THE POSITIVE PROFESSOR
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EVERYWHERE I go the “substantial” meal rule is mocked and derided. I was at a small cafe over the weekend and got talking to the owner. Many people aren’t even aware of the rule and she says she has never been throwing away so much food. The bin was filling up with discarded plates of chips.
You can’t blame the owners. They’re in desperate need of any custom they can get, so serving some extra food is not a bad thing for them but it is a terrible waste.
Whether you think lockdowns are a good or a bad thing, we can all agree that we deserve to be treated with a bit more respect. Quite frankly, if you treat people like children then they will act like it. It’s been a massive problem since the start of this crisis and I think it has severely hampered our response.
People are far more savvy than some give us credit for.
I talk to a lot of different people in my job across the country and they get it. There is a real understanding that we all need to be careful and cautious, but some of these ludicrous rules set the whole approach back.
If so many nonsensical rules are imposed on us, then people will stop following the sensible rules.
With alcohol for example, if people want to drink, they will find a way. More often than not I imagine that means people will congregate in small flats with no rules applied.
There are some very smart people in government but being book- smart does not always equate to having some common sense. Some of the smartest people I know sometimes make no sense at all. The “substantial” meal rule is a fine example of that.
‘ If nonsensical rules are imposed, people will stop following sensible rules’