Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[The Master]

4 minutes ago, virginton said:

Then you're a gormless rube who has fallen for the SG's latest goalpost shifting exercise. If there is no evidence that the NHS will be overwhelmed by critically ill Covid patients, then the default setting should be 'normality'. 

No, I understand that no matter how loudly any of us shout, we won’t be listened to. That’s been abundantly clear for a long time now  

If having to wear a mask in shops and on public transport is the price for bigger crowds and pubs opening more or less as normal, then I’ll take it. 

[Honest_Man#1]

1 minute ago, CALDERON said:

Was 2 hour slots legally required?

If it was then I don’t know of a single place that I went to that was adhering to it. 

[Marshmallo]

3 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

4 minutes ago, smpar said:

Did I hear her say pubs can stay open till midnight?

Yip and 2hrs slots and pre booking scrapped. Spontaneous pub visits back.

Until you get to the door and every single spaced out table is taken up. Will be no standing at bars etc presumably?

[super_carson]

From August self isolation binned provided double vaccinated + two weeks and you get a PCR test?  Progress, but still going to be disruptive for business if they have staff needing to take time off for test and waiting for result.

 

Bit of shit-housing aimed at the Tories there as well.  

[Todd_is_God]

Just now, The Master said:

If having to wear a mask in shops and on public transport is the price for bigger crowds and pubs opening more or less as normal, then I’ll take it. 

Best hope that comes on 9th August then...

[Billy Jean King]

I've spontaneously been in a pub recently, for longer than 2 hours.
It's a change on paper only.

In Glasgow / Edinburgh so was I but down here no chance. Booked solid at weekends with 2hrs slots observed. Small towns without a lot of pubs will be similar

[vikingTON]

1 minute ago, The Master said:

No, I understand that no matter how loudly any of us shout, we won’t be listened to. That’s been abundantly clear for a long time now  

If having to wear a mask in shops and on public transport is the price for bigger crowds and pubs opening more or less as normal, then I’ll take it. 

It's not an either/or decision, so once again, you are a rube for thinking this way. 

[PedroMoutinho]

5 minutes ago, smpar said:

Did I hear her say pubs can stay open till midnight?

Yes- because we just don’t know that hospitals wouldn’t be overwhelmed if pubs were allowed to open until 1am

[smpar]

I've spontaneously been in a pub recently, for longer than 2 hours.
It's a change on paper only.

I’ve done that as well, but with every pub now operating as ‘normal’ but with far fewer people allowed in, I can see a lot of places having queues in busy cities and towns. Even some of the most ‘unpopular’ pubs near me have been fully booked during the weekend.

[vikingTON]

Just now, Billy Jean King said:

2 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

I've spontaneously been in a pub recently, for longer than 2 hours.
It's a change on paper only.

In Glasgow / Edinburgh so was I but down here no chance. Booked solid at weekends with 2hrs slots observed. Small towns without a lot of pubs will be similar

Utter nonsense. I was in Irvine and Dalry of all places on Saturday and could go from pub to pub, without any issues whatsoever. 

[effeffsee_the2nd]

What a fuckin pandering to the lovejoys there

[The Master]

Just now, virginton said:

It's not an either/or decision, so once again, you are a rube for thinking this way. 

I didn’t say it was an either/or decision.

[mizfit]

Can’t think of many pubs in Perth impacted by not being allowed to open beyond midnight as our council is still convinced it’s the 50’s.

[smpar]

Until you get to the door and every single spaced out table is taken up. Will be no standing at bars etc presumably?

I’d presume not if distancing is still a rule. Everywhere has a 1 meter rule now, so that nah increase the capacity for some but for many there’ll be no change.

[The Master]

1 minute ago, oaksoft said:

I'm afraid that it is looking very much like we'll never be free from mask wearing unless people are prepared to break the law.

We're already in July.

"For some time" strongly suggests not August either.

Then we're into September and I just don't see why she would remove them at that point.

Another year of this and she'll consider it unnecessary to ever remove them.

I think we are stuck with them permanently.

How the f**k did we allow it all to come to this?

I did say “for now”. That doesn’t mean I agree that it should be “for some time”. 

[RiG]

Easing of the WFH "requirement" (for want of a better word) postponed until we "move beyond Level 0" around 9 August.

[PedroMoutinho]

As expected we’ve got a level 0.5 in order to show that the SG ‘cares more’.

It’s a total nonsense- does anyone seriously think that pubs closing an hour early, 1m distancing outdoors ‘between groups of 15’ and no gradual return to the office will do anything other than appease the bedwetter brigade? 

[vikingTON]

Just now, The Master said:

I didn’t say it was an either/or decision.

 

4 minutes ago, The Master said:

If having to wear a mask in shops and on public transport is the price for bigger crowds and pubs opening more or less as normal, then I’ll take it. 

Either 'we have to wear masks' or we don't get 'bigger crowds and pubs opening more or less as normal'. That's the logical fallacy that you are making here because those two things are not mutually exclusive at all. 

 

[true_rover]

Did I hear her say pubs can stay open till midnight?

Nightclubs can open but only until midnight? [emoji23]

[AJF]

I'm tired of hearing phrases such as "these precautionary measures are based on clinical advice" when we are never provided with said clinical advice.