Reply to: The Official Pandemic Pub/Bar/Restaurant Experience thread

[scooterscot]

You do realise they send people out specially to find the crowded pubs to sensationalise it right? And pick camera angles that make it look as bad as possible.

Apparently it was pretty quiet round here.

Are you saying the papers are deceiving me?!

[ravenshaw]

Reports and pics from my brother at the Ferryboat Inn at Helford Passage suggest all having a good time whilst observing the social distancing rules.

Inneresting.

There are some lovely places round the Helford River. The Ferryboat is one of my favourites on a nice day out of season.

[Excursion UK]

Well that did not take long -

Coronavirus: Pubs close after positive tests - BBC News

Thanks to names taken in pubs it should not be a problem (in theory) to find out soon effects of spread, which would become scientific reason to shut them down again...

No way! The Lighthouse in Burnham on Sea...

Maurice and Bren do a fantastic carvery and my missus loves their karaoke evenings. I hope they're back up and running again soon.

[SueEllen]

Ah so they didn't ask for ID? All licensed establishments are allowed to ask for proof of age which, for a lot of people, is something like a driver's license.

The pubs I normally go into don't ask for ID as they are on residential streets.

The ones that have a dance floor on/near high strreets ask for ID but only after about 7-8pm.

[AtW]

Opening in door eating/drinking is going to fail even before 2nd wave hits, now if the virus was supressed to a dozen of cases per day then maybe it would be feasible, but not with half a thousand detected with real number being at least 10 times more - AND tracing can't reach like 20% of people who tested positive, wtf!

[SueEllen]

Closing the pub is really only to make sure the staff are ok, rather than because there's something inherently wrong with the venue. I heard about it on the radio this morning and it was only several minutes into the piece that they explained this.

Indeed they closed a takeaway for a deep clean as one of their drivers went into the pub kitchen. The takeaway is opening up on Friday.

[ladymuck]

Well that did not take long -

Coronavirus: Pubs close after positive tests - BBC News

Thanks to names taken in pubs it should not be a problem (in theory) to find out soon effects of spread, which would become scientific reason to shut them down again...

Closing the pub is really only to make sure the staff are ok, rather than because there's something inherently wrong with the venue. I heard about it on the radio this morning and it was only several minutes into the piece that they explained this.

[ladymuck]

Yeah but I gave my name as Mrs Smith and gave the address of the pimp I know who lives down the road...

(In reality I didn't go out but you could easily lie.)

Ah so they didn't ask for ID? All licensed establishments are allowed to ask for proof of age which, for a lot of people, is something like a driver's license.

[SueEllen]

Well that did not take long -

Coronavirus: Pubs close after positive tests - BBC News

Thanks to names taken in pubs it should not be a problem (in theory) to find out soon effects of spread, which would become scientific reason to shut them down again...

Yeah but I gave my name as Mrs Smith and gave the address of the pimp I know who lives down the road...

(In reality I didn't go out but you could easily lie.)

[AtW]

Well that did not take long -

Coronavirus: Pubs close after positive tests - BBC News

Thanks to names taken in pubs it should not be a problem (in theory) to find out soon effects of spread, which would become scientific reason to shut them down again...

[Paralytic]

Was straight out to pub on Saturday. You get an allocated table, so went for an all day bender.
Massive session, ten pints, shots, got a lap dance off the girl on the next table but her husband kicked off, so got into a massive fight. Police called, banged up in a cell for three hours, then headed off. Bumped into the husband again, bit of fisticuffs and we both landed up in A&E at the local hospital. That was crap as they were all masked up, so I stripped off, ran down the maternity ward pushing all the cribs, before vomitting in one of the staff kitchens.

All in all, it was like nothing had changed.

Chart, or it never happened.

[The Tartan Cottage]

Anybody brave enough ventured out?

Post your reports from the frontlines here

Best report will get you slightly used FFP99 mask

Reports and pics from my brother at the Ferryboat Inn at Helford Passage suggest all having a good time whilst observing the social distancing rules.

[d000hg]

Was straight out to pub on Saturday. You get an allocated table, so went for an all day bender.
Massive session, ten pints, shots, got a lap dance off the girl on the next table but her husband kicked off, so got into a massive fight. Police called, banged up in a cell for three hours, then headed off. Bumped into the husband again, bit of fisticuffs and we both landed up in A&E at the local hospital. That was crap as they were all masked up, so I stripped off, ran down the maternity ward pushing all the cribs, before vomitting in one of the staff kitchens.

All in all, it was like nothing had changed.

Never knew you lived on the Wirral. Coronavirus: Rock Ferry pub shuts over 'lack of social distancing' - BBC News

[MarillionFan]

Anybody brave enough ventured out?

Post your reports from the frontlines here

Best report will get you slightly used FFP99 mask

Was straight out to pub on Saturday. You get an allocated table, so went for an all day bender.
Massive session, ten pints, shots, got a lap dance off the girl on the next table but her husband kicked off, so got into a massive fight. Police called, banged up in a cell for three hours, then headed off. Bumped into the husband again, bit of fisticuffs and we both landed up in A&E at the local hospital. That was crap as they were all masked up, so I stripped off, ran down the maternity ward pushing all the cribs, before vomitting in one of the staff kitchens.

All in all, it was like nothing had changed.

[AtW]

I'm craving a pint in a pub, but this virus is too sobering to risk it

Comments there are like reading Trumpian site