Dallas County, when they imposed "shelter in place", allowed take-out from liquor stores. Probably a good idea, considering the concern you identified.
It's not that hard to make a drinkable wine. The key is to make everything very clean, and keep it clean until bottling.
My first degree was in bacteriology. We once made mead. Disgusting, but safe and effective.
Ah, so you know about making beer, wine and even mead. My grandfather must have known how to do it right. He made his own wine during Prohibition, and no one got sick from what he made that I heard of. Certainly though people did get sick and even die during Prohibition from bootleg alcohol.
It is easy to make; and the thing is lots of people learn how to make it in prison. I can see it now, ex-cons spotting the chance to make some quick bucks by brewing up some "hooch" for sale as well as for themselves.
I was stunned when I read that hundreds of gallons of homemade wine was found in a California prison just before the last Super Bowl -- not stunned that people were making it but by the volume.
No Super Bowl party for inmates after jailhouse wine confiscated
Like many in the Bay Area, the inmates at the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County were looking forward to watching Super Bowl 2020. But the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department put the kibosh on a party they were planning.
Hundreds of gallons of jailhouse wine were confiscated Saturday at the Santa Rita Jail. The concoction of fruit, juices, sugar and yeast — known as pruno — was stored in plastic bags and stashed inside toilets and garbage bags throughout the jail, Alameda County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ray Kelly said.
The department proudly displayed its findings Sunday in an Instagram post, with a photo of deputies standing behind dozens of bags filled with supplies for the homemade hooch.
I've heard manufacturers or whisky switched some of their production over to hand sanitizer. It's basically just 90 or 100 proof whisky (or any other liquor) mixed with some glycerin and maybe a little hydrogen peroxide. Some are donating what they make to health care providers. If they can't make it themselves, they give it to someone who can mix it properly and then bottle it.
There was news about bootleg booze from Iran. The death toll from the virus is bad enough; but a rumor spread that drinking alcohol worked to stave off the virus. Of course, it's against the law for Muslims there; but that didn't stop people from brewing it, selling it and drinking it.
March 10, 2020
Bootleg alcohol death toll rises to 44 in virus-hit Iran
The death toll from alcohol poisoning in Iran rose to 44 Tuesday, state news agency IRNA reported, over misguided efforts to ward off the new coronavirus by drinking bootleg alcohol.
The outbreak of the virus in the Islamic republic is one of the deadliest outside of China, where the disease originated.
The highest poisoning toll struck in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, where it grew by 16 to reach 36 on Tuesday, the agency said.
They had "drank bootleg alcohol over rumors that it would be effective in treating coronavirus and were poisoned", it added.
The poisoning toll in Khuzestan is higher than its 18 direct deaths from coronavirus, according to IRNA.
Seven more people have died from bootleg alcohol in the northern region of Alborz and one in Kermanshah, western Iran.
Yes, please do trust God on this matter, for all we know, those 102 "confirmed" cases could be false positives. Testing for so called "viruses" is not an exact science, not even close. In other words, the media is lying through their teeth and they know it, being the typical sensationalist bull skit con artists that they are, sick of it.
