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WETHERSPOONS

Pub chain JD Wetherspoon outlined plans for reopening hundreds of pubs once lockdown is eased.

@Kazpsychi2 said: “So now pubs will be more like badly run hospitals, hand sanitiser on walls, screens between tables, PPE, floor markings, and ordering by app... what if you are elderly and don’t have a smart phone? Utter madness.”

@chloarchi wrote: “Bad vibes from anyone going back to ‘spoons after the way Tim Martin has treated his staff.”

@Otto_english said: “Easy to snipe at Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin - but his business employs a lot of very good people on low wages who are relying on his business surviving. I wish those people nothing but good.”

@nikchaddy2 replied: “Me too. I hope they’re all able to find work elsewhere so they don’t have to work for him.”

@sydblotn11 said: “Tragically many local pubs will go the wall whereas Wetherspoons’ vast, soulless drinking warehouses will probably survive.”

@Davecampaigns added: “If Martin is the problem the simpler solution is for the board of Wetherspoons to get rid of him. They had a large drop in profits prelockdown. He obviously isn’t doing a good job. That’s the way to protect their employees.”

@Southernpansy said: “He owns about 40% of the shares. He is unlikely to be shifted by anything short of cataclysmic misconduct.”

COVID-19

Seriously ill Covid-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were more likely to die or develop dangerous heart arrhythmias, according to a study in medical journal The Lancet.

@PETEAAH asked: “Who is studying patients who test positive but have not been hospitalized? If the value of the drug is in slowing viral replication and reducing inflammatory response, hasn’t that ship sailed by the time patients are hospitalised?”

@Murray_nyc said: “The most disturbing part is that the president of the USA will dismiss these findings as ‘fake news” & continue on his merry (crazed) way promoting his latest obsession, HCQ.”

@Emberstudio1 sighed: “Getting really tired of this anti-hydroxychloroquine propaganda for no better reason than ‘orange man bad’.”