To a certain degree it was tongue in cheek. People need to support the live band scene and get out to the dance clubs again. Between the no-smoking in the bars (I support that) and Covid, those are just 2 factors that have hurt the mingling of people to talk and potentially doing the nasty…bare minimum set up a coffee date…add in an over-reliance on dating apps and communicating with people via text or apps. Have to make a strong effort for everyone to socialize more…even the socially awkward, the well overweight and even the butterfaces.I assume this is tongue and cheek !
40 - 50 years ago, part of the State of NJ attempts to curtail the alcohol death rate in cars, they had a program. The program used social workers, ABC Agents and NJSP (on OT details !). Just before closing time (2 AM in most of NJ), the others would go into bars. Identify drunks at the bars and quasi detain and transport to center, where the drunks were talked to by trained social workers. The NJSP were just along if the drunk got rowdy !
It didn't work ! Why ?
Because you were working with drunks !