ADs predict wine and rioting before 6.30pm (but only if the sun's out)

[Dowser]

Over here peeps.

Not much sun today..so plenty of wine it is

@Willitneverend yes, I'm finding it really really hard up here today with all that guff.

@amicissimma our local pret closed down 2 years ago (still one of the many empty units on our main street, recently joined bu csrphone warehouse and soon to be joined by topshop, cotswold outdoor and thst bloody awful psyche place). Our nearest is in Newcastle and I haven't been there since before lockdown :(

@DominaShantotto

www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/live-updates-leicester-going-local-4273112

About the best I've found detailing what's being done. Glenfield, Birstall, Oadby mentioned, schools closed, non essential retail and the relaxation stuff delayed.

I feel like crying. There is no hope.

All a bit too close for comfort

Surrounding conurbation... well it's a conurbation pretty much through the whole way up to north Nottinghamshire.

Fuck - does that mean I need to wake the kids and get driving to my mum's? I don't trust them not to release us if they lock us down again - and the kids without school would break DD2.

Omg at Leicester. How on earth is that going to work?
Is this nightmare never going to end

I know it's used to death on here but I am literally shaking at the fear of having to lock back down again and them taking another 3 months to release and the kids losing their school provision I had to fight so hard to get. Wording of the WankSock statement said vulnerable and key worker kids will still get school but I know we'll be on the borderline and I'll have to fight if it happens.

This is never ever going to end is it?

I am fucking furious about Leicester. Absolutely fucking furious. This cannot continue.

I can't live through this. I can't keep putting the kids through this miserable joyless existence. I just can't.

No one cares about the kids. This is just going to fuel the never opening schools again - there's no parks, no joy, what is there for my children?

You’ll be ok where you are @DominaShantotto. Bit riskier here but just hoping we’re far enough out of the city centre.
It won’t work anyway. Unless they’re putting roadblocks up people will just go to shops and pubs in the surrounding areas. It’s just government posturing.
It’s all bullshit.

@Mascotte weirdly, they seem to be pushing masks in between fighting each other about the GRA.

The Sadly Deaths will perform in ironic pink ties.

I do hope that for the sake of people in and around Leicester, the opportunity isn't missed to really ramp up testing and try to get it under control.

It just seems like the more testing the more panic the more rash decisions.

I really think there will be riots.

@Drivingdownthe101

You’ll be ok where you are *@DominaShantotto*. Bit riskier here but just hoping we’re far enough out of the city centre. It won’t work anyway. Unless they’re putting roadblocks up people will just go to shops and pubs in the surrounding areas. It’s just government posturing. It’s all bullshit.

And then when they realise everyone is just heading into Nottingham for a piss up when the pubs reopen - they'll lock us as well. Wondering if getting the kids and me the hell out of the East Midlands is wise since they're obviously wanting to make an example of Leicester and the rest of us will go down by association.

I can only hope the kids' school places will be OK if they cut the opening right back - I'll self harm and go to A+E to get the kids on social services radar if I have to to keep them in school. That's how desperate this has got. DD2's lost about a year of her speech sound development because of this fucking lockdown.

Where exactly is the outbreak in Leicester? Is it centred in an area or factory? Sorry if I'm asking very obvious questions, I can't find the details online. I just find locking down the entire city beyond comprehension. It has to be posturing

[quote BakewellTarts]@Drivingdownthe101 someone suggested locking down the whole of the East Midlands. Lets just hope its more hysteria.[/quote]
I hope so! I'm hoping to fly out of that airport soon....

I can't keep up, so as apologies if anyone has said the same.
Leicester has socio economic issues which make it surprising that it wasn't particularly hard hit either on.
There is also some suggestion of a sandwich factory in Leicester with a cluster of cases (another food industry that requires chilled working areas and a lot of hand work, meaning people close together).
It's becoming clear that the food industry is particularly vulnerable, but where are the demands to shut food factories?
Schools are death holes, public transport is lethal.
But we need to stay at home and receive our Tesco deliveries or mask up for the supermarket.
The Polish, Romanians, Hungarians and Lithuanians that largely staff the food industry can just suck it up, clearly.

@Teateaandmoretea

So as a healthy 65 year old you wouldn’t want resuscitating?

My mum always said she didn’t want to grow old and died at 66 (she was perfectly healthy seemingly and had a heart attack one day). Now while undoubtedly it’s no fun being in a care home at 95 I reckon on balance she’d have put up with some elderly discomfort if she had lived to watch her grandchildren grow up.

I want to grow old, but having lost mum prematurely I don’t assume it will happen maybe like a lot of people do. I also don’t want to waste precious life on this covid crap.

No - because if I arrested there would be a reason and if resuscitation worked, which it probably wouldn't anyway, it would more than likely leave me coping first with the violence of resuscitation (almost definitely broken ribs which are excruciating and possible punctured lung) I would then be living with whatever had caused it and I would be unlikely to regain full independence.

I have two adult children in their 40s and no grandkids (I can see why grandkids would make a difference)

I think your mum was lucky and that is how most of us would like to go. Maybe not quite so young but I'd rather die tomorrow than have 10 more good years and 10 of pain and disability.

Leicester people ...I’m so sorry
None of us are safe from this tyranny
😢

Read in DM what a covid wedding looks like

Sounds unbelievably dismal

LivinLaVidaLoki pop in and say hello, I’m about a mile away

Try not to panic, easier said than done I know, but I honestly think they're just making a point to show "look, we can do it". Bizarrely, I think they reckon people will find it reassuring.

Nus Ghani really called out his bullshit on closing schools back down.

Bet it only lasts a week.

Sky reporting it basically that Leicester is going back to the day after they announced lockdown in terms of everything shutting and going to a stop. And the fucking arsehole's announced this just before bedtime so none of us know if it's us or when it's going to end of whatever.

DH's gone to bed and I'm just sat here with tears running down my face shaking.

@DominaShantotto 💐

Dowser - no one will go ahead with weddings under those circumstances, win win for the government, they say they can go ahead and then implement ludicrous restrictions which act as a deterrent.

@Willitneverend the priorities are mental. It's like how they focussed on football singing as opposed to hearth, education or women's rights.

Awww Do ina..I’m crying with you
A big virtual hug on its way.