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Soyoure geting a discount on your food to get people back into the pubs and restaurants. Everyone loved it at the time, with a few scientists saying, are you sure? And then in retrospect, it looked like it was quite badly timed and may have helped the next wave of cover to spread. There was lots of calls for businesses to get quicker, cheaper access to loans. But then mabbe they lent too much money to too many businesses, didn't spend it wisely. The treasury had written off huge amounts of money in fraudulent payments just because it would cost more to chase up that money. In a way, this was an immensely wasteful programme but on the
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