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AIBU?

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Eat Out To Spread The Virus About

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verdantverdure · 04/03/2023 08:52

AIBU to think that it was basic common sense to know in advance that Rishi Sunak's Eat Out To Help Out short term boost for the economy would begin the covid second wave and kill tens of thousands of people in the U.K.?

YABU Who knew that packing out restaurants during an airborne pandemic would lead to infections and deaths?

YANBU Eat Out To Help Out was obviously going to cost British lives.

OP posts:

JenniferBooth · 04/03/2023 16:22

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/customers-seen-fleeing-salon-raided-19715031

ancientgran · 04/03/2023 16:22

TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl · 04/03/2023 14:42

It WAS harmless for most. The percentage of people who died is still low. Much like flu

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It is hard to be definite about that. I've had it twice, the first time I had no symptoms and just found out from a routine test. Second time I was very ill, GP wanted to send me to hospital but I didn't want to go, was flat out for 8 weeks and over a year later I'm still not 100%. I think lots of people think they are safe as they got it mildly so it will always be like that. No one got it milder than I did but it didn't mean a thing when I got it again.

Vegrocks · 04/03/2023 16:22

JenniferBooth · 04/03/2023 16:18

@Vegrocks It doesnt affect me normally but in this case it did because it showed there was one rule for them and one for us and that we wernt all in it together.

metro.co.uk/2021/01/07/priyanka-chopra-flouts-lockdown-rules-at-josh-wood-hair-salon-13866536/

Loads of people flouted
including me
including many mumsnetters

difference was - we weren’t photographed and sent to papers

and so we weren’t visited and warned by police (well the vast majority of us weren’t!)

Officers attended and the owner of the salon was given a verbal reminder of the important need to comply with all regulations regarding Covid-19 and signposted to other sources of advice.

ps celeb? Never heard of her before! 😂

BeyondMyWits · 04/03/2023 16:23

Known as fill your gob to save a job round here. Upside was, it worked.

Of course it helped spread covid around in areas where it was rampant. Bit of a downside.

Nothing is ever as cut and dried as good thing/bad thing.

CremeEggQueen · 04/03/2023 16:24

Topseyt123 · 04/03/2023 16:14

We liked Eat Out to Help Out and used it several times even though I am clinically vulnerable. It was a scheme that was much needed by the hospitality industry at the time and it was nice to see people out enjoying themselves.

To the best of my knowledge nobody held a gun to anyone's head and forced them to go to a restaurant.

I've mixed feelings about lockdowns. I could see the necessity at the start of the first one, but by subsequent ones it was becoming ridiculous, especially as the vaccine rollout gathered pace. Yes, I DO know that the vaccines don't completely stop Covid, just like they don't 100% stop other diseases. We'd also learned a lot about how best to treat Covid by then too.

My negative view of lockdown is almost certainly coloured by my Dad's death and funeral in the second one. He died alone in hospital (and it wasn't Covid related) and we had a lockdown funeral for him. I broke bent a few lockdown rules as he became ill because it was clear that if I hadn't I would never have seen him alive again.

I've no qualms at all about Eat Out to Help Out.

I'm so sorry for your loss, I can't imagine how that must have felt not being able to be with him like that 💐💐

Whydoitry · 04/03/2023 16:44

I always thought it was stupid to lockdown, only to then pay for people to eat out!

Having said that, I was psychologically very nervous about going out at all and the Eat Out scheme did entice me to a restaurant which took social distancing very seriously and did make me feel more confident in social situations again.

SapphireSeptember · 04/03/2023 18:30

I loved it when it briefly felt normal. The supermarket café I used to work in was still closed, so I nipped out to Nero's on my lunch break, sat at a table (this was before masks were mandatory) and it felt lovely. Then things went loopy again.

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