has over 5000 pages of pork, foreign aid, and buddy system kickbacks.
No more face diapers!! No more lockdowns!!
Meanwhile, in reality – deaths in the US are up over 15% from last year – more than any other previous year since our last pandemic (the 1918 influenza pandemic demonstrated about 46% increase in deaths from 1917). Typically deaths rise about 20-50K a year. This year it is up about 400,000.
This isn’t tyranny, this is him trying to offer businesses a way to continue to make a little money in the circumstances when their business is counterproductive to the health and safety of people of this state. I know you don’t believe in that, so you don’t have to explain how your opinion is wiser/smarter/better/biggercocked than mine.
If you want to express your freedom to “go where you want, when you want” why aren’t you driving 130 MPH on the backroads or highways? I don’t know, maybe because you know that behavior is hazardous to yours and others health and safety?
Best line of this whole thing… “This whole COVID thing is not just political here in the US – it is geo-political, conditioning everyone for the Big Reset, in order to bring about the new world order. Look it up.” LOOK IT UP!!!!
So….when you get stopped with that Governor approved Mixed Drink in your hand as you drive around…..how is the friendly State Trooper, Sheriff’s Deputy, or Police Officer going to react when you cite the Governor’s Executive Order to him where King Roy has decreed that to be a legal approved act?
You clearly didn’t read the containers must be sealed. So if they open their sealed alcohol container they would be breaking the law and the police should probably shoot them first then ask questions.
The NC Sheriffs’ Association said this Executive Order is illegal. It contradicts state law. So, yeah, you go right ahead. Danny Rogers voted for Governor Dictator anyway.
Just don’t do it in Alamance County. They tend to actually follow laws as written over there.
Here is the General Statute that pertains.
https://law.onecle.com/north-carolina/20-motor-vehicles/20-138.7.html
This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of, Leave it to the idiot to come up with that.
It is all about CONTROL.
The above comments show what happens when you drink at home instead of ordering responsibility from a restaurant. Side effects include alternative facts, and conspiratorial thinking. Don’t contact your doctor if you experience these, as doctors are part of the NWO and utilize science.