Did you start drinking more during the Covid lockdown?

I genuinely wonder sometimes if I would have gotten this bad if it hadn’t been for Covid. Maybe it accelerated my alcoholism more— I would have gotten here anyway? The beginning of the pandemic was a horrific confluence of events for me, and I made some really bad personal decisions, and I started drinking. A whole lot. And then I got long COVID, which made me drink more. But no one really talks about this aspect of the pandemic around me. Everyone kind of jokes about drinking, but it is not taken seriously. What were your experiences?