None of the guidelines are law?

[Paddingtonthebear]

Is this correct? It will be against the law to have groups of more than 30 people, and against the law for businesses to reopen if they have been instructed to remain closed (beauty salons, gyms etc). But other than that the guidelines for businesses are just advice not actual law. So pubs for example have no actual legal requirement to provide table service only, to ask for customer contact details or to enforce any social distancing or covid related modifications when they reopen on 4th July?

It was initially aimed at the post above about having groups of 30 allowed now.

Schools shut in a couple of weeks anyway. After 4th July some schools will only have one week left.

Don't understand why pubs need to wait until after September.

My dd would have two weeks left of term and would love to go back and say goodbye to her class and staff before moving schools. The transition won’t be easy but her cohort seem to have been forgotten about. The new school are doing their best but it’s so hard prepping them all for September.

"So the pubs publicly saying they are not going to follow the guidelines, will they be ok"

Probably not and I hope not.

A few pubs have already lost licences for opening up during lockdown and having 'private lock-ins'

One case I read had 100 people. Was raised and then opened again next evening.

Hopefully as someone said above - the public will have common sense to vote with their feet if places don't open securely.

@WinnieTheW0rm

You really think that the risk factors for pubs are the same as for schools?

No. Pubs are even worse. Let’s pack people into a place and expect them to follow social distancing guidelines while steadily upping their intake of a drug that removes all their inhibitions.

They’re being implicated in mass outbreaks in the US right now.

@GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat

And yet we still can’t send our children to school...

This

The reason is probably because the pubs want to open so they can make money. Whereas the teaching unions want to do everything in their power to keep those pesky kids at home. Our head has even decided to start summer holidays a week earlier than usual to “give those teachers a break”!!
And I would say the risk of 30 kids in a classroom is less than 30 drunk people who forget to socially distance as soon as they have had a few pints, yes

Pubs bring in a lot of tax revenue