Some drinking more, but alcohol sales down

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Alcohol producers and distributors report selling 61 per cent less alcohol in April by volume than the same time in 2019.

The figures put out by the Beverages Council on Sunday suggest demand has recovered slightly in May but was still 32 per cent lower in the first two weeks of the month than a year ago.in the month to early May, but one in 10 were drinking less.Nicole Lee, professor at the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University, said the question was whether people were drinking to excess rather than whether they were drinking more or less.

Spirits have had a slight rebound in May as people have started making cocktails at home or using the various cocktail delivery services popping up.

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All is does is lower your immune system! I want to be healthy, but have a unhealthy immune system.

So the experts said we were going to have hundreds of thousands of deaths, we would be killing each other in isolation and we would all be alcoholics, seems some 'experts' are not that at all rather they just make shit up.

But I remember calls from some doomsayers to close liquor outlets because Australians were going to drink too much during lockdown.

There's only so much you can drink when you can't leave the house to walk it off. lol.

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