So I couldn’t talk to strangers and just had to observe all this with my own eyes and ears: I think people are pretty serious about wanting to see each other without having to get drunk. It’s been a pretty slow evolution, from a shy flirtation with socialising on zero-alcohol lager, through meeting for coffee instead, the ubiquitous Covid walking-meet, to this logical endpoint – let’s get together in a place where you cannot drink alcohol, otherwise you will faint.