It’s 5 o’clock somewhere, and social drinkers are ready to wind down, or “wine” down, after a frenzied day juggling working from home and managing children or families. “It’s always cocktail hour in a crisis!”
By Ray A. Smith and Bojan Pancevski April 27, 2020 12:19 pm ET By her third week of social distancing, Amanda Marie Ramos noticed that she was finishing a bottle of wine faster than usual. “Typically if I even open a bottle on a Friday night, I make it last all the way till Sunday night, and sometimes I may not even finish it then,” said the 39-year-old married mother of two, who lives in Canandaigua, N.Y. “But lately I’ll finish a bottle that night, or in two, depending on who I’m FaceTiming.
Celebrity chef Ina Garten went viral earlier this month after posting on Instagram a two-minute video mixing her favorite Cosmopolitan in a pitcher, pouring some into a giant cocktail glass, then taking a sip—at 9:30 in the morning. Her caption reads: “It’s always cocktail hour in a crisis!” So far, the clip has been viewed more than 3 million times.
Åsa Linderborg, a Swedish author, wrote an essay in the country’s largest-circulation newspaper, Aftonbladet, about how the stress of the epidemic, compounded by anxiety about job and recession fears among her friends, drove her to start drinking at 11 a.m. Excessive drinking could lead to serious problems including mental health issues, domestic violence and accidents, said Jonathan Avery, director of addiction psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. Even social drinkers should watch that their increase doesn’t slip into a problem. “It’s so in our culture that this is how one responds to a difficult life moment, by drinking,” Dr. Avery says. “If you look at a movie, what do people do after a breakup or after losing a job? Drink.
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