https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56608632 My local pub was OK when it was last allowed to open. Didn't have to go to the bar for drinks as they took the order and bought the drink to you. Same with meals. They just wanted your name and contact number. All seemed fine to me and I like being waited on! In sleepy Berkeley the pubs are civilised but I guess it is different in Bristol City centre... I really hope that the government doesn't try to over-complicate things that will just mean that people won't bother - helping to kill the pub trade and breweries. I wait with interest to see what will be fecked up. People may be worried about a hair cut but I am more worried about the beer!
The track & Trace app I didn't have a problem with for checking into pubs and restaurants. Though I disabled the active tracking aspect. What bugged me was that practically every pub seemed to require a different app for ordering food and drink from your table. Visit another and have to download, register and work out its foibles...
Going out and mixing socially? With sensible precautions I feel it is. In my case it tends to be the garden of a country pub after a walk with one of my walking groups, we've started groups of six again. Not sure if I'd be quite as comfortable in the courtyard of a town pub though. Life has to start again and with the vaccine roll-out, whilst admittedly that doesn't give 100% protection, there is some hope.
To me it sounds like a clear admission that the manual aspect test n trace didn’t work first time round. If only one in the party was signing in and then if covid was traced in that establishment obv the following up on each contact and the people they were with wasn’t happening?
I don’t think the problem is in the pubs itself, unfortunately alcohol and common sense do not mix. From what I have seen it’s the drunken idiots that want to crowd together, hug and snog each other when chucking out. Don’t get me started on football fans, they seem to think football gives the immunity from Covid.
The other thing is where does it end? Sure scanning a QR code using an app on your phone as you walk in the pub is easy enough but does it get to a point where the police turn up on your door step because the app registered you at being covid positive or requested to isolate but data shows you’ve been out the house/to the shops/to a pub?
For the police, this whole thing has been a gift. We are now a little bit further from being fined just for walking down your street - but not by much. And dumbos play right into their hands by protesting about it. Can't they see that this is exactly what they want?
My local is a Hall &Woodhouse pub and since the release from the first lock down, you have had to book your visit. Their system is easy, not intrusive with the information required and when you get to your table, there is a QR code to order and pay for food and drink at the table without having to log in to anything. For those of a certain age (me) and technophobes (me), staff will take your order at the table. In the time up to the second lock down, we have never felt that we couldn’t be bothered or disinclined and looked forward to eating there at least twice a month. Our local isn’t opening until May, which I can understand and we have our first visit booked and starred in the calendar. City pubs I can see the problem but for rural pubs like our local, TBTB are making a mountain out of a molehill, IMO of course. Andy
Its been said a million times before but with 'phones in our pockets, and paying with plastic, plus CCTV everywhere the only time a chip is needed is when visiting the seagull sanctuary.
I cannot read past the first 2 posts. making me sick. Sign fucking In!!!??? F that. I would have bought a burner phone and did a factory reset on my phone before any mandatory (was it mandatory?) tracking app was on there. Plugged it in and left to buy a burner phone... as for the pub, I would never use my own name. If the guy at the door said Rex i know it's you... I would say if you want my cash write down Boris Johnson or i will take 5 friends home to my house to drink. You are on the wrong path...
There could be lots of Boris's out drinking in future. Fitting that our PM is a pisshead. He will feel right at home in the commons when they open the bar. Well, only if there is skirt available....
I would think that smartphone manufacturers are starting to think, "what have I created?" When they can track you, know your shopping habits, as well as who you contact, whether by call, text, message, or email. I don't think that mine knows if I have been vaccinated yet. But it is not long before it will be your pass.
I have no intention of going into any pub or restaurant whilever those (to me) annoying covid laws would remain in place about wearing masks, keeping distances and not being able to go to the bar. If I want beer and food brought to me, i can have that in the house (if the wife is in a good mood) I go out for the interaction and social aspect. If that isn't happening, I wont be going. I am vaccinated stage 1, will be vaccinated stage 2 soon. So far my secret nano tracking chips are causing me no issues. Yes, Bill Gates does talk to me every day in my head, but its in a quiet voice. Yes, I can see through walls and start small fires by just thinking about it - no other side affects so far. I dont see what the issues are with anyone that can have vaccinations, not having them - I see it as just ridiculous refusing. Most will already be multi vaccinated against smallpox, measles, mumps etc, so why not Covid too? But then life is always made up of bright and less bright individuals I guess. You cannot cure stupid. If and when sanity ever returns, I will go back and start using pubs and restaurants again ...in the meantime I am saving lots of dosh by staying away. If they never open up? Well, they were closing hand over fist even before this dance started, a few more here and there in the grand scheme wont make a huge difference now. Maybe I just build a bar in the garden and operate my own rules and invite friends and family round. As it looks today, that is more likely than me returning to pubs over the summer.
