Without any kind of context, why would this be the first time in a long time? Are they usually heavy drinkers but been on a sober-schedule that just been broken or something like that?
Melbourne had one of the longest lockdowns world-wide and it just got lifted.
Melbourne is just out of a 260 days lockdown.
No, they’re coming out of a 78 day lockdown. They’ve had around 260 days of lockdown _in total_ since the start of the pandemic. That’s been spread across multiple intervals, though.