If pubs and restaurants shut, how will it change society?

What if pubs close in their drives? It could happen. In Bolton in England a total lockdown on pubs has been in place for 2 weeks. That could well be the first town in Britain to basically have no nightlife revolving around alcohol anymore. I wonder what will happen.

Will people go onto illegal drugs more there? Will it become a more sober place? More religious? More spiritual? Will it help or hinder Autistic people?

Personally, I'm not attached to pubs and bars. Nor restaurants all that much. It's probably my Autistic perspective, my particular perspective as well actually, but I've always been and felt excluded in them. I was kicked out of many bars for trivial reasons. I always found them to be cliquish places with overzealous security and lots of men looking for fights.

Restaurants. I just think in this country they're overpriced pretentious rubbish anyway. In places like India and China they have interesting, good street food at reasonable prices that doesn't have all the pretension and phoney status attached to it. Maybe if all those ones go bust in this country we might see more of that kind of thing here. After all, if any establishments are going to survive these restrictions better it will be the takeaways like the old fish and chippies.

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  • The big problem is the cost of doing business in the UK - eating street food in 3rd world countries is playing Russian roulette with your life - literally.- but UK eating places are regulated and have to meet health & quality standards.    This all has to be paid for and wages and premises costs have to be paid so nothing is cheap in this country.

    I can see that lots of independent places will be bled dry and go out of business - but it will still physically exist so a new owner can restart the business if there is a profit to be made.    

    There are lots of political reasons why all this is happening - but I'm not going there.

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  • The big problem is the cost of doing business in the UK - eating street food in 3rd world countries is playing Russian roulette with your life - literally.- but UK eating places are regulated and have to meet health & quality standards.    This all has to be paid for and wages and premises costs have to be paid so nothing is cheap in this country.

    I can see that lots of independent places will be bled dry and go out of business - but it will still physically exist so a new owner can restart the business if there is a profit to be made.    

    There are lots of political reasons why all this is happening - but I'm not going there.

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