did anyone go tat pub

Yes it's allowed. It's now only guidance not law.

 

Yep, but who takes notice of that anymore?

There's so much contradiction in the guidance that it makes no sense whatsoever. Young kids are allowed to go to school 5 days a week and play with 8 other kids and a couple of teachers but can't give their grandad a cuddle.

 

Hardly. Schools are supposed to be adhering to social distancing at all times to limit contact. That's far form the same as a kid hugging someone who being a grandparent in most cases means they are generally in a more at risk age group

 

Personally I feel anyone who went to the pub or those planning on going on holiday are idiots. We are seeing the R rate rising, outbreaks in other countries and we probably haven’t yet seen the biggest impact of all those idiots who went on BLM marches during a pandemic . Getting back to some normality is one thing but this next stage should have been delayed as imho we are going to just see it put us back on full lockdown

 

The thing is though Food Shopping is essential. Going and sitting for hours in a closed environment to have a drink and watch football is hardly essential. Also tbh the biggest issue isn't even with going to the pub but more the problems that the alcohol then causes. If you could trust people not to be idiots and only have 1 or 2 and you could also trust bar owners not to be money-grabbing bastards who will only do enough to prevent overconsumption to prevent them being legally liable then it would be fine but sadly those are things you can't rely on. Infact because some are having you book and only giving you a set length it perhaps encourages overconsumption of then the issues that come with that more. The push to extend opening times previously, after all, has had the idea that being open longer means people drink at a more steady pace so even though they may drink slightly more in total its spread over a longer period so the concentration in your system is lower

 

I was talking more the foreign Holidays tbh. There are some lomas of UK holidays (but not all) where you can be in a fair amount of control to limit you exposure but it’s very hard to limit exposure going through an airport with the security that has to be in place, getting on a plane and then flying to a country where you are then being taken to a hotel where you mix with people and either spend your days by a pool or on the beach where you are relying on others actually not being selfish bastards who as long as they are having fun they don’t care