Jaxjacky
What a gross generalisation MayBee70, our pub will have approx 70% of customers with one vaccination and at a guess 30% -45% with two. You sanitise, walk in, sign in, with a mask on, sit at a table, place your order, table service, if your bum leaves your seat, mask is on. Tables limited to 6, no table hopping, no standing, if you break the rules you’re out. Safer than a supermarket. I object to your statement, have you been to a pub in the last year?
No I haven’t been to a pub in the past year and I don’t intend to go to one in the near future. One of the first things that eastern countries did at the start of the pandemic was to turn off air conditioning and ventilate everywhere. The need to ventilate has taken even longer to sink in than the fact that the WHO originally said that the virus wasn’t airborne so no one thought it was. Many still do. Which doesn’t mean that I don’t sympathise with people who run pubs etc. We’ve had beer lorries coming through the village for days delivering to local pubs and it would be unfair if the government suddenly announced that they weren’t allowed to open on Monday. But the fact is there will be an element of risk involved and it’s wrong to say that any inside environment is safe. Especially as people will be eating drinking and talking without masks on. If the government had acted sooner we wouldn’t be in this position so be angry with them, not me. I want this pandemic to be over so that people such as yourself can open up your businesses 100% and I’ve done everything personally possible over the past year to enable that to happen. Someone on Facebook the other day said all of their friends gave false names and addresses because they couldn’t afford to not work if they were contacted. I’m seriously concerned about what is going to happen over the next few weeks because the India variant is even more transmissible than the Kent one and the R rate (which doesn’t seem to get mentioned much these days) is hovering @1 and is possibly higher.