• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    Florence has old as balls “wine holes”, where they serve wine through specially designed holes to limit the risk of spreading diseases.

    Governments fought diseases back then just as hard or even harder than now.

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      6 months ago

      They were originally meant to avoid taxes on storefronts but later repurposed, do you have any evidence it was government policy?