It’s important to be safe. Public place. During the day.

spending huge amount of time talking to strangers on the Internet amounts to nothing, people might have no connection in real life. Especially texting. Anyone can text anything to anybody. For all we know the person might be watching a movie and texts during commercial break or went to sleep and gave his phone to his little brother to keep typing. Who really knows.

Meeting in real life is paramount for even knowing if there is a connection. But pandemics make if difficult so perhaps dating could be put on hold but on the other hand meeting in a public place wearing a mask is doable.