They really need to open pubs to give some sort of structure back to the drinking culture because people are basically running their own pubs in their back gardens at the moment (round me anyway) and that kind of unregulated free pour, drugs ahoy partying is where you end up with fandoms shagging under a bush (true story) for the whole neighbourhood to “enjoy” and that’s just one amusing dimension to a wider problem where people prone to alcohol and drug abuse are getting sucked down a rabbit hole right now with the lockdown mentality of “nothing to do so might as well get drunk”...
Bringing back pubs brings back some societal boundaries that give people a destination, a start and end point for their social drinking. No it won’t help or change the deeply entrenched alcoholics ( two of my friends who had been doing better with their drinking pre lockdown are back to their old ways) but it will take some of them out of your neighbour‘s flat and back into public view, thereby tempering their behaviour.
That’s what pubs are for at the end of the day.