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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  • I agree with some of the points like restaurants being overpriced but I think them losing business isn't going to help anyone. With less income they will have to get rid of staff or even close if they can't afford the rent which means less jobs in the economy. When there's less jobs available there is more competition for all jobs which means employers can be picky and this leads to people being overworked and unpaid for it. When less people are working more money is needed to pay those who don't work so everyone that works will either pay more tax or have to work until they are older when the pension age rises

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  • I agree with some of the points like restaurants being overpriced but I think them losing business isn't going to help anyone. With less income they will have to get rid of staff or even close if they can't afford the rent which means less jobs in the economy. When there's less jobs available there is more competition for all jobs which means employers can be picky and this leads to people being overworked and unpaid for it. When less people are working more money is needed to pay those who don't work so everyone that works will either pay more tax or have to work until they are older when the pension age rises

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