Drinking During the Corona Period

This is the blunt side of the Coronavirus period.....increased drinking (in Germany).

N-TV put up a piece and discussed this to a degree.

First, remember that bars and pubs are shut down, and if you want to drink....you do it on your patio, balcony, or backyard.  This shutdown period started up in February. 

Alcohol purchases at grocery stores and drink-shops are up.

At least one-third more wine sales have occurred in the past month.  Same story with booze....going up around 31-percent (talking about gin or whiskey).  The pre-mixed bottles/cans?  Up by 87-percent.  Even beer went up by almost 12-percent.

So what's all of this mean?  If you get stuck with cabin-fever (isolation)....people tend to drink more.  They drink in the house....on the patio....or on the balcony.

No one talks about the summer months coming up....when a lot of Germans would typically be in a local beer-garden.  So I expect even more sales to occur, if the pubs don't open.