Around 17 million pints would be sold in pubs on Sunday during the Euro 2020 final if it wasn’t for the continuation of social distancing restrictions. Instead, nearly 13 million are expected to be sold, according to the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), as pubs across the country struggle to break even. The Guardian has the story.
Billed as the closest thing to being in the stadium itself, sales in bars or pubs showing sport are usually 200-300% higher on big match days during a normal year. However, capacity constraints mean although sales during Euro 2020 are up about 60% on match days, that is only in comparison with poor takings over the past
Covid-hit[lockdown-hit] year.“We are seeing an uplift in drinks sales on match days but because of capacity constraints it is nowhere near as much as it would usually be,” said Kate Nicholls, the Chief Executive of industry trade body U.K. Hospitality. As a rule, pubs were only taking 70% of their usual sales which was not enough to break even, she said.
In Norwich, Dawn Hopkins said her pub, the Rose Inn, will be full, although at the moment that means just 30 customers. “We are obviously fully booked,” she said. “I’ve been turning away people for weeks who want to watch the football but social distancing and the need to be seated limits our capacity. I think everybody’s grateful to be trading again but it’s still very difficult.”
The BBPA estimates nearly 13 million pints will be sold on Sunday, with 7.1 million during the match itself. That total would be nearer 17 million but for Covid restrictions, which mean venues are at 50-60% of normal capacity.
Fuller’s, a pub owner in London and the south-east, said most of its 209 venues were fully booked on Sunday but it could have “taken a lot more” were it not for the “disappointing” restrictions. “It has brought people together though and pubs are the next best thing to being there,” the company added.
Greg Mulholland, of the Campaign for Pubs organisation, said the Euros had brought welcome extra trade but pubs were struggling, with table service challenging and costly. Some landlords said they had been warned by licensing officials they could be fined if fans got carried away, and he hoped the authorities took a “common-sense approach”.
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Life is tough. We should be teaching youngsters mental resilience. Instead we scare them with the fear of a virus, we isolate them with lockdowns, steal their education by shutting schools, make them feel guilty for their white privilege, even confuse them over their gender. We tell them there will be a climate catastrophe, their jobs will be taken by AI, and in any case the housing ladder has been kicked away. Any wonder there is a range of mental disorders. This is a shameful way to treat the population, and children in particular.
Mental resilience makes for resistance against the government. The policy will always be fear and threats with some superficial material incentives thrown in to periodically appease the masses..
The mental disorders are in the adults propagating all this nonsense, and thereby transferring them to the young.
The same lockdown pressures will have been experienced by boys. How has this manifested?
I know of 2 teenage boys, both slightly autistic, both geeky types, who have had trouble going out of the house since lockdowns ended. They would both rather stay in their rooms, living in the virtual world. Their fear on going outside was palpable, apparently.
Increased suicide.
To be fair, that does remove the mentally unstable from the gene pool.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/verified-on-a-government-watchlist
An official United States list of baddies.
“why is the lesson the BBC draws always that Government needs to fund more services and never that maybe lockdown wasn’t such a smart move after all?”
More services is definitely not the answer, of course it does generate and reinforce a reliance on medical services which in turn leads to a dependence on Pharma products. For a lifetime of course. No matter how short that might be.
Win, win as the saying goes.
Look at this though. I find this seriously upsetting actually. I didn’t even know they were doing this. People dying in hospital but instead of allowing loved ones to sit with them for comfort in their final hours nurses tied gloves filled with warm water to the patients’ hands! I mean, WTAF has gone wrong in society if healthcare staff must stoop to this treatment, denying loved ones the chance to say goodbye to family members in person? I thought I couldn’t be any more ashamed of hospital staff but this has reached a new low. Absolutely unforgiveable.
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1670857716888371200?cxt=HHwWgIDQ1bWPirAuAAAA
https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/22/universal-basic-income-the-anti-human-agenda/
UBI. This is an interesting piece from a woman called Zoe Carter. She states that she is a writer but this article is so convoluted I would have to question her assertion. Anyways…
https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/21/a-global-digital-compact-un-promoting-censorship-social-credit-much-more/
Now this is from the brilliant Kit Knightly. Who can write.
“To sum up, the Digital Global Compact is a piece of globalist legislation serving the final aim of globalist policy: Control of all aspects of life, achieved by inserting a digital filter between people and reality.”
I love that final sentence.
It’s a veritable Dumpathon!
Don’t you feel a lot lighter for it though?
Well, if these articles reach a wider audience so much the better but they won’t get read in the NR. Kit Knightly is ALWAYS worth a read.
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1671915995676409857
Eating disorders, to a certain extent, involve loathing or disgust of your body. To this extent they have a similarity with believing you’re transgender or trapped in the wrong body. Wanting to control your body e.g. by chest binding or taking puberty blockers also gives young people control over something when lockdown removed their control over so much of their lives. I wonder if any academic is brave enough to try and estimate the extent to which lockdown is responsible for the alarming rise in the number of young people identifying as trans, although the woke nonsense that is taught to kids from an early age obviously plays a large part in this.
Not my problem, I was always against lockdowns.
I wonder how much the continual obsession with ‘obesity’ and reducing meat consumption to appease the weather gods, have contributed to dietary choices made by young people?