A bar in Myrtle Beach, S.C., is shown before the pandemic. The governor's curfew on alcohol sales affects bars but not retailers.Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
This week, South Carolina is averaging 1,570 new cases of the virus per day. That's more than twice the rate of new casesMcMaster's order will go into effect on Saturday night.
The order will affect about 8,000 restaurants and bars in the state permitted to sell alcohol on-site. It does not apply to grocery stores, liquor stores or any retail business.
Oh wow 22% of cases, young people are -definitely- who we should be targeting our ire at 😒
What time do the bars open? 🤔
WTF is that going to accomplish
TheCompanyMan So corona starts at 11pm?
November will cure the virus especially if Dementia Joe wins, we’ll never hear about it again.
Damn, he's really putting his foot down! stupidrepublicans
Did anyone tell the virus? What a dope
Quarantine Gen Y( millenials) and Gen Z.
So 11pm. Because covid like freaks ,only come out at night.
Goddamn, the headlines get stupider by the minute
😂😂😂
Good for them
RN_Shark_dt_ind This will not stop the virus , and the 20 year old will just drink faster. I lived in S/C for 3 years and have family their. Sorry to say this is a very backwards state.
SC did nothing in the beginning to stop the spread of Covid 19. Their Governor is nothing but a Trump sycophant!!! You reep what you sow. Hey, where is Lindsey He seem to be MIA!!!
Is there research that COVID-19 becomes more virulent on the 11-7 night shift?
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This is absolutely ridiculous, people will just go to the bars earlier. A crowded bar at 10 pm is the same as a crowded bar at midnight.
Well now I’ll just have to day drink
TStaples66
Hurry up and get home before that virus finds out you’re here.
As if that will help! Close them indefinitely!
Better be careful about Drinking alcohol in February in the 1920. The government poisoned the Alcohol Because they were getting paid Taxes. Killed over 10.000 people They got my Grandfather. Was taught years ago never in any circumstances Trust the Government.
TStaples66 What good is that going to do?
Wait, I thought alcohol kills covid
Wow, maybe he shouldn't have opened them in the first place. What a joke about the 11 pm curfew. Didn't know Covid-19 had specific hours it went to work infecting people.
Maybe just close the bars completely lol
Such leadership.
Ah yes, 11pm! bars closed now, that'll stop the corona virus
I didn’t realize Coronavirus only becomes contagious after 10:59 pm.
Brilliant Governor. He just knows the virus is transmitted from 11pm. Smart guy
Nothing good can possibly be happening anyway in a bar after 11pm. Go home.
It's like having a peeing zone in a public pool. (A. Fauci)
He doesn’t order a mask mandate but prohibits alcohol sales after 11 pm...As someone who lives in Summerville, SC. We are appalled.
What exactly will this do?!! Wtf
Wow. South Carolina finally gettin' half serious.
But what about the vampires
The bars should be shut down, period. No inside dining at restaurants. Take out only until this thing is under control!
Nothing bad happens before midnight
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Oh, that’ll do the trick.
Trump & GOP are responsible for not preparing in November, 2019 when he warned Israel
11 pm? I would move it to 9pm. Catch the early birds as well.
This says the covid19 fatality rate for those 70 y/o is similar to the flu...so hopefully we will get more data to validate this
Because you can't catch COVID at 9:37!!?!
Politican are the most dummies mother fvcker out here just closed the DAME! Bars until the end of the year.
Like 11pm will control COVID__19 in South Carolina. How stupid 😏
Kids won't be able to go to school safely because bar lives matter. Great work.
texasaunt So he is discriminating based on age. Got it.
God I love it so much when adults fuck up and blame the next generation for the shit they do
When you realize South Carolina leaders have no common sense
Shut down your bars.
djmonijj Talk about too little, too late
What the hell is with this “COVID Curfew” Did they sit down with the disease and agree on the hours it would spread or something? 🙄
Talk about a half-*ssed approach to reduced COVIDS
Stop at 11 pm. Covid-19 is not a fucking Gizmo. It does not come with a set of instructions.
Cool because the coronavirus is known to sit outside bars & restaurants watching the clock. At 11:00, it’s like “here we go!” science
So...88% are NOT the group being targeted? Foolish, ignorant. 22% of your people will gain immunity. Everyone else is in danger, because. Of. You.
That's the dumbest thing I've heard all day. Just shut the damn bars and restaurants, it's spread heaven.
That will really help. I’m sure.
This seems wholly insufficient!!
I have a better idea. Close the bars for 2 weeks.
But until 11 pm is fine. K.
Coronavirus knows nothing good happens after 11PM 🤬🤬
This country couldn’t be stupider. Shut down the bars.
Business first. Human life second.
Stupid rule, not enough. I lived in SC for a decade, ass backwards state.
Oh no that’ll stop it for sure 😂👍
Cause covid only infects after 11pm and young peopleonly go out after 11pm 🤦🏻♀️
In other words....biz as usual young ppl suck and ruin everything w their immaturity
What a wonderful idea as if the virus is active only after 11pm.
this is just a challenge for young people to 'get it in' quicker. promotes efficiency if you ask me. no more hanging out and waiting to 2 am.
That’s a joke right? SCFederal
🤦🏻♂️
That oughta do it.
Do you have to pass a stupid test to be governor of SC?
This will achieve little.
Wow! Yup that should do it! No more spread after 11. Got it!
“COVID, last call 10:50 PM!!!”
Haaaa 11pm He's not taking this seriously. Completely clueless
Really getting tough - not!
SC governor used Cinderella analytics. That sounds like data. Progress!
I forgot. Corona only comes out to play after 11 🙄
So is COVID like a Gremlin or something? Only turns evil in the presence of alcohol after 11p.
Problem: Solved.
Now you can only catch Covid19 until 11pm at the bar. No midnight Covid for you.
Because the virus is nocturnal.
Like deck chairs on the Titanic
I thought Trump was a Wartime President ~ such an embarrassment . We are loosing
Why not just close the bars? 11 pm does nothing 🤦🏼♀️
Corona only comes out at night
That oughta do it.
Because as we all know, the virus comes out at night
So be sure to get your covid before 11 pm.
Phew... cuz you can’t catch Covid if you aren’t drinking after 11...
I- was never an asshole before 11pm . I am also 7’13”.
BuT yOunG pEoPle aRenT dYinG
Does absolutely nothing. Most will have spread the virus much earlier trying to hook up for later.
Half measures to stop COVID will do nothing. Americans deserve COVID. They are unwilling to do the hard work to get it under control. Forget about opening schools in the fall.
So, did the Governor just watch Gremlins?
GovLarryHogan talking to my former bartender husband (we’re Baltimoreans), we feel like 9 or 10pm for all alcohol sales (even in stores), would cut down on a lot in that younger age range. Let us know how we can help the spread. We want our streets safe for our 2yo son.
Going back to colleges will stop all the artying
This really needs to stop. Let this disease run its natural course and let our immune systems deal with it and we'll soon have herd immunity.
More incredible ignorance!!! WTF goid is this going to do?!?
Smart move Gov.
Right, rather than shutting bars down. Good move. SMH
😂😂😂😂😂. Don’t go overboard, now!
Nothin good happens after 11pm
This is hilarious and horrifying. I guess The Rona starts infecting between 11 and 12?
Because everyone knows the virus only comes out at 11:01 pm
Yeah cause the virus will wait until 11pm to strike.
Virus goes to bed by 11?
At least the virus isn't active or contagious before 11:00 p.m.
Congratulations on doing the absolute minimum to slow the pandemic in SC.
After all it's a well-known fact that viruses only come out after midnight.
Because Corona only comes out after 11pm? Asking for a friend.
Good luck South Carolina
Raise the drinking age to 85
As a retired bartender I know young people aren't the only ones who drink.
Weak.
Bars are STILL OPEN?
I don’t think the virus is Cinderella.
So covid clocks in at 11:01?
Sure, it's all fun and games until your carriage turns into a pumpkin. 🤦♀️ does the governor really think that it's how late people stay out and not the fact people are driving in close quarters? Honestly, I just can't with the stupid anymore!
Because the virus can tell time?
because covid can't spread before 11pm?
Does COVID turn into a pumpkin at midnight?
nobody at the bar: its 10:55, we gotta go before covid arrives
Close the bars!
South Carolina treating the corona virus like an STD. Can you only catch it after midnight?
I guess the virus comes out at night now?
Weak
this virus is going to stalk us
Good to see South Carolina's governor has a handle on this.
Half measures and minutes short.
Do they even know they have the virus?
Because COVID cannot be transmitted before 11PM?
To be clear, the bars won’t close at 11:00. People can remain in the building.
Speaking from experience, you can't keep people from getting drunk and doing stupid things that put their lives and the lives of others at risk by closing bars at 11. They just get hammered before 11. Experience of a friend, of course.
Oh yeah well that’ll solve everything.
Because they can't get coronavirus after 11pm?
Mmm, yes. COVID doesn't begin its reign if terror until after midnight.
Good to know that the virus gets active precisely at 11:01 pm.
Lotsa luck.
This is smart because the virus only works the graveyard shift
Perf heard immunity.
I can’t even. 🤦♀️
This will certainly prevent Coronavirus gremlins.
Yes, the virus is only transmitted after 11 pm EST.
They should close all TJ Maxx and Marshalls to target the other 78%.
What an f*cking sham, too little too late. Shame!
So 'young people' get their preflight on and tgen crowd even tighter into a friend's place.. South Carolina got a dumbass governor.
1/100th of a good idea
Covid is nocturnal.
Wow. What a hard line. Watch out Covid. They’re on to you.
What about the other 78% 🙄
Oh that will solve the problem
I hear the corona virus seldom infects anyone in crowded bars prior to 11 PM.
So, now they'll just get even more drunk by an earlier hour and then start getting into cars or onto public transportation?
Great idea if the coronavirus is a werewolf.
What a pointless half-measure.
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