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General rule for pubs and restaurants, no masks, groups of no more than 6, groups at least 1m apart. Pubs round me are pretty sorted on this, turn up and they will seat your group according to the rules.
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General rule for pubs and restaurants, no masks, groups of no more than 6, groups at least 1m apart. Pubs round me are pretty sorted on this, turn up and they will seat your group according to the rules.
Old Skier
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Instead of listening to what you want to hear listen to what is being said. The underlying tone is "If you don't stop being selfish, interpreting the rules in a way that suits you and play the I'm confused tag as you feel fit, the restrictions will get worse." Shame that political correctness stops them from saying it in my opinion.
Hacker Khan
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I'm more worried about the fact our economy seems to mostly rely on people buying pasties from Greggs and burger and chips from Wetherspoons. I'd of hoped it was a bit more structurally sound and be better able to withstand the odd crisis here and there. But seems not, so I best get down the spoons as soon as poss.
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you'd have to be a bit of a wombat to think you can shut down an economy without any adverse impact. But there are plenty of those about! 
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you'd have to be a bit of a wombat to think you can shut down an economy without any adverse impact. But there are plenty of those about!
And many will be quick to blame the incumbent government forgetting that a major part of our economy is hospitality which suffered some of the heaviest loses and required substantially assist fro the various government schemes.
While we as a nation prefere quantity over quality this will be a problem.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Well many of the folks we saw sitting outside our local pub were not adhering to that.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Nothing to do with what I want to hear - I'm trying to understand them all - and it's a moving feast. 14% say they fully understand ALL of the rules - in a poll why would the 86% say that they don't understand all the rules if they did. I understand some of the rules - I do not understand all of the rules for all different scenarios. If you have listened to Hancock at all today you'll hear how on top of the rules and the rationale for them that he is.
I do not have any personal issue. If I am not sure about what I can or cannot do in any coming scenario I might be involved in then I look it up - and if I don't like what I read then I don't do it.
But I look at what I see happening out there and - if I go down your route - there are too many who are choosing to do pretty much what they want with the excuse of 'it's too complicated, I don't really understand'. Well the government needs to kill that as an excuse, and get back to the sort of very simple message we had at the outset - a message that we all understood completely. Because on the road we are on at the moment I fear that we are heading to a difficult place.
[EDIT]Just heard that Johnson agrees. Message has to be as simple as possible. So Hands, Face, Space.
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Old Skier
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Down my route, explain. If this is happening report them, authorit have employed enforcement officers to deal with it.
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That goes with the terroritory doesn’t it?
Anything bad happening during the period a party is in power they get the blame.
Swinglowandslow
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This is getting frustrating. Read your bit in bold again ( just so you understand, I agree with what it says) . Because you wrote it, I suppose you agree with what it says.
It says that people understand but choose to ignore.
How is the government needing to kill that as an excuse.? It's a plain case of refusing to do something you know you should do.
Saying the government need to do something is implying they haven't done all they should have done
( your favourite pastime).
The responsibility for" not doing what is needed", which is what you rightly describe in bold, - is that of the idiots being the many who are choosing...etc.
No one else's, period.
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SocketRocket
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Certain demographics are taking the attitude their social lives are more important than containing the virus and the rest of society has to share the burden of their actions. Completely selfish but not unexpected.
Kellfire
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I have friends who simply won’t comply with the guidance and it’s come close to causing massive arguments. When smart, educated people are buying into conspiracy theories you know times are crazy.
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There are issues with ALL age groups, yes, some worse than others and at times all have “out done” each other, but some of the behaviour is down to how the information related to the virus has been communicated by the various Governments around the World and the W.H.O. before and during this pandemic.
drdel
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I'm afraid I have friends who refuse to take the restrictions on board. One is a MD of medium size business, another's family is in the medical profession. Unbelievable!
Crumplezone
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Strange that really. Seeing as the global banking crisis was caused entirely by banks.
pendodave
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When smart educated people look at scandanavian shaped elephants in the room, examine death rates for the last 3 months, consider the generational damage to public health, the economy, our culture and education bought upon us by the government's policies, perhaps you should think again, rather than dismissing them?
Kellfire
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Erm, what? I don’t get the point you’re making because the people I’m talking about certainly aren’t doing these things. They’re saying it’s a conspiracy to control us and that masks don’t work.
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It's certainly strange, I have a mate who is an ex brain surgeon, now a GP, smartest man I know by a country mile, but he is so against the lockdown and facemasks it's unreal.
Jamesbrown
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A lot of people can’t think for themselves , they need to be led, need arbitrary signs and guidance to follow. Like they all swallowed the blue pill of ignorance and just play along.
95% of people that I saw at night didn’t wear a mask before the 24th July, now they’re giving themselves a hernia shouting “wear a damn mask”
like the transmission of the virus has changed and is completely new. The government controlling things regarding masks seems way other the top though
The below was posted on a local community social media page earlier today;
Latest Government regulations: "If you test positive for coronavirus, or you have symptoms, you now need to self-isolate for 10 days rather than seven. The self-isolation period remains at 14 days for household members of a positive case, people contacted through NHS Test and Trace, and people returning to the UK from certain countries."
I don't know about you, but that sounds self-contradictory.
Why is it that some people are choosing to be so obtuse? It may just be me, but I have found the vast majority of Covid guidelines very straightforward. Simple to understand. And the above is as simple as can be. Not even remotely difficult to grasp.
I am starting to find the public response to the pandemic, in certain quarters at least, very tiresome.
Latest Government regulations: "If you test positive for coronavirus, or you have symptoms, you now need to self-isolate for 10 days rather than seven. The self-isolation period remains at 14 days for household members of a positive case, people contacted through NHS Test and Trace, and people returning to the UK from certain countries."
I don't know about you, but that sounds self-contradictory.
Why is it that some people are choosing to be so obtuse? It may just be me, but I have found the vast majority of Covid guidelines very straightforward. Simple to understand. And the above is as simple as can be. Not even remotely difficult to grasp.
I am starting to find the public response to the pandemic, in certain quarters at least, very tiresome.
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