A few key points from the article:
- The rate of those deaths has been increasing every year for 20 years by +7% or less; it was +26% in 2020, with the highest rate in 40 years.
- It is estimated that more than half the alcohol sold in the US is used for binge drinking.
- +42% of alcohol-related death for women ages 35 to 44.
- Those deaths are directly related to alcohol consumption and don’t include drunk driving or alcohol-fueled violence.
If we include those, we’re talking about 140,000 deaths per year. We’re losing about 10K folks to COVID every month (120,000 a year). So alcohol in the US right now is more deadly than this stupid virus.
This is not good?