Has your alcohol consumption changed during the pandemic?

[President Johnson]

Has your usual alcohol consumption changed during the pandemic or in quarantine?

Mine has somewhat gone up, despite the fact I don't go to restaurants at this point. Usually I'm just a very modest drinker, enjoying a beer or glass of wine on weekends in addition to one of them once or twice during the week. These days I'm essentially having a beer or glass of wine almost every evening. I'm limiting myself mostly to just one, but on weekends a glass of wine at lunch and a beer after dinner isn't uncommon. I've even tried more sorts of beer since Covid-19 started. We're not in actual quarantine and get daily physical exercise outside as well as meet a very limited number of family members, but work from home.

[HillGoose]

Initially went wayyyy up (ask lfromnj, dude witnessed me almost die chugging London Dry on Zoom one night) but in the past 3 or so weeks it's gone down pretty significantly.

One new "habit" that I did develop relating to alcohol during all this though is that before all this I wouldn't drink during the week then binge and party on the weekends, but now I'm at the point that I pretty much just slam a few beers every night and don't really get blackout (at least in the last few weeks)

[TDAS04]

Nope, it's still something I do just occasionally.

[Santander]

42% of professionals are alcoholics. 58% are liars.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Never had a sip of alcohol in my life and never plan to

[Meclazine for Israel]

Alcohol is for success. There is little about this pandemia which fells like success.

As a depressant, alcohol is more enjoyable when you have something to celebrate with others.

I highly recommend people never drink under the following circumstances:

(a) Before noon;
(b) After midnight;
(c) By themself;
(d) Without a celebration of something.

Alcohol is the leading cause of social violence and unwanted pregnancy.

[Orwell]

Never had a sip of alcohol in my life and never plan to

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

I haven’t drank any alcohol since February and plan to keep being completely sober until August 20.

[T'Chenka]

I used to drink 1 or 2 beers in a night twice a month, now it's 3 or 4 times

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Stayed the same overall. I'm drinking a little less wine and a little more mixed drinks (Cape Codders and gin and tonics, mostly). I have maybe one drink two or three nights a week.

[SevenEleven]

I drink 4-6 nights a week, 0-2 nights consuming more than I should. I'm a bartender and cocktail enthusiast, so I usually drink pretty frequently, but the context and distribution of consumption has changed regardless of whether quantity has.

More than I should is probably more than you should.

[Santander]

I was thinking of posting my actual drinking habits, but it's a bit embarrassing tbh. Let's just say I'm sleeping on the couch a lot.

[afleitch]

I have the odd whisky. But not wanting to drink the better bottles I've cut down

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Gone up slightly only because I went from rarely drinking to buying a couple of six packs in the last few weeks. I just bought another six pack yesterday. I blame the nice weather.

[fhtagn]

Stayed the same. I only have like one drink a month these days, usually a cider.

[Crumpets]

Stayed the same/gone down/don't drink at all. I haven't had any alcohol during quarantine, but I had probably only had two or three drinks this year prior to quarantine anyway, so that's not much of a change.

[DKrol]

Mine has gone up, but that's probably more attributable to me moving in with a roommate rather than living alone. I have a thing about drinking alone.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Good question, initially went up but now is down. If i did actually live alone, i would drink a lot of alcohol these days to counteract my depressive feelings. Alcohol abuse is also something existent in my family and i'm prone to it and to addictions. But fine, i think my alcohol usage is right now healthy, and always when i started to realize it became a problem, i stopped with it and went over to soda drinks / energy drinks, which is still bad, esp. since i emotionally drink and drink like 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 litres a day.

What did change heavily was my smoking behavior. I smoke a lot more now than I used to. Not sure why.

[RINO Tom]

March 20th to March 27th: We were supposed to be in Italy, so we just spent a week at my parents' to visit them ... my drinking this week was for sure up a lot.

March 27 to Mid-April: Down from that first week but up over pre-Quarantine.  It's hard to gauge, as we used to love going out for happy hour drinks and dinner.  I think overall, though, total consumption was up a bit.

Mid-April to Mid-May: Probably actually lower, considering how often we liked to go out.

Mid-May to Now: Right back up ... staring out my apartment windows (which cover most of our walls) at beautiful weather gets me all depressed, so hello booze!

[Mr. Reactionary]

Not really. I don't drink alone so Ive only been drinking on some weekends at social gatherings. I found a new adderall source for like the first time in years though so my weekend adderall consumption is dramatically up.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I don't drink at all, so it's remained constant.

[nclib]

Very rarely consume alcohol, and haven't had any during this pandemic.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Option 4

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

I'm mostly a social drinker and I rarely drink when I'm alone

I have some beers at home, but they're reserved for a meeting with friends that was scheduled before the lockdown, and I'm not much of a beer drinker TBH

The harder drinks are in my parent's apartment, which is only 5 blocks away but I haven't yet brought them here as it's not particularly comfortable to carry glass bottles on a backpack and I don't want to be caught by the police 9r anyone else doing so

I've only had a couple of beer cans, a can of rosé sparkling wine and some sh**t caipirinha with  yellow lemons and an excessive amount of vodka at my parents' place

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

it's gone up - for a while I was drinking a glass or two of wine everyday before I cut down for calorie reasons more than anything else - but I've stopped binge drinking as much as I once did for obvious reasons. Less fun to get completely wasted in a Zoom call lol.