Pub Queues
During the Covid pandemic the hospitality industry was subject to a series of idiotic nonsensical restrictions that at the time the majority of politicians, journalists, commentators and the public vigorously supported. I would credit most of the restrictions to be well intentioned but ultimately governed by ignorance and fear with a significant degree of group think. Not mixing, touching or breathing on each other being a governing principle. Expressing scepticism to the obviously more ridiculous elements would be met with the view that you were accepting the death of the vulnerable just to get a pint or make a quid you disgraceful person you. Nevertheless I stuck to it. At the time I was the main support for elderly parents and fully understand the caution and the anger towards the incautious that ultimately stiffed the likes of Boris Johnson. A feature of the era was people keeping their distance from each other. People swerved each other when passing in the street. Shops had forma...