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geordiegirl Sep 2020 10:14am, 22 Sep 2020 11,531 posts	0 geordiegirl All places we’ve been too (not many in honesty) has been the same. Abiding by the rules some already imposed shorter hours, maximum stays so hopefully they will continue to prosper.
larkim Sep 2020 10:18am, 22 Sep 2020 12,037 posts	0 larkim The problem is that whatever the rules are, people find ways of justifying bending them. Some slightly, some more significantly. Unless they've got solid evidence I can't see that 10pm closure and a bit of a return to WFH is going to make anything other than a mild dent in the growth, but I'm no scientist. Surely if you go to the pub at 8pm and leave at 10pm you've likely caught whatever you're likely to catch compared to staying until 11pm? I appreciate we've got to find the right levers, and clearly socialising is the biggest issue at the moment, but there's not a huge amount of confidence in my belly that whatever gets announced today will make the slightest bit of meaningful difference.
Bazoaxe Sep 2020 10:20am, 22 Sep 2020 17,614 posts	0 Bazoaxe Just heard that my Niece is unwell with suspected Covid. She is in halls at Uni and there were a couple of reported cases there at the tail end of last week
fetcheveryone Sep 2020 10:20am, 22 Sep 2020 24,721 posts	0 fetcheveryone I suppose the possibility exists that by leaving the pub at 10pm, you're doing so at that sweet spot where you're able to discern the difference between complete strangers and your beshtesht friends.
DocM Sep 2020 10:25am, 22 Sep 2020 37,019 posts	0 DocM sorry to hear that Baz the unis really seem like a breeding ground for Covid. I agree with you Larkim I want to see something that will make a proper difference, and im not seeing it yet
Dvorak Sep 2020 10:27am, 22 Sep 2020 20,785 posts	0 Dvorak On one hand, what Fetch wrote. The issue does not seem to be ordinary pubs and restaurants, but nighttime entertainment venues. And especially with the Unis going back ... On the other, start at five, you can be absolutely rat-arsed by eight. After 10pm, the police can leave the town centres and going round breaking up the house parties instead.
Spideog Sep 2020 10:39am, 22 Sep 2020 583 posts	0 Spideog Numbers will go up amongst uni students, but if they keep away from their lecturers, they are a relatively closed community if all living in halls rather than at home. There will obviously be some cases of students getting very ill and dying, but the real risk is when they head back home in December and start mixing with their families again and from there it spreads back through older and more at risk parts of the population. Keep the students to socialising in student bars and keep them out of the pubs in the towns would do more to limit the spread to vulnerable parts of the community.
Non-runner Sep 2020 10:42am, 22 Sep 2020 707 posts	0 Non-runner There seems to be a lot of frustration among some teenagers / young adults in our town. Almost every night some damage - community flowerbeds are ripped up, beer bottles smashed, public footpath posts broken, goalposts broken... maybe they were looking forward to starting work, apprenticeships, gap years, finding partners, going on holiday or clubbing. Maybe their county lines supplies of weed have been cut off. I have some sympathy with them but it’s getting worse not better.
DeeGee Sep 2020 10:49am, 22 Sep 2020 19,792 posts	0 DeeGee In my experience running round my town, the weed supplies are definitely still getting through, NR.
Bazoaxe Sep 2020 10:51am, 22 Sep 2020 17,615 posts	0 Bazoaxe To be honest based on what my kids have seen on social media it was only a matter of time As she had been socialising all summer. She had been due to come home for MiL birthday this weekend but clearly won’t be and we had already cancelled. Hopefully she recovers soon.