It means people in lockdown that usually go to work and stop off at the pub and sleep it off being tired from work, are at home drinking all day and their grubbiness is escabated.
Online alcohol sales were experiencing rapid growth in Australia before the onset of the COVID‐19 crisis [17] and, according to liquor industry news website ‘the Shout’, there has been a significant boom in sales in recent weeks—some Australian online retailers have reported 50% to 500% increases in sales compared to the same period in 2019 [18]. Data from the United States suggest that similar trends are occurring there, with overall alcohol sales up 55% in the week ending 21 March 2020 compared to the previous year, and sales in the online alcohol delivery subsector up 243%
Then there would be meth heads, cocaine sniffers and potheads. Oh and not able to go to shop as often to get smokes. Stress! And there are guys spreading conspiracy theories escalating the paranoia of the drug users and adding to the emotional insecurity of the young who have suicidal thoughts.
