I think there has been a lot of dialogue since lockdown one and in terms of business owners/owners of certain businesses engineering decisions, resentment from small shops against supermarkets, which is an historical battle before covid, but amplified during it and also those in the pub game when they were open were split between purely a wet pub and those that did the all important food criteria. To be honest and after seeing plenty of non essential places open, including chip shops, news agents etc, rightly or wrongly i'm not passing comment on peoples livelihoods,i think the fishing one could cause equal splits.
In lockdown one a mate of mine kept putting out that you can do this (picture of rammed supermarket) but you can't do this (picture of a loan angler fishing). I felt at the time in lockdown one, that when you stop and think about it, there is fishing in terms of the potential for a fishery to be rammed-car parks, pegs on the purpose built type venue, and there is fishing where i could be much safer being that lone angler on say a river bank.
This is the deepest i have thought about it for some time and actually wished i hadn't because trying to understand much of this does my nut in, which doesn't mean i am blase about it, quite the opposite, i follow the rules, but the tier system was the cherry on the cake for me to just say to the Mrs, just analyse it all please and let me know what i can and can't do. To this day i haven't understood why i couldn't have gone to a bleak and barren Trent-conditions and in the lack of people. Nottingham town centre or something then granted, but the two are worlds apart.