Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I only drink on weekends and never while watching my son. I’ll go months without drinking, and it really enhances my enjoyment of alcohol when I do partake. ai like to tie it to events like sports or concerts. I enjoy being a lightweight now. Much more bang for my buck when two or three drinks makes me buzzed rather than my 20’s when it took so much more.

 

Omicron’s subvariant found in 25% of cases tested at UW virology lab

 

I'm not playing anything. The increase in drinking deaths is clearly correlated to COVID; you might even call it a casualty. It happened to be something I've personally seen with some friends and I posted it.

 

While I agree that isolation is terrible, drinking is discretionary. One can choose not to do it. One can choose not to smoke or eat fried foods or watch porn, too.

Bad habits and personal choice is a pretty spongy area in which to seek out cause-and-effect.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/03/23/airlines-letter-mask-mandate/

Key graf to me:

 

I can't get on there, are the airlines still in favor of a mask mandate?

 

That’s not how addiction works.

And, make no mistake, the increase in addiction is what is driving all of this.

 

Here is one way to look at it...Everyone has habits they would like to break, I assume you do too. Don't have to say what they are, but my question is, why don't you break them? Just stop those bad habits? And further, why aren't you in control of every personal aspect of your life? (maybe you are, in that case, help us, lol)

 

In short, they are not.

 

That's too bad, I cant think of a better place to use them. Hopefully, many will still wear them on a plane.

 

I think many will. I think the airlines are sick of having to be mask police, more than anything. I'd probably still wear mine on a plane, but I'm not sure they need to be constantly worn throughout the airport, except for in very crowded areas.

When I was waiting for my flight to London a few weeks ago, I was essentially sitting in a deserted terminal. Did not feel the need to mask there. In the security line? Sure.

 

Understood.

But a serial blackout drunk is a serial blackout drunk, pandemic or not.

So I guess the question is along the lines of: Is there an average, middle-of-the-bell-curve alcoholic for whom the pandemic made things so much worse they drank themselves to death, when, absent the lockdowns, they would not have done so?