"AK" wrote in message
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On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 3:31:44 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote:
The UK Government is begging Britons to open their wallets, so Boris
Johnson is doing the same.

His Government has started paying 50 per cent of diners' restaurant
bills to encourage them to spend, ahead of a feared second wave of
COVID-19.

A fellow diner, Poppy Green, said she never expected the Prime Minister
would be paying half her restaurant bill.

"Good on him! Who would have thought? A conservative prime minister.
[But] I agree. Well done, Boris."

The scheme is available at more than 76,000 restaurants in the UK and
diners don't need to do anything to get their discount.

Instead, the restaurant charges half-price and the Government has
promised to pay the balance within days.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-...fears/12518918

That's real nice of the UK government.

Its actually very stupid to be encouraging people
to eat out when even masks arent viable.

Sydney Australia has already seen three major outbreaks
of the virus once pubs and restaurants were allowed to
operate again. And that was without the govt actually
being stupid enough to encourage anyone to use them.