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Spent the last day and a bit in Cromer. It was all great. Hotel was well set up. Drinking in the car park. Everyone was being sensible.

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D Walker said:
Yep. I won’t be eating out for a while. My daughter has in a few places and she actually reckons Weatherspoons is one of the best. Not for the food obviously, but the way they are set up and using the app etc. Distancing not a problem. Sons girlfriend works in local Thai Place. She said it was better during lockdown when she was just delivering as people with this 50% thing are just a pain in ****. Turning up without booking etc. And then getting arsey.
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I went into the best Indian takeaway in town , their only concession to CV19 was to pull one of the sofas in front of the counter , only the sofa is 6ft wide and the counter 12ft so everybody who came in stood to the side of it

I waited outside when it became apparent they had no system in place at all because there must've been 15 people waiting for orders in a 20ft x 12ft area , this was about 2 months ago , again not been back.

I've been to the odeon luxe this week , it's deserted , Friday night slasher movie, usually full of teenagers , i actually forgot it was Friday but as id booked the ticket thought ill go and see how busy it was

4 people in there , on a Friday night
 
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Wack61 said:
I went into the best Indian takeaway in town , their only concession to CV19 was to pull one of the sofas in front of the counter , only the sofa is 6ft wide and the counter 12ft so everybody who came in stood to the side of it

I waited outside when it became apparent they had no system in place at all because there must've been 15 people waiting for orders in a 20ft x 12ft area , this was about 2 months ago , again not been back.

I've been to the odeon luxe this week , it's deserted , Friday night slasher movie, usually full of teenagers , i actually forgot it was Friday but as id booked the ticket thought ill go and see how busy it was

4 people in there , on a Friday night
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Yeah I know what you mean. We ordered Italian takeaway from a business we have been using 1 every week/ 2 weeks all the way thru. Normally a restaurant we’ve used a lot in normal times. We went to pick our takeaway up and there is no way I would eat in there in the current climate. There were people all over. I’m not risk averse but the potential exposure was too much. It’s just daft. Keep the distance and keep your business open.
 
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This is exactly what is happening in front of our eyes on our watch and we are just letting it happen.

Small businesses reducing to little or none. Large corporates take over the world with no competition. It is planned and been happening with each and every bit of legislation and regulation. It has been slowly eroding competion, choice and small business in general.

Minimum wage legislation, workers rights, security regulation. All this stuff we were told was to protect the worker, their rights, security and pay also standards of living. In real terms it has gone down. The big banks and corporates can absorb all these additional costs due to massive profits. The small business can't and are being squeezed out.

I like most of what a US guy George Gammon thinks/says and find his YT channel very interesting.

Worth a watch:
 
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How does this happen ?
Surely morally wrong :(
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Greatest wealth transfer in history mate. Does no-one wonder why Main Street gets $600 a week if they apply successfully yet Wall St is given trillions.
Last week the Fed bought bonds of some of the biggest companies in the world.....they must have been down to their last trillions.
Joke. Fake.Corrupt.
Ponzi.
 
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Just my 2 pence, but artificially low interest rates drive consumption (cars, homes, big ticket items), is good for Big Banks, and drives investment into equities. Over here, most people don't own stocks themselves, but mutual funds, the retirement system is set up (via taxation) to encourage investment in these funds, with the result that fund managers control trillions of dollars worth of stocks with no investment of their own. This is a lot of power that we give to these folks to manipulate our economy, place their people on corporate boards, and ensure that politicians do their bidding. I do think the system, by design or by evolution, has become rigged against the common people.
 
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philw696 said:
You can't make this stuff up.
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Well it's not that we didn't know that there was going to be a risk in going overseas for holidays etc. while the pandemic was on. UKG have been warning us all for weeks now but everyone is quick to blame the UKG again when they get caught out. It's high time Joe public took responsibility for their own actions rather than looking to blame others. Rant over!
 
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