The data shows Americans are drinking more. A lot more.
When the shelter-in-place order went into effect in the Bay Area in mid-March, small business CEO Keith Nothacker quickly shifted his 14-person operation from an office in downtown San Francisco to most of the staff working remotely from home.
Right away, Nothacker noticed a slight change in his behavior. He was drinking more alcohol during the workweek than normal. Nothing alarming, he said, just a glass of wine here, a cocktail there, behavior he used to reserve for “Friday night happy hour or going out to dinner on the weekends.
"Sure enough, when we look at the before-and-after data for people sheltering in place across the country, we’ve never seen such a clear-cut dramatic change from one day to the next," Nothacker said. The biggest one-day leap in alcohol consumption the first day after the shelter-in-place orders were issued in each state was in Washington state, followed by North Carolina and Arizona:In North Carolina, average BACs shot up 200%.In Ohio, average BACs increased 83% the first day after the shelter-in-place order was issued and 86% the following day.
The other major finding is people are drinking a lot more during the week, most notably Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and alcohol consumption is actually down during the weekends:In Chicago, weekday average BACs are up 52%, and weekend average BACs are down 26%.In Arizona, weekday average BACs are up 63%; weekend average BACs are unchanged.“For me, all the different days of the week blend together now,” Nothacker said. “There are no special occasions.
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