Interviews With Australians Drinking Their Way Through the Lockdown

"There's a new depressing thing on the news every 10 minutes. Throwing down wine is the only way to ignore it."

The spread of the novel coronavirus has created a new and scary world. Throughout Australia, people are now spending all day, every day in their homes: bored, isolated, and worried about the future.

So I don’t know about you, but I’ve been dealing with all this by stockpiling magnums of wine. Honestly, without wine, I don’t know where my head would be at. And I figured there must be other people out there who are stocking up on booze rather than toilet paper and drinking themselves into a false sense of comfort—so I asked a few friends about their COVID-19 drinking habits. I also asked them to send me photos of their stockpiles of booze, which they did only too happily.

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