> The 2 metre rule will kill off all of the cultural institutions I hold dear.

So will people dying, far more effectively. What's your point?

> The recent video of a Wetherspoons pub with 2m distancing has people guffawing up and down the country.

And it's also insufficient. Not safe for hours in an enclosed space with strangers and recirculating air, not at 2 meters, or at 5 meters.

https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-t...

I don't think that "it raised a chuckle" is the devastating criticism of a deadly disease countermeasure that you seem to think it is. The virus won't care what you think.