David Coffer: Threats and Collateral damage

To paraphrase Mr Spock of Star Trek when he landed on a strange planet, “there’s life, but not as we know it”. Undoubtedly, that phrase will ring true in the post-Covid-19 world. I have been comprehensively immersed in the leisure industry for 55 years as a specialist property adviser, operator and property investor. The coronavirus has posed more threat and collateral damage by far in the last three months than in all of my encounters with eight recessions, banking collapses and statutory changes such as The Counter Inflation Act, combined, in my career thus far.