I have no idea why Gulliver keeps on blathering on about Brexit - in a roundabout way this is a thread about the absurd position we find ourselves in vis the lockdown and businesses failing, but since he's brought up the bus, let's examine what was actually plastered on it's side, which was two statements.
Statement 1 - We send the EU £350m a week.
Statement 2 - Let's fund our NHS instead.
People continue to wrongly think this means £350m a week will go to the NHS - either they're wilfully doing it, which is daft, or they're just a bit dim; the statements should be read separately - that's obvious, isn't it? It isn't saying the £350m a week will go to the NHS.
By the way, I voted remain, and continue to believe we'd be better off in than out - the difference is I accepted the result.
The failure of businesses reinforces my belief that lockdown should have been eased much much sooner (if it should have happened at all), and the current failures will increase significantly as soon as the taxpayer stops paying the wages of people - all the time they were being bailed out by the taxpayer, there was no reason why their employers would get rid; I totally get that, but it will end.
As I have said so many times that I'm boring myself now, this virus does not kill the young and the not so young if they are reasonably fit, but we appear to be going down the route of having these ridiculous restrictions until it's eliminated, which is absolutely bananas. Yes, we need to look after the old and the vulnerable, but everybody else, and for the sake of the country, we must return to normal normal (I can't abide people saying 'New' Normal).
The thing that I find really head-scratching is that some people (and there's some on this site) who want lockdown to continue - I will never get that if I live to be 100. Why? Why would they want this silliness to continue?
The knee jerk reactions just defy common sense - take the quarantining if you visit the Balearics or the Canaries, both of which from a Covid POV are statistically irrelevant, and therefore it was completely unwarranted; this has directly contributed to Hays Travel laying off a load of people.
Still, we're doing our bit to help the travel industry - Mrs DD is currently in Croatia on a short break with friends, and I'm off to Majorca in a few weeks...fortunately for me my work means I can quarantine at home (although whether I do....)