New infections - 100000 per day?

I wonder Daisymae if lifting all restrictions so quickly might actually damage the hospitality sector further with people not going out. I know we need to get back to some kind of ‘normality’ eventually but the rising number of infections and deaths is very worrying. I think we still need to keep masks for inside plus the social distancing rule.

Yes Gwynneth I totally agree with you. I understand the impact of spacing on restaurants’ profits but the current restrictions are better for them than another total lockdown. Have already posted on another thread how much the relaxation of restrictions at present alarms me so won’t repeat myself and invite brick chucking!

Gwyneth - that's exactly my point. I certainly would not feel comfortable. Plus there's going to be high levels of sickness absence.

Last Friday I went to our local Italian restaurant with two friends. I felt very comfortable and had a lovely time. Tables were well distanced and limited to six, staff wore masks and customers had to wear a mask if they left their table. It was great to have the privacy of tables not placed so close together as is so often the case in restaurants. After the 19 July with all the current rules ending and the infection rate rising I don’t think I will be going out to eat again for a while. Do others feel the same?

We will not change our behaviour, we will still not go out unless we have to and we will wear masks inside. I find it very worrying. Yesterday I spoke to relatives who live in Devon, they are elderly, their daughter is a very experienced nurse, her husband has health issues and they have three teenage children. The parents have had their vaccine, so has their daughter, husband and one of the children. The daughter, husband and children have all contracted the latest strain of the virus in spite of some of them being fully vaccinated and they are all having to self isolate. We just hope that the vaccine does give a degree of protection.

I'm with you Marydoll

This won't change my previous behaviour, I will continue to be extremely careful.
In fact the thought of that level of contagion worries me greatly!