Infection problem lies with schools and not with the pub trade

PUBS and eating places closing early, new freedoms reduced again, why is everyone deliberately ignoring the obvious elephant in the room?

I’ve said all along that as soon as all the children were back at school we would be in trouble again, and I’ve been proved right.

Before people squawk about students, they went back about three weeks after the schools.

Pubs have been open since July. Shops have safely opened and we have gradually had more personal freedom yet, apart from a few odd pockets in areas of housing with multiple occupancy, the rates of infection and death, continued to steadily fall, until the schools went back.

Children can catch it and spread it without showing any symptoms. Some of the people in power say the hospitality sector is at fault, but the customers and owners of these places may have school-age children who are the unknowing source.

The latest sudden surge is since the 10pm eating and drinking curfew. We have witnessed crowds inside and outside the doors of places, as the owners have to pay large fines, or worse, if everyone is not out on the dot of 10pm.

Also people are ordering two or three pints at once and drinking

much faster to get in their usual amount and this leads to brain fuzziness and forgetting the rules.

However, the greatest danger is from the so-called class and year bubbles in schools. Each bubble has children from numerous households. They sit in enclosed rooms for hours at a time and days on end, breathing in bugs from all the different households and take them home to their families.

Multiply this by the hundreds and thousands of classes in the country and it is a recipe for it to spread like wildfire. Unless a solution is quickly found there is no hope for any of us.

L Hadman, Aston-on-trent