Alcohol sales have soared as people use drinking to relax during the Covid-19 crisis, and experts are raising concerns
Whatever day you read this – at whatever hour – you can bet that someone in the Facebook group Quarantined Beer Chugs is shotgunning a beer or swigging a bottle.
They drink to mark the end of long, isolated days. They toast to getting face masks and unemployment benefits. At least one of the group’s 329,000 members has even chugged to celebrate her recovery from Covid-19: “Tired of being couped [sic] up!” she captioned. “Here is my first post-Covid shotgun!!!!!”
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