Week Fifteen

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1. Some major game changing developments all the more obvious now that we are taking a weekly rather than daily overview of national and international news.

   Interesting to see how so much of the local public and business behaviour is being based on the last few week’s government increasingly less scientific and increasingly more supposedly economically beneficial announcements.

   People would rather believe what they want to hear than the actual evidence.

   Thankfully others are taking a more considered approach.

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2. The first day of July finds me feeling anxious. This is how it has been for a while now. We have been anticipating the announcement for hospitality businesses to re-open for a while and now the date of 4th July is here the idea of operating the pub within the reasonably stringent “one metre plus” guideines is daunting, not because we can’t implement the requirements but because we will not be able to control our environment once there are people outside our household involved. We need to be able to trust each other to do the right thing. We know of a lot of fellow pub business owners that will not be opening on Saturday because they believe it is not safe for their staff or their customers. Just within the last couple of days Leicester centre has been put on hard lockdown because of a spike in virus cases originating at a meat processing plant. We have been very fortunate in the West Country not to have had the infections the conurbations have experienced. But we in Devon, Cornwall and other holiday destinations will now be at risk from the virus being brought down by visitors.

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