Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

[Hilts]

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I know I've mentioned it before but my big worry is the noises coming from some government sources that pubs will be the last thing allowed to open and maybe not until next year. The people who would rather that pubs never open again are clearly pleased by this, no particular section of society but those who believe that anything enjoyable must be wrong or bad for you, and the argument is probably bouyed by a recent servey result that claimed that 60% of the polulation said it would be unsafe to go to a pub for a long time. But of course as we know from "Yes minister" you can make a poll show anytihng you want just be asking the right questions.

My feeling is that a pub is a lot more than just a place to buy alcohol, it is and always has been the centre of the local community a place to meet friends and to relax after work.
The argument is that crowding in pubs will make them breeding grounds for the virus but if these 60% think it isn't safe they don't have to go. It isn't compulsory. Just because they allow pubs to open doesn't force people to go to them.
But keeping them closed for a long period when everything else is being relaxed is a recipe for a lot of pissed off citizens.
The other thing is that the longer the are forced to stay closed the greater the number that will never open again, further eroding what to people all over the world is seen as a british national institution. There is nothing even remotely like the proper old british pub anywhere else in the world

I regularly google when pubs will open.😭

I really dont see how they can open for a long time though. Maybe until a vaccine/ significantly better treatment.

[tell it like it is]

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I hope Canton Cross doesn't have to close permanently due to this. Love that place for pre match pint or nine...

[Hilts]

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Johnson will probably open them at some point and tell people not to go to pubs anyway. That was the initial advice from him. Im not closing them but dont go there!!!!

[xsnaggle]

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Johnson will probably open them at some point and tell people not to go to pubs anyway. That was the initial advice from him. Im not closing them but dont go there!!!!

Well I don't actrually see much wrong with that. after lockdown Just because they are open it doesn't force people to go and they can spar wide if they wish. Saying they are open but don't go after the lockdown is at least giving people an informed cxhoice. Knowing the risk if they choose to go they can.
Also those that have had it can go and those in low risk catagories (Oh hang on the bloody place will be full of teenagers lol)

[Hilts]

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Well I don't actrually see much wrong with that. after lockdown Just because they are open it doesn't force people to go and they can spar wide if they wish. Saying they are open but don't go after the lockdown is at least giving people an informed cxhoice. Knowing the risk if they choose to go they can.
Also those that have had it can go and those in low risk catagories (Oh hang on the bloody place will be full of teenagers lol)

No.

The UK Prime Minister should not be allowing places to open but saying stay out of them.

Its not the danger to the individual its the effect of catching it and passing it on and it spreading.

When they open pubs its got to be safe not just for those that use them.

[Croesy Blue]

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Well I don't actrually see much wrong with that. after lockdown Just because they are open it doesn't force people to go and they can spar wide if they wish. Saying they are open but don't go after the lockdown is at least giving people an informed cxhoice. Knowing the risk if they choose to go they can.
Also those that have had it can go and those in low risk catagories (Oh hang on the bloody place will be full of teenagers lol)

How can you still not understand how it works? People going to pubs makes it more likely other people will get it. It isn't just the individual who goes to the pub who'll get it, it's potentially anyone they interact with for the next 2 weeks.

This is why the "restrictions" didn't work at first because pubs, restaurants and gyms were open but people were being told maybe it was best not to go to them.

[the other bob wilson]

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I know I've mentioned it before but my big worry is the noises coming from some government sources that pubs will be the last thing allowed to open and maybe not until next year. The people who would rather that pubs never open again are clearly pleased by this, no particular section of society but those who believe that anything enjoyable must be wrong or bad for you, and the argument is probably bouyed by a recent servey result that claimed that 60% of the polulation said it would be unsafe to go to a pub for a long time. But of course as we know from "Yes minister" you can make a poll show anytihng you want just be asking the right questions.

My feeling is that a pub is a lot more than just a place to buy alcohol, it is and always has been the centre of the local community a place to meet friends and to relax after work.
The argument is that crowding in pubs will make them breeding grounds for the virus but if these 60% think it isn't safe they don't have to go. It isn't compulsory. Just because they allow pubs to open doesn't force people to go to them.
But keeping them closed for a long period when everything else is being relaxed is a recipe for a lot of pissed off citizens.
The other thing is that the longer the are forced to stay closed the greater the number that will never open again, further eroding what to people all over the world is seen as a british national institution. There is nothing even remotely like the proper old british pub anywhere else in the world

The problem with the argument about pubs is that it still seems pretty clear that the virus is able to spread more easily indoors than outdoors and pubs are a venue that encourages people to congregate together in large groups often for long periods. Much has been made of the decision to go ahead with the Cheltenham festival and the Liverpool v Athletico Madrid games and both of the venues have, apparently, being "hotspots" in comparison to other areas of similar size. The virus could have thrived at those two venues, but I'd say that it's perhaps more likely that the real damage was done in the pubs and clubs close by.

If COVID19 was only passed on by people showing obvious symptoms, then, maybe, a decision to reopen pubs could be justified on the grounds that the person thinking of staying in a pub could make an informed decision as to whether it was dangerous, but it isn't. It wouldn't surprise me if outdoor sports stadiums are allowed to open before pubs - it would be a brave or reckless Government that opened pubs in the next few months in my opinion.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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Well I don't actrually see much wrong with that. after lockdown Just because they are open it doesn't force people to go and they can spar wide if they wish. Saying they are open but don't go after the lockdown is at least giving people an informed cxhoice. Knowing the risk if they choose to go they can.
Also those that have had it can go and those in low risk catagories (Oh hang on the bloody place will be full of teenagers lol)

There will come a tipping point when we [ Joe public] will just accept the small risks out there and get on with living a life - friends, dating, pubs, sport, meals out, holidays. However, the Govt. will probably continue to try and organize and control peoples' lives for as long as they can

[Hilts]

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I cant see pubs opening this year.

Unless theres a major breakthrough.

[Hilts]

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There will come a tipping point when we [ Joe public] will just accept the small risks out there and get on with living a life - friends, dating, pubs, sport, meals out, holidays. However, the Govt. will probably continue to try and organize and control peoples' lives for as long as they can

Yes your right.

Im.due to go abroad August. I wont be going because I cant. If they say I can i will go.

I cant play or watch football. If given the green light I will do both.

Yep pubs - they open im going.

I dont see them as small risks at the moment. So i expect all to be shut off to me for many months to come.

[tell it like it is]

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The problem is Bob that argument can be used against any disease that's infectable and can be asymptomatic / symptoms don't show for a time period.

Chickenpox, for example? Ok, low chance an adult hasn't had exposure to it but it's a quick and easy example to use. Adult may have it, go to pub and potentially pass on to others who aren't immune.

[ToTaL ITK]

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No.

The UK Prime Minister should not be allowing places to open but saying stay out of them.

Its not the danger to the individual its the effect of catching it and passing it on and it spreading.

When they open pubs its got to be safe not just for those that use them.

its what the swedish PM is doing, exactly that

[xsnaggle]

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No.

The UK Prime Minister should not be allowing places to open but saying stay out of them.

Its not the danger to the individual its the effect of catching it and passing it on and it spreading.

When they open pubs its got to be safe not just for those that use them.

That is just silly.
Its not the danger to the individual its the effect of catching it and passing it on and it spreading.

What does that mean? Who is the individual and why it is not a danger to him? Is the person catcing it not an individual? Is the person passing it on not an individual? What is the difference between going to work and catching it, passing it on etc and going to the pub and doing it? The only difference is that someone with the need to work and earn money must go to work but if he so chooses he does not 'have' to go to the pub.
When they open pubs its got to be safe not just for those that use them
How would pubs be not safe to people who don't go to them? that defeats me completely. The people who owrk in them and deliver stock to them will be doing what other people are doing every day now, and like the customers they can choose to do it or not. Publicans and their staff need to be allowed to go back to work just like everybody else.

[xsnaggle]

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How can you still not understand how it works? People going to pubs makes it more likely other people will get it. It isn't just the individual who goes to the pub who'll get it, it's potentially anyone they interact with for the next 2 weeks.

This is why the "restrictions" didn't work at first because pubs, restaurants and gyms were open but people were being told maybe it was best not to go to them.

I know how it works dummy. If people can do all the other things they will be permitted to do after lockdown is lifted the powers-that be will struggle to convince the average working man/woman that they cannot go to the pub. And if they continue to refuse permission for pubs to open they will destroy an industry which is already under threat anyway and which is part of a great majority of the nromal day to day life of british people.

[surge]

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Professor @AllysonPollock: “We wrote to the gov’t to ask why, despite WHO guidance to isolate for 14 days, they were recommending only 7. Their reply relied on the advice they have received, which of course they have not shared with us.”

https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/statu...86173455679488

Quote from the "Independent Sage" meeting which can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFLA...ature=youtu.be

Allyson Pollock is Professor Allyson Pollock, co-director of the Newcastle University Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science. Sir David King (name most linked with meeting in papers, but not only name involved) is former chief scientific adviser to UK government.

The WHO are saying one thing, the UK government are saying another and the only explanation is "we follow the science." At what point do we in the UK get to find out what's being said and by whom?