As some Americans huddle in their homes and hoard toilet paper, others are taking a quite different approach — stepping out to drink the pandemic away.
Social media lit up this weekend with accounts from all over the country of people — especially young people — packing into bars. A Twitter user in Baltimore posted around 6 p.m. on Friday that every bar and restaurant on his downtown street was crammed with customers. Another user in Washington, D.C., tweeted later that evening that, while heading out to buy something from the hardware store, he passed several bars — every one of them filled with people.
“The bars in my neighborhood are all packed with young people,” one New York City resident tweeted around 8 p.m. on Friday. “Do you remember what it’s like to feel invincible?”
