Many people for sure stopped gambling because of prioritizing their needs now that they can't work outside, or their financial status is at risk because of the pandemic. But one thing I noticed to myself, that since my work now is online, it gives me access to easily transfer funds on the internet as well as depositing to trading platforms and playing in gambling sites. I find it more accessible compared to physical casinos as you can play even at home with your friends, and you will discover tons of new games as well.
There's probably no statistics available yet, but the pandemic is not really a reason for a gambler to stop playing. Thus, they can be more engaged to gambling, now that they discover tons of online gambling casino available.
This is what actually happen to me , I need to manage my money and needed to funds other things so that my family will not hunger and we will have an emergency fund, for now since I am not a full time gambler ,I am not thinking to it now, I need to prioritize this things over my necessities.
I am also refraining myself now from gambling. I have realize that even though I do not gamble as frequent as others, the accumulative amount of I have spent could have just been saved and may be used during emergencies. Especially that pandemic has been a great economic constraint and many catastrophe are happening, I think we all should save and get ready for calamities.
I think you should stop counting how much you've bet and how much you had lose, so that you will not having regret, when we gamble we need to bet the money that are not came from our emergency fund or to our savings , it should have other budget.