Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[arminisgod]

And most places were fine last night.

But we have our example, and as always the same people will be predicting second waves and shaming the public.

all the pubs I went in were fine, distancing happened and people just calm, enjoying it. Hasn't been any cases or deaths in my village though

 

[Charro]

 

[davek]

all the pubs I went in were fine, distancing happened and people just calm, enjoying it. Hasn't been any cases or deaths in my village though

FFS, did you HAVE to go on a pubcrawl?

I expect it's something whereby you think you look like a proper lad and a right laff. You dont.

 

[Catfish Blues]

For every @Tea_drinker and, on the other side, @davek, there's probably lots more people just being quietly cautious, slowly getting with life without feeling the need to share their views on social media.

#PraiseTheLurkers

 

[davek]

Whilst I agree with your sentiments, we have laws and a police force precisely because not everyone can be trusted to do the right thing.

Pubs should have been padlocked; ditto restaurants and other Covid19 incubators.

Asking a gang of kids (which is what adult Britons are after 40 years of neo-liberalism and 'the consumer revolution') to behave responsibly is like putting a bunch of banana's in front of a load of chimps and telling them they should wait until they're hungry to eat them.

 

[davek]

For every @Tea_drinker and, on the other side, @davek, there's probably lots more people just being quietly cautious, slowly getting with life without feeling the need to share their views on social media.

#PraiseTheLurkers

If you're on social media, what else are you doing?

Physician heal thyself.

 

[Charro]

Pubs should have been padlocked; ditto restaurants and other Covid19 incubators.

Asking a gang of kids (which is what adult Britons are after 40 years of neo-liberalism and 'the consumer revolution') to behave responsibly is like putting a bunch of banana's in front of a load of chimps and telling them they should wait until they're hungry to eat them.

Even though the majority of people did act responsibly and have done throughout this pandemic.

 

[Catfish Blues]

If you're on social media, what else are you doing?

Physician heal thyself.

I was, purposefully, being self deprecating you daft sour faced lemon faced loon !

 

[peteblue]

That’s good to hear really.....

 

[orchard]

For sure, but equally, as an ostensibly liberal country, we're less draconian with those laws than elsewhere, which is ordinarily a good thing. For what it's worth, on our walk along the south bank yesterday, the few bars we passed didn't seem too bad, and the tea house we went to was fairly quiet. This was in the afternoon though. The police appear to have said things weren't too bad, so hopefully it's just isolated examples being shared on Twitter.

Well, yes, iirc a poll conducted in Friday returned 3pc would be out Saturday, with only another 3pc joining in leisure activities during the following week, and maybe a maximum of 10pc total within a month. So I think the public are being generally sensible, but the government has failed yet again to make it reasonably safe.

 

[COYBL25]

 

[Nymzee]

Yes course they do.

Why would I bother making up a lie about where my single friends in their 20’s live you mutant.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Well, yes, iirc a poll conducted in Friday returned 3pc would be out Saturday, with only another 3pc joining in leisure activities during the following week, and maybe a maximum of 10pc total within a month. So I think the public are being generally sensible, but the government has failed yet again to make it reasonably safe.

I can sympathise, as doing something vaguely resembling normal was just really nice, but I do wonder about the messaging. It's a fine line between scaring people from doing anything, and encouraging recklessness. To be honest, I'd have thought pubs would be the last places you could safely open, if only because they not only encourage less sensible behaviour than might ordinarily be the case, and also place strain on the emergency services. Is it really worth it? And I fully understand that there are pubs, such as probably Pete's, that are hubs of their community and don't suffer from the challenges of city centre pubs, but can you say some pubs can open and some can't?

 

[peteblue]

I can sympathise, as doing something vaguely resembling normal was just really nice, but I do wonder about the messaging. It's a fine line between scaring people from doing anything, and encouraging recklessness. To be honest, I'd have thought pubs would be the last places you could safely open, if only because they not only encourage less sensible behaviour than might ordinarily be the case, and also place strain on the emergency services. Is it really worth it? And I fully understand that there are pubs, such as probably Pete's, that are hubs of their community and don't suffer from the challenges of city centre pubs, but can you say some pubs can open and some can't?

I know a few Landlords who basically said that if behaviour deteriorated and the rules they have put in place ignored then they would call time and just close the place. Landlords have a duty of care both to their staff and their customers and no one would want to be, or be seen as, the cause of an outbreak. As you say, village type pubs will be no problem as they were never a problem before either. Town and City pubs need a close eye on them but that’s what the Police and Licensing Officers will be doing. The expected mayhem for Saturday didn’t appear to happen, which was a good start. Obviously if people get too drunk then distancing will go out of the window, but even if the pubs remained closed the people who do this would just get drunk in parks or ‘block parties’. At least in the pub there is a degree of control.....

 

[Barnfred 55]

Edgy and snow flakey with a great deal wokeness For once I agree with you