How Will Pubs Open?

[sheffield hatter]

Despite being the most regulated and enforced covid-aware indoor environment (vs say, transport, supermarkets) several reports are appearing along the lines of:
Boris considers bold move to open pubs and restaurants in April with booze BAN.
I think ob will be rolling out the neo-pro references in due course. And with good reason if wet-led pubs are left to just go to the wall...
And in restaurants, everyone will be sat down, table-distanced - what the hell does it matter if diners have wine with a meal or not??

Oh, good grief!

The headlines could be the Govt floating the idea to see how much resistance there might be, that's a common trick of this lot, possibly something from Cummings' tool box. They have also put out an extreme position so that a less vicious course of action looks reasonable.

I could believe either of those. They've done this sort of thing many times before. It's like the whole country is being made to take part in a Tory party focus group.

I really can't take these reports seriously....
But then with this tin pot government , who knows.

Indeed.

On the other hand it could be lazy journalism.

That's probably the best we can hope for.