Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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My mate invited me here and said it was business as usual.

we may as well just accept it now.

Seems to be, but you order at a hatch in the window rather than at the bar, and drink outside the pub. The mad thing is, the market is plastered with signs basically saying thanks for being here, but for us to stay open you need to shop and then leave. So having several bars around the edges with loads of people hanging about having pints kinda ruins all that. There was a lady from some national pubs association on Any Answers on the radio earlier, and she couldn't give a stuff about safety. She just wanted the pubs open again.
 
Seems to be, but you order at a hatch in the window rather than at the bar, and drink outside the pub. The mad thing is, the market is plastered with signs basically saying thanks for being here, but for us to stay open you need to shop and then leave. So having several bars around the edges with loads of people hanging about having pints kinda ruins all that. There was a lady from some national pubs association on Any Answers on the radio earlier, and she couldn't give a stuff about safety. She just wanted the pubs open again.
The thing is, I get the need to open up again. I get why they are worried and it’s their livelihood etc. But this lockdown is over now. There’s no going back. We won’t lockdown again. And we are just going to have to accept that we’ll lose loved ones. Provided that people appreciate that fact, that risk, then sound.
I’d rather have my family alive and be out of work with no money but I don’t expect everyone else to think that way.
But that’s the choice they are making.
Accept it and let’s just focus on other things instead.
Those people better not criticise the government or health services when they lose someone close to them though.
 
Exact same by me Bruce.

Girls turning up, getting out of taxis all done up to the nines, to go and stand in the street, drinking wine out of a glass, at 8 quid a go.

@ForeverBlue92 if you turned up with a few bottles of wine, you’d deffo be in with a chance lol

Turns out the woman on R4 earlier was Emma McClarkin, a former Tory MEP and now boss of the British Beer and Pub Association. No wonder she was awful.
 
The thing is, I get the need to open up again. I get why they are worried and it’s their livelihood etc. But this lockdown is over now. There’s no going back. We won’t lockdown again. And we are just going to have to accept that we’ll lose loved ones. Provided that people appreciate that fact, that risk, then sound.
I’d rather have my family alive and be out of work with no money but I don’t expect everyone else to think that way.
But that’s the choice they are making.
Accept it and let’s just focus on other things instead.
Those people better not criticise the government or health services when they lose someone close to them though.

Not sure where you’re getting that from tbh.
 
The thing is, I get the need to open up again. I get why they are worried and it’s their livelihood etc. But this lockdown is over now. There’s no going back. We won’t lockdown again. And we are just going to have to accept that we’ll lose loved ones. Provided that people appreciate that fact, that risk, then sound.
I’d rather have my family alive and be out of work with no money but I don’t expect everyone else to think that way.
But that’s the choice they are making.
Accept it and let’s just focus on other things instead.
Those people better not criticise the government or health services when they lose someone close to them though.

Makes a mockery of the furlough scheme as well, as that's essentially paying people to stay at home out of harms way. It's not paying them to sod off to the beach or be prats in various other ways. If you're going to be a knob jockey then you may as well get back to work and stop bankrupting the state.
 
Makes a mockery of the furlough scheme as well, as that's essentially paying people to stay at home out of harms way. It's not paying them to sod off to the beach or be prats in various other ways. If you're going to be a knob jockey then you may as well get back to work and stop bankrupting the state.

My missus has been off work since March, her place was closed down, it opened up a few weeks ago, they closed down all the other local sites and told her that her job was under threat and they would be reducing staff. They rang the other day to tell her that they arent reducing staff now, but to carry on enjoying her 80% holiday.

The place is now mostly operating at full pelt, but with a reduced staff in certain places, they normally have 4 people doing her job, now they have 2, who as you would imagine are worked off their feet.

Thats making a mockery of the furlough scheme.
 
Makes a mockery of the furlough scheme as well, as that's essentially paying people to stay at home out of harms way. It's not paying them to sod off to the beach or be prats in various other ways. If you're going to be a knob jockey then you may as well get back to work and stop bankrupting the state.

On the flip side, it also brings the best out of people.

There’s a bunch of volunteers turn up every morning to help out the lone council street cleaner clear up the mess.
 
On the flip side, it also brings the best out of people.

There’s a bunch of volunteers turn up every morning to help out the lone council street cleaner clear up the mess.

I've had people round our way remark that they drop litter to give those street cleaners a job. Pretty [Poor language removed] up logic I must say.
 
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