LINCOLN- At the beginning of the pandemic, states across the country began to ease up alcohol related regulations. Selling to-go cocktails along with to-go orders became a way for restaurants to stay afloat. Now, people are starting a discussion about whether alcohol regulations really need to go back to how they used to be.

The pandemic forced everything to move online faster than expected with everyone becoming more comfortable with the new normal. Telehealth boomed at the beginning of the pandemic, especially helping with the increase in mental health challenges during lockdown. So, many state agencies are starting to give funding to Medicaid to continue these services online. The worry with this is that doctors with poor records could fly under the radar and provide services to patients that they should not be allowed to see.

Also an intense focus of those looking to return to normal are opponents to the widely adopted to-go cocktails, which they say could promote underage drinking and drunk driving. States however are moving to safely adopt some of the changes found in the pandemic through executive order and legislative actions permanently.

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