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Worse in what ways? I think it's a pretty neat feature of the design. If you just need some, you don't get a lot, and you don't get to buy a lot "just in case".

Worse in what ways? I think it's a pretty neat feature of the design. If you just need some, you don't get a lot, and you don't get to buy a lot "just in case". If you truly need a lot, you can go though the hassle of going to multiple stores. It's essentially just raising a barrier for (under normal circumstances) undesirable behavior.

oakwhiz 1y ago
I think being able to buy a lot of medicine just in case is an amazing feature that makes me less dependent on the supply chain.
- beAbU 1y ago
  You can buy you entire year's supply of panadol by simply shop-hopping through the main street. What's the problem?
  - oakwhiz 1y ago
    To me it's really the principle of having lots of ridiculous rules that amount to a pile of little inconveniences all over every facet of modern life. It's not a logical reason to have a problem with it, but I would prefer to see a more logical set of rules that don't seem to be so ridiculous and maze like when you are doing something that is just slightly out of the norm.
dspillett 1y ago
> Worse in what ways? It doesn't do what it is sold as doing¹ while causing a bit of faf. The restriction is one of those put in place because someone somewhere want to be seen to be doing something. > for (under normal circumstances) undesirable behavior. Outside of a supply problem situation, which we don't have for that sort of thing and different at the time the change came in, why is it so undesirable? -------- [1] Reducing accidental overdose rates², reducing people using out-dated-so-possibly-ineffective medicines, etc. [2] Accidental overdose rates have fallen, but they have in many places without those restrictions, so I suspect that is a coincidence and probably more due to greater awareness³ of there being paracetamol or aspirin in other products and therefore the need to be careful what you take in combination. [3] Due to better labelling?

oakwhiz 1y ago

I think being able to buy a lot of medicine just in case is an amazing feature that makes me less dependent on the supply chain.

beAbU 1y ago
You can buy you entire year's supply of panadol by simply shop-hopping through the main street. What's the problem?
- oakwhiz 1y ago
  To me it's really the principle of having lots of ridiculous rules that amount to a pile of little inconveniences all over every facet of modern life. It's not a logical reason to have a problem with it, but I would prefer to see a more logical set of rules that don't seem to be so ridiculous and maze like when you are doing something that is just slightly out of the norm.

dspillett 1y ago

> Worse in what ways? It doesn't do what it is sold as doing¹ while causing a bit of faf. The restriction is one of those put in place because someone somewhere want to be seen to be doing something. > for (under normal circumstances) undesirable behavior. Outside of a supply problem situation, which we don't have for that sort of thing and different at the time the change came in, why is it so undesirable? -------- [1] Reducing accidental overdose rates², reducing people using out-dated-so-possibly-ineffective medicines, etc. [2] Accidental overdose rates have fallen, but they have in many places without those restrictions, so I suspect that is a coincidence and probably more due to greater awareness³ of there being paracetamol or aspirin in other products and therefore the need to be careful what you take in combination. [3] Due to better labelling?