Quote Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier View Post
I was with a publican and his wife in Little Lever today. The trials and tribulations the State apparatus is putting a decent couple through is nothing short of criminal. Their livelihood and business is now in "Critical" mode and is desperately short of major financial intervention.
A pub over this way BT had been opening safely since July, not a problem, social distancing rules implemented and just to make sure everyone was doubly safe the landlord spent £3K on a state of the art testing machine, no one with the virus would be eating in his restaurant. A few days after installing the machine we were in lockdown, when we come out of lockdown he's not allowed to re-open, just on the run in to Christmas when he can balance his books. The lockdown was supposed to make things better and there wasn't a problem before, but Boris and his mad scientists have treated him and his attempts to provide employment, good food and do the right thing with utter contempt.