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[QUOTE=Spinko;110922]The supposed uptick in 'cases' is just due to more random testing and the vast majority have no symptoms. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=sheffield hatter;110925]... the fact that the majority of people with the disease were asymptomatic shows what we're up against. People who thought they were in perfect health were actually spreading the virus to their family, friends and people down the pub.[/QUOTE] The other thing about asymptomatic spreaders is that if people routinely ignore the distancing regime and gather together in large crowds, the virus is going to get passed around more and more. The more contacts you meet, the more chance there is that you'll pick up a critical viral load, and the more chance there is that your immune system won't be able to deal with it. I'm not sure how many of the so-called random tests Spinko refers to have taken place - my understanding was that anyone with symptoms can request a test, but only medical staff were being routinely tested. If that is right, but those tests are stopped for whatever reason, then medical staff who have the virus but are not showing symptoms, instead of self-isolating, will be going back onto wards where they can pass on the virus to others. Up to now, I have been going back to pubs on the basis that people are being careful to keep themselves, other pub goers and pub workers safe. I haven't seen any careless pubgoers, apart from that one half-hour in Ramsbottom(#47), and even that wasn't exactly like a Roman orgy. Hopefully I'm going to the right sort of pubs. If those pubs start to be invaded by people who think it's all been a bit overblown and it's about time everyone had a really good night out, perhaps I'll need to think again.

[QUOTE=ROBCamra;110945] Would have been in Knaresborough on Monday, but OB advised that a couple of the pubs we wanted to visit, were still closed, despite their websites etc. [/QUOTE] However soon there should be a couple of new ones, one is currently a wine bar but will reopen with cask from Turning Point, the other has an planning application for a micropub in the station, right next to the Mitre (which should reopen this weekend).

The Halfway House, Brenchley, on what was supposed to be the national Cycle to Work day, but is now the national Cycle to Anywhere day, and where better to go?

Visited five pubs in two days and none have asked for contact details and are noticeably more slack on the sanitiser too. Then again, I am actively avoiding the pubs with ‘wait to be seated’ or vast lists of rules at the door, so my experience may not be representative.

Having your house knocked down to decontaminate it?