Corcaigh_the_Cat
Well-known member
What you say is very true, particularly cherry picking evidence to support your viewpoint. I have no axe to grind in the debate and looked at available evidence.
Evidence strongly points to pubs being safer than shops. Last summer through to autumn pubs were responsible for only 5% of reported outbreaks. And this in an environment where t&t was enforced which it is not in shops. Even assuming an agenda it is difficult to argue with maths.
The pubs I went into and actually stayed for a pint had decent measures in place, even then my club was hit with an outbreak when they were given the chance to hold a music night indoors It closed the place down and we lost a lot of revenue. The music, and most of the punters, had been in the beer garden with no problems for weeks before.
I'm not sure how, aside from those living alone and going nowhere else with no other human contact, could pin the blame for catching the disease on a supermarket.
I was working from home but one of the projects was kept in house, again the office was hit by Covid and they had to close.
I know both cases were personal experience for me but it points to the longer you're in a confined space the higher your chance of catching it. Something that many argue with and some have produced their own evidence for, but it flies in the face of logic. I'd love to see the full background behind any evidence to the contrary, not figures, anybody can throw them about, but what study went in to where the figures came from and what assumptions they made, also who is behind the study, where did the sponsorship for it come from and why.
I've worked in industry for most of my working life and there's a reason why you need a work permit for confined spaces, in the environment we're talking about homes, offices and pubs become the confined spaces, it's where we're must likely to transmit Covid. Supermarkets less so due to the fluidity of their customers and the size of the buildings plus the airflow. Homes and pubs generally don't have that, some offices do but they'd have to be of a decent sized floorspace.