Barnsley expected to remain in Tier 3

The more I read, and not just on here about "locking down" The more I think what are people actually scared of?

Is it the fear of dying or they have become that institutionalised, the fear of living?

 

During my time in posting on this board I've had many debates with you sometumes agreeing sometimes not. But since the 1st lock down you've been bang on and echoed my thoughts on the covid situation

 

Maybe approach one of the mental health outreach teams if your mental health is pushing you to break the law. Your GP can refer you.

 

There is literally zero chance. Still let people starve so folks can have a Weatherspoons ‘meal’

 

There's nowhere near enough compliance with COVID regs in pubs. If you've got a spare hour or two Google it. I don't wander around a supermarket with impaired faculties either and I'm only in there a fraction of the time.

 

How much compliance is there in Tesco?

 

I've hardly had any reason to criticise, but then again I'm in there at 11pm and have the store virtually to myself.

 

And despite the time was someone stood on the door ensuring that there weren't too many people in? Was there anyone way system in place? Had aisles been removed to create a 2 metre distance? Hand sanitizer at the checkouts?

The answer to all the above is no. And yet it's pubs and restaurants offering sit down pre booked meals that are the issue?

 

Yet infections halved when pubs were taken completely out of the equation during the second national lockdown.

 

You do a fantastic job of avoiding the actual things said in a post. You won't acknowledge the lack of measures in supermarkets and just deflect every time.

Did infections half when pics were taken out of the equation or when students were locked down and when the clothes shops etc were closed?

 

Who does cover everything in someone's post. I picked up on your last sentence. If you really want an answer, the Tesco I go into does have someone on the door, even at 11pm. There's also a hand sanitizer station at the entrance/exit. They've stopped the one way thing and I don't really understand the significance of removing aisles. Look mate. I don't think pubs should be open and you do. We aren't going to change each other's minds. There's no need for the bolshy replies.

 

I’m sure Chris Whitty will write a book about it but it’s not one I’d care to read. Bacteria is all around us in our everyday lives, are we to shun any kind of mixing and socialising moving forward?
I don’t really fancy just existing in my own little sanitised bubble for the rest of my days. I’ve no doubt that even though a vaccine is out the doom mongers will still be out advocating some kind of lockdown restrictions. We all have our opinions but to me it’s bonkers.

 

Well pontyender can't go back now can he. A chef who coughs on his dinner and doesn't clean the dishes before he serves the food isn't going to do it in 10 years either which isn't safe at all. It's not safe for him to ever eat out again sadly.

 

You must go in a different Tesco to the two I've been in. Stairfoot doesn't and neither does Wath.
There's an unnmanned bottle of spray on a table but hardly anyone uses it
They abandoned one way meaning mixing is actively encouraged.
I don't understand why you don't understand the significance of removing aisles or bays to create more open space. Do you really not see the benefit of wider aisles or larger areas in front of the checkouts?

 

I’m a Stairfoot Tesco regular, and you are quite right that all the safe procedures now seem to be very relaxed. You should try Aldi, on a Sunday, though. It’s busier than the Oakwell toilets at half time.
Also, your stance on pubs/ restaurants reopening, I agree with. Folk just view it from different angles. The hospitality industry is on its knees and needs to get back on its feet. All pubs are suffering due to images of students in university cities cramming pubs and giving the impression that’s how ALL pubs are all the time, and it just isn’t.
My local, Ardsley Club, went members only, sign in, take a (sanitised) seat and table, have your order taken at the table, brought over to you and pay contactless. Absolutely safe. Far safer than Aldi, and a million miles away from the scenes seen in Newcastle, for example.

 

Correct. There are people sat on their backsides watching sensationalist news programs whilst scared shitless because they've swallowed up every lie told to them by the disgraced 'experts' whitty and valance. They are unable to tell the difference between a pub with socially distanced tables and a town centre bar rammed to the rafters with students. In reality they're no closer linked than a corner shop and debehnhams are and yet they're both treated the same whilst retail sector was quite clearly split and treated differently.

Speaking of debehnhams. If they don't cause a spike in cases in meadowhall then I don't know what will. Like the deck of the Titanic in there

 

To be fair Id rather be in a packed bar surrounded by attractive young women with perky boobs and peachy arses than a sterile WMC.



And its still a safer environment statisically than a supermarket. A care home. A hospital. Your own home (where most infections of any respitory ailment happens).

 

What's the point of a pub like that though? Pubs are for socialising surely? Hopefully now we've got the vaccine we can go back to doing that. I

 

You don't see any point in sitting at a table eating and drinking with a couple of friends?

 

Not my idea of a pub no.