Why children should be banned from pubs - letter

This Star reader believes children should be banned from pubs to ensure establishments remain safe during the coronavirus pandemic. What do you think?
By Star letters
Published 13th Aug 2020, 11:46 BST
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So pubs may shut in order that children can attend school.

Why? Are the two related? Would it stop Covid-19? Think of the job losses.

As a recently widowed disabled lady, my local pub is a godsend, ensuring I can get a hot meal daily, a drink and a socially distanced chat.

This Star reader wants children to be banned from pubs to ensure establishments remain safe during the coronavirus pandemic. What do you think? (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)This Star reader wants children to be banned from pubs to ensure establishments remain safe during the coronavirus pandemic. What do you think? (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
This Star reader wants children to be banned from pubs to ensure establishments remain safe during the coronavirus pandemic. What do you think? (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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At first the families were well behaved with children staying seated, but now it has reverted to the norm with under 10s running around, play fighting, rolling on the floor, screaming, shouting and generally annoying other customers, quite apart from the risk of spreading the virus further to others.

Their parents ignore the rules printed on the menus and the staff who try to remind them of this are ignored too.

These same parents say school is not safe for their children.

Surely the best solution is to open schools and have a ban on children in pubs.

That way pubs could stay open, we could all stay safe and jobs will be saved.

Cath Sylvester

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