Friends and relatives have told me story after story of this person and that person that they know drinking all the time, or way too much.
I have no doubt that this thing is going to turn a lot of people into problem drinkers and alcoholics.
Posted on 04/26/2020 12:59:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Based on how Americans are handling the coronavirus lockdowns, it is hard to be optimistic about what will happen when a really severe crisis hits us. Yes, this pandemic is definitely a great tragedy. There are more than 700,000 confirmed cases in the U.S. and more than 40,000 Americans have died. But it isn’t the end of the world. I am sorry to tell you this, but COVID-19 is not the worst thing that we are going to face. In fact, it is not even close to the worst thing that we are going to face. So it is a bit disheartening to see so many Americans responding to this pandemic so poorly.
Let me give you some examples of what I am talking about. Polling firms have been extremely active lately, and even though nearly 40 percent of all U.S. adults are obese, one survey found that Americans are binging on snack foods during these lockdowns like never before…
About 40% of people say they’ve been eating more snack foods since the outbreak began, with 26% admitting they’re finding comfort in chocolate, specifically, according to a Harris Poll of 2,013 US adults conducted over the weekend.
If overeating was all that we had to worry about, I could live with that.
But it turns out that Americans are also indulging in a whole bunch of other self-destructive behaviors during this time. At a moment in our history when alcohol-related deaths in the U.S. are already at an all-time high, heavy drinkers have decided that this pandemic is a perfect opportunity to drink even more…
(Excerpt) Read more at themostimportantnews.com ...
It’s what happens when an entire nation watches a decade of Walking Dead.
Power of suggestion. Think I’ll get some cookies. ;)
I would assume that pornography websites are raking in a LOT of money, now that guys are in their bedrooms all day and nothing else to do. Remember as a youth, going to the zoos, and animals locked down had nothing do to but fool with their virile members, and pick feces out of the anus of a companion.
Did the author ever get to the part of what’s ahead that we can’t handle?
The Emporer’s New Plague will prove itself.
Just you wait.
Those piles of bodies and blackened skies are coming.
Never met my ‘x’ I see. May she RIP.
Yeah! Boobies!
I wasn't eating junk food to begin with but now I don't even go to restaurants anymore (where they can sneak in some unhealthy stuff without me realizing). I cook my own meals at home and they are nutritious and all natural.
Also, with everything closed, I have increases my daily walking about 50% - instead of five miles a day, I'm closer to 7 1/2 miles a day. Definitely lost some weight as my clothes fit looser.
Alcohol intake has increased a bit though.
They’re on mid season hiatus. Or something.
Oh brother - it’s a manufactured crisis and the people are wising up to it.
Unless we learn hard lessons from what is today more properly a debacle than it ever was a crisis — and learn quickly, America will not recover sufficiently before the next flu virus — or, God forbid — the “crisis of global warming or climate change or whatever-the-hell-it’s-now-called” — hits which I predict will happen soon after President Trump is re-elected.
2 hours + walking is great. I do about slightly less than an hour.
To the author, I say; “Oh, ye of little faith. Why are you so afraid?”
All the things he listed are common coping techniques.
They do not necessarily indicate a society that’s lost or stuck on helplessness. Just be glad there hasn’t been a severe and sustained uptick in domestic violence. Having the whole family all sardined together for prolonged periods may be a struggle for some. No jobs, no school.
It is way overblown and like you say, people are wising up to it and who is lying to us.
IF we ever have a real catastrophe, a lot of people won’t listen to the media after this.
They have cried wolf one too many times.
Friends and relatives have told me story after story of this person and that person that they know drinking all the time, or way too much.
I have no doubt that this thing is going to turn a lot of people into problem drinkers and alcoholics.
My friends and I have either jogged 3.8 miles or ridden our bikes 25-30 miles almost every day for the last month and a half. And we are in one of the 9 rural states that had the good fortune or wisdom to NOT be a “Stay at Home” lockdown state.
If anything, this phony-bologna, plastic-banana, good-time Charlie, rock-n-roll ‘pandemic’ has PROVEN to me that the choices I’ve made in my life that brought me to where I am now - living on a farm, buried in the countryside - was the right way to go. :)
A few more improvements to The Homestead and we’ll be ready for pretty much anything Mother Government can throw at us. ;)
I walk too! I walk from my bed to the bathroom, to the refrigerator, to my chair, to the refrigerator, to my chair, to the bathroom, to my bed. Rinse repeat for tomorrow.
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