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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Agreed. The restrictions need to be eased after the second three-week review. Schools will have to re-open, and so will shops and other businesses, who should be told to introduce social distancing policies as far as possible. Additionally, people need to get out for leisure purposes as frequently as they wish, but gatherings should continue to be prohibited for the time being.
Sadly, I can't see pubs, clubs and restaurants being allowed to open at the second review. That could see a few go under.
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Nonsense. We need more Government support for small businesses to get coronavirus right, get it wrong and we just get more lockdowns and greater economic impact for longer.
Have you been in a school classroom lately? No way to impose social distancing or ensuring adequate hygiene with a shared bathroom facilities. Let alone hundreds of kids pushing through corridors every hour or so to their next lesson in high schools.
Schools aren’t going back til September. The sooner the Coronavirus deniers accept that lockdown is here to stay and stop dangling pseudoscience around as a justification the better.
Businesses going under presents an opportunity though - oversupply of retail space should see the price fall, and business rates will reduce to encourage this. Time to make the Amazons of this world pay their fair share in taxes and get a better balance.