‘Eat Out To Help Out’ May have driven spike in Covid cases

[Worriedmum999]

You honestly couldn’t make it up! Anyone with an ounce of sense could see that it would. Now we’ve spent taxpayers money on half price Big Macs, encouraged obesity and will probably end up in another lockdown costing even more money if cases keep rising as they are. I swear my 8 year old could have made better decisions than this shiteshower!

EOHO wouldn't have been a problem if people had followed the guidance re social distancing etc. But yet again, the idiots couldn't follow pretty simple guidance and infection rates are on the up.

A better plan would have been to let them stick to takeaway and outdoor eating and use the EOTHO money to support them further.

How would the claims work? How to you assess which businesses got the funding and which didn’t? Continue to give furlough to the staff effected? How about the other businesses within the supply chain for each venue?

The evidence strongly suggests that the rise in cases is being driven within households and not within venues adhering to the guidelines.

Why is it always the working class McDonald's eaters getting the stick? Not the groups of middle class people on furlough throwing garden parties and going for a naice sit down meal out with friends? It's not either party, it's the clowns running the country who need are at fault, not the retail workers and cleaners and delivery drivers who have been the fucking glue that held this shit show together

We went on holiday and went out to eat 4 times. On one occasion I thought the tables were close, (although the people closest to us were family members we had met with previously) but the other times I felt were fairly spread out but only had to give info twice for t and t .

People blaming uni students too mine isn't even back in till next week most of them are trickling back now my daughters uni friends are planning on isolating as a house bubble same as they did during lockdown for the first 10 days everything is zoom or teams based and online at first even freshers week they have hardly any classroom based seminars at all

@Usergroundzero must universities aren't back yet...
Schools may be having some impact in the last day or two.

Rubbish it's been going off since beginning of August not end of August.

Now we’ve spent taxpayers money on half price Big Macs, encouraged obesity

Why do people always use mcdonalds as an example. Do you think it gives your argument more credence than if you mentioned half price vegan smoothies or half price beef wellington?

And "encouraging obesity" is laughable. Even if someone used the scheme every day it was available, that's 13 days in total. 13 Big Macs wont make you obese on their own.

@JadesRollerDisco

Why is it always the working class McDonald's eaters getting the stick? Not the groups of middle class people on furlough throwing garden parties and going for a naice sit down meal out with friends? It's not either party, it's the clowns running the country who need are at fault, not the retail workers and cleaners and delivery drivers who have been the fucking glue that held this shit show together

It's the same as the poster a few days ago insisting - without evidence - that pubs and salons should all be shut down. She didn't care for either so it didn't bother her at all that thousands might lose their jobs.

Similarly here I bet the OP can afford to take her clever 8 year old to naice restaurants so doesn't believe the masses should have subsidised Big Macs after being stuck in their poky homes for months.

@JadesRollerDisco

Why is it always the working class McDonald's eaters getting the stick? Not the groups of middle class people on furlough throwing garden parties and going for a naice sit down meal out with friends? It's not either party, it's the clowns running the country who need are at fault, not the retail workers and cleaners and delivery drivers who have been the fucking glue that held this shit show together

Because folk are falling for the divide and conquer propaganda.

@user1497207191

EOHO wouldn't have been a problem if people had followed the guidance re social distancing etc. But yet again, the idiots couldn't follow pretty simple guidance and infection rates are on the up.

If a class of children didn't understand the rules of the class, would you say it was the fault of the children being idiots or the teacher for not communicating the rules clearly?