• Donkter@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    People still go out to events like concerts and holiday parties. Far fewer people casually go out to their local bars and coffee shops during the week. I’m pretty sure that’s empirical.

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      14 days ago

      Far fewer people casually go out to their local bars and coffee shops during the week

      Maybe in aggregate. But I can’t speak to that personally. My neighborhood bar is regularly slammed. There was a line around the block for some novelty tot bag at my local coffee shop.

      Could just be a Houston phenomenon. But this insistence that nobody leaves the house anymore feels more like Internet dogma than fact.