Not sure where to start QB other than to say how right you are! I agree with everything you say especially about the demise of the local pub as a place to interact, indeed around here so many have closed and what’s left are all struggling. I used to really enjoy going to the local for a pint and a game of cribbage, you would get to know your neighbours and discuss matters of interest, that has all gone! Sitting at home being constantly told that you need to take out life insurance to pay for your funeral appears to be the order of the day, and of course messing around with your mobile phone which marvellous as they are have taken over the lives of everyone people walking along the street with there faces buried in their phones😩 talking to their avid followers and no doubt hoping for likes! I think that people have also become far less tolerant hiding behind their fake ids and trying to be controversial or intimidating, yes we are truly becoming a nation of lonely people hooked on the internet where our every move and habit is followed by bots and cookies. My daughter is in a scheme whereby she visits and elderly lady and takes her shopping or just out and about, the lady as early onset which makes it difficult to judge how much getting a visitor helps however her face lights up when she arrives which is kind of telling.
Perhaps one day when the current trend is over we can get back to talking however the longer it goes on I doubt there will be a pub left anywhere that sells an affordable pint, my god what have we become?