This insanity is endless...

[sinkov]

Went out for lunch yesterday, all the precations in place, track and trace app, hand sanitiser, tables spaced apart, waitresses wearing masks and ordered not to take our masks off until we were seated. Four people arrived on the next table, took their masks off and put them on the table, the waitress brought them their menus and put their cutlery down on top of one of the masks. I've been eating out weekly since restaurants re-opened and felt perfectly safe and secure, yesterday for the first time I could see how the virus could be passed on in a restaurant, all thanks to more government stupidity and an obsession with face masks, forcing us to wear portable virus carriers to a restaurant table. You really couldn't make it up.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Went out for lunch yesterday, all the precations in place, track and trace app, hand sanitiser, tables spaced apart, waitresses wearing masks and ordered not to take our masks off until we were seated. Four people arrived on the next table, took their masks off and put them on the table, the waitress brought them their menus and put their cutlery down on top of one of the masks. I've been eating out weekly since restaurants re-opened and felt perfectly safe and secure, yesterday for the first time I could see how the virus could be passed on in a restaurant, all thanks to more government stupidity and an obsession with face masks, forcing us to wear portable virus carriers to a restaurant table. You really couldn't make it up.

Me and the father-in-law had business in Burnley, so we went for lunch at the "Stork" in Simonstone.

Exactly the same scenario you describe sinkov, except one of the "locals" was sat near the toilets on a stool, sans mask. Every time anyone wanted to use the toilet they had to be muzzled and walk past the guy on the stool. It was just so phucking farcical.

The lunatics really have taken over the asylum.