Quote Originally Posted by chrisp_1927 View Post
Pubs really should have been one of the last places to reopen. But you could also argue that the take away pint situation we have here is even worse.

I don't think there will be a huge spike after this weekend though. I'd imagine that most of the people flocking to the pubs haven't been particularly observant of lockdown anyway. The real danger is in a few weeks when it all becomes a bit more 'normalised', and people who were being sensible start mixing in groups in pubs.
For anyone who has been shielding or trying to keep contact to a minimum, I'd say that the next 4/5 weeks are time to double down not ease up. Over the next few weeks that dreaded 'herd immunity' may well start to be built up
Looking at the pictures (which I still believe will be mostly archive) would suggest that the majority whooping it up and forgetting the Social Distancing thing are not in the groups who are deemed to be most at risk, so infection rates may go up but it may not adversely affect death rates so much.
But they could return to places where they might pass it on to those more susceptible. We must wait a week or two to see if that actually happens.