Go to the movies and split a large popcorn. It takes some of the pressure away to make conversation as you’ll be watching the movie. It may also give you opportunities for a kiss or some hand on the knee kinda thing.

Avon Cinema on Thayer looks cooler than most theater chains, but really it depends on what you’d like to watch.

There are some hypotheses about this but not a lot of evidence to support it. Yeah, if you didn’t interact with other ppl for some time, you may get a cold or other virus when you start interacting socially again, but that doesn’t mean that the mild infections protect against more severe ones down the road. Immunity is largely pathogen-specific, and even for the non-specific part of the immunity, it will develop regardless of having contact with actively sick people at a bar. Preventing obvious exposures shouldn’t be discouraged— you’ll get exposed to stuff anyway.