The only problem with this statement is that people (including me) said the same thing when restrictions were relaxed last summer. But the relaxing of restrictions does not seem to have caused the 'second wave', as months passed between relaxations and the uplift in cases.
Funny how the reopening of pubs last summer didn't lead to an instant surge eh?
That's not strictly true - they were re-opening after a holiday, not a lockdown. And the reversal was because of the case numbers in general, not specifically linked to schools.
One of the few cases where science has been applied by the government. Three weeks to allow any effect to show up, one week to analyse the figures, one week notice to businsses of changes.
Yes.
Why not? I'm a football fan, pre-Covid I was travelling up and down the country every other week and 9am would be considered a late start drinking-wise.
No it isn't. Safe to assume you're one of the aforementioned group and therefore letting your experience influence your mindset, rather than letting the actual figures speak for themself.
As someone who has lost loved ones to the disease, no it isn't. The virus is horrible but we can't just put society on hold forever. Because while I know people who have lost loved ones to the virus, I also know people who have had their lives destroyed by restrictions. Elderly relatives who have seen a year of isolation cause horrific cognitive decline. Neighbours who have lost everything after their workplaces collapsed. Friends who have ended up with addictions or mental health problems. We can't abandon those people, just because we're myopically focusing on the virus.
Calling it "pandering" when restrictions are trying to keep people safe from a deadly disease is offensive.
254 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported in the last 7 days. The average (2015-2019) number of deaths in that week from all causes is over 10,000. Do we ban smoking because it causes lung cancer? Or driving because people are killed in RTAs? We can not and will not keep pandering to people who seem quite happy to watch the country collapse as long as they collect 80% if their wage for sitting at home and watching Netflix.
When I use to go to Bavaria on holiday I would often come down for breakfast on a Sunday morning and find that the Stammtisch (regulars table) would be fully occupied by men drinking Wheat Beer. This would be the Früschoppen, or early session, something of an institution in Catholic Bavaria. I don't know if this was after, before or as a substitute for going to church.Best not mention that I've been know to have a couple of glasses of wine at 6am in an Leeds/Bradford lounge whilst waiting for an early morning flight to Spain, or once I was drinking a beer and eating pizza at 5am at LAX waiting for a flight to Hawai'i....
This concern doesn't tally with the earlier posts congratulating people for 9am drinking. Either we accept that "celebrating" the easing of some restrictions at breakfast is problematic and potentially alcoholism, or we just allow a free for all.
So this contradicts any concerns about alcoholism or problematic drinking. If you support free for all, you can't also be concerned about increased levels of drinking during necessary restrictions.
Except it's now less of a free for all in some ways. If you turn up regularly at the pub at 9am and get hammered, you're going to feel a fair amount of social pressure to stop. Whereas this doesn't exist if you're getting hammered at home and no-one knows.
I daresay this is somewhat deviating from the thread subject - a one-off early drinking session doth an alcoholic make
In case you haven't noticed everybody vulnerable in the UK has been vaccinated
Once, which does not give full protection.
