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Hi All,
Last Friday I had another Covid-19 test at Kings Cross Hospital and on Saturday afternoon a doctor from NHS Tayside phoned me to advise that my test was negative. Thank goodness.
Again I took the opportunity to ask the doctor a couple of questions.
1. I asked her why we were being forced to wear face masks in public places, shops and on public transport when the face masks were no use as the Covid-19 was continuing to spread.
She replied that they knew that face masks did not help stop the spread of the virus and that is why people are being encouraged to maintain social distancing and continue to wash their hands.
2. Why were restaurants outwith the Central Belt of Scotland not allowed to serve an alcoholic drink when their customers were sitting at their table eating their lunch but they could drink an alcoholic drink outside.
The doctor replied that recent research had been carried out suggesting that people standing too close together in a public house and people having drinking parties in the back garden of their homes was the cause of the increase in the number of positive Covid-19 cases in Scotland.
I asked the doctor what that this research had to do with licensed restaurants in the Dundee area where their customers are not standing at the bar as it is table service only. I further added that a ‘one size fits all’ policy is no use and the whole thing is nuts!
That was the end of our conversation.

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Hi All,
Last Friday I had another Covid-19 test at Kings Cross Hospital and on Saturday afternoon a doctor from NHS Tayside phoned me to advise that my test was negative. Thank goodness.
Again I took the opportunity to ask the doctor a couple of questions.
1. I asked her why we were being forced to wear face masks in public places, shops and on public transport when the face masks were no use as the Covid-19 was continuing to spread.
She replied that they knew that face masks did not help stop the spread of the virus and that is why people are being encouraged to maintain social distancing and continue to wash their hands.
2. Why were restaurants outwith the Central Belt of Scotland not allowed to serve an alcoholic drink when their customers were sitting at their table eating their lunch but they could drink an alcoholic drink outside.
The doctor replied that recent research had been carried out suggesting that people standing too close together in a public house and people having drinking parties in the back garden of their homes was the cause of the increase in the number of positive Covid-19 cases in Scotland.
I asked the doctor what that this research had to do with licensed restaurants in the Dundee area where their customers are not standing at the bar as it is table service only. I further added that a ‘one size fits all’ policy is no use and the whole thing is nuts!
That was the end of our conversation.

I bet she was glad she phoned you