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Lockdown or lock-in? Fears of alcoholism, addiction in confinement

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By Stéphane ORJOLLET

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@Zichi...not many for cigs and alcohol in Kanagawa anymore and you need to get a special card.

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I like a drink but knocking your body around with hangovers should be avoided even more than usual at this time.

I’m still having my usual shot of whisky a night.

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We have to scarify the many to save the few.

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If you want to have a strong reason to lay off the booze for the time being, just know that being drunk lowers your immune system, making you more vulnerable. Let's have a worldwide nomikai when this is all over.

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@Jimizo

On JT, we may disagree on a lot (and you keep down voting me), but at least we are in agreement regarding having a wee tipple now and again.

Just got some good Scotch from the supermarket on special.

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After ordering the closure of pubs and clubs in the UK, the government added off- licences to the list of essential businesses. Common sense.

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Just a problem now?

Shares in Ito-en anyone?

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There's meditation and hypnosis meditations by the dozens online. Why not give those a try?

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With more than three billion people around the world living under lockdown

None of them in Japan. People are highly expendable here.

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We’re going to have so many mental problems at the end of this tunnel. I just hope the following tunnel is not nearby.

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