Pogue Mahone
The caf's Camus.
Of course there isn’t any hard evidence. How do you generate hard evidence? Implement a curfew on every second pub and compare incidence rates between them? There’s not much hard evidence behind lots of measures. I mean, there’s hard evidence that closing all pubs permanently brings transmission down but when it comes to finding ways for them to keep trading, despite the obvious risk to the lives of staff/customers (which is the reason curfews etc were implemented) all you can do is try and apply some common sense. Which is what he explains in that interview.Can't remember exactly who I had this debate with at the time in this thread. Some were disagreeing that closing the pubs 1hr earlier would make feck all difference to transmission.
Well...
"'No hard evidence' behind curfew"
https://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Ar...its-Patrick-Vallance-Coronavirus-restrictions
If the hospitality trade are insisting on hard evidence to support every decision then they should never have been allowed to reopen. Because we know for a fact that this increases transmission of the virus.