Set down “Mommy’s sippy cup.” The world needs you to show up.

Amusing, perhaps, before the pandemic.

Instead of tossing a second job into our juggling act, the universe has thrown us an anvil labeled Covid-19.

Our current alcohol epidemic shares two of the three causes and conditions of other drug epidemics identified by Carl Erik Fisher, author of “The Urge: Our History of Addiction”: a novel drug, an addiction supply industry and community wounding.