The Average American Has Spent 172 Hours of the Pandemic Drunk

American Addiction Centers polled 3,000 people. And in the first 11 weeks of the pandemic, we spent 172 hours of it drunk. That’s seven full days, plus four hours. And it’s just the average. Here are the ten states that have been the drunkest since mid-March . . .

1. South Dakota, 468 hours drunk. That’s 19-and-a-half days’ worth, or a full QUARTER of the lockdown.

2. New Mexico, 444 hours.

3. New Jersey, 375.

4. Montana, 339.

5. Colorado, 337.

6. Connecticut, 288.

7. Minnesota, 272.

8. Georgia, 261.

9. Maine, 234 hours, or just under 10 days.

10. Mississippi, also 234.

Iowa came in at 123 hours.

The states that reported the lowest numbers are Nevada, 33 hours . . . Idaho, 44 . . . Kentucky, 50 . . . New Hampshire, 66 . . . and Pennsylvania, 74.

(AmericanAddictionCenters.org has the full list of all 50 states.)