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

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Over here peeps.

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

I think if there was an outbreak in my area I would bolt into the supermarket, possibly masked and gloved, buy a couple of weeks worth of stuff, then lock myself in for two weeks and hope it passes. I would go out once a day for exercise but give people a wide berth.

I don't mind doing that for a couple of weeks, or maybe 3, for a specific outbreak. It's the generalised lockdown regardless of local cases with no clear way out that I don't like. If shutting everything down doesn't result in a decrease in cases there doesn't seem much point in just keeping on and on and on and destroying the economy.

@Weedsnseeds1 love it

Maybe we could set a few free in Leicester

Two weeks I could handle. "At least two weeks" I could not handle.

It's like psychological torture at a government level.

It's exactly what it is - just like in the early days when twats on the cv board were saying it was good that the government were terrifying people & lying to the population is perfectly acceptable if it 'keeps people safe'

@DominaShantotto I hope you're ok. We're all here for you.

I just misheard a segment on BBC Scotland on weddings; "couples can celebrate their first piss but some guests will only be able to witness it by video link".

Maybe it will be new tradition that people piss in each other's garden as a courting ritual?

I read the Leicester article and found another one. I often find the comments at the bottom to be very revealing because they come from ordinary folk like us who actually live in these locations. So have a better idea of the problems locally.

www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-put-back-lockdown-non-4276351

I just cannot believe that even after nearly 100 days of lockdown this Government are still behaving like a complete bunch of fuckwits. Have they learned nothing. People need clear, decisive information, not ifs buts maybes and we'll let you know soon. It's a shocking way to treat people.

I am just so fed up and frustrated with this complete shitshow now.

Hugs to everyone who needs it tonight.

Domina I'm so sorry, this is just crap.

I thought the whole point of track and trace was to isolate potential high number areas in such a way that overall lockdown wasn't required. Have they said where the cases are from - surely it can't be all of Leicester? Numbers have been higher there for a while, so earlier less draconian action could have been taken.

I suspect it's political posturing designed to keep the populace frightened because the real numbers are going dowb,but also and rather conflictingly to convince our European neighbours that we take this thing seriously PS please let everyone go on holiday to your country without quarantine , thanks awfully Boris.

💐 for everyone in the Leicester area.
Somewhat shamefully I don't know exactly where that is. True southerner here so if it's beyond Winchester, it's 'The North'

The vagueness is what scares me the most. Give us some clear numbers of rates etc to work towards, not just moving the goalposts without explaining the reasoning eg. Rates in a county = level of restrictions etc.

I agree with PP. I wouldn't be surprised by rioting this summer. I remember 2011 and even though it was nowhere near us, watching it on the news terrified me at the time.

Somewhat shamefully I don't know exactly where that is

Right in the middle

Those comments on the Leicestershire Live reveal a potential for a backlash against Muslims and Hindus.

I was always under the impression it was mainly Hindus in Leicester, but they're going on about mosques a lot. Was I wrong?

@Weedsnseeds1

On the plus side, somebody has mislaid a 6 foot boa constrictor in Weston Super Mare, so the local dementor will be temporarily distracted, I hope

With the state of some bits of Weston (I used to live round there) - I fear for the boa constrictor to be honest! They'll probably find it burnt out and jacked up on piles of bricks.

Domina if you need a walk in the park at some point, PM me.

I've still got a wardrobe with high stocks of food supply, mainly incase we fell ill and couldn't go out but it would cover additional lockdown.
We definitely can't blame local beach crowding in Leicester.

I hope it is contained quickly and catches back up with the rest of the country ASAP.
There is certainly a lot of interraction between Leicester, Coventry, Nottingham and Derby.

Those comments are ...... interesting.

Lots of calls for the army in there.

There are so little details I’m starting to think that this is just being used to control the entire population.
Scary how we’ve lost most of our human rights and no politician seems to saying “hang on a minute”.

@HesterShaw1

Those comments on the Leicestershire Live reveal a potential for a backlash against Muslims and Hindus.

I was always under the impression it was mainly Hindus in Leicester, but they're going on about mosques a lot. Was I wrong?

I noticed that too.

It has been happening locally to me as well. I have taken to avoid some facebook pages.

@HesterShaw1

Those comments on the Leicestershire Live reveal a potential for a backlash against Muslims and Hindus.

I was always under the impression it was mainly Hindus in Leicester, but they're going on about mosques a lot. Was I wrong?

Given the standard of comments in my local news a few junctions up the road, most people posting wouldn't know the difference between a Hindu temple, mosque or gurdwara.

In 2006, I was teaching on the southern end of my county not so far from Leicester and stunned to have to teach the y7s that you can't use that word to describe the local convinence store!

twitter.com/sophiamc12/status/1277691429708595202?s=04&fbclid=IwAR3GV2b0UAZjnANix1e8WLGESm3gI472fpQvJ9e1e-Z0SoM_EIeGOPnN6Ss

This one did make me giggle though with poor Loughborough at the end.

This is how they are handling local lockdown in Germany, interesting that they now want to test workers twice weekly.

uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-meat/germany-extends-lockdown-in-district-hit-by-covid-19-in-abattoir-idUKKBN2401US

@DominaShantotto

twitter.com/sophiamc12/status/1277691429708595202?s=04&fbclid=IwAR3GV2b0UAZjnANix1e8WLGESm3gI472fpQvJ9e1e-Z0SoM_EIeGOPnN6Ss

This one did make me giggle though with poor Loughborough at the end.

Ha! DH was just saying that perhaps a Stephen King Dome would be the next step

The councils really need to get a grip on houses of multiple occupancy. Wales has its faults but it sits on its landlords hard. They have to be licenced now, which means passing online exams or letting licensed EA run them. Overcrowding is much harder to do. The landlord can no longer claim ignorance of this, ditto boiler checks, and the condition of the property. The landlord is assumed to be in the wrong when a tenant blows the whistle now.

@DominaShantotto if I could give you a big motherly hug (no one in this house wants motherly hugs) I would. I'd pour you a cup of soothing chamomile tea and we could could commiserate with each other over our weird and wonderful kids.

If you don't feel safe, and reading between the lines you don't feel supported, I think you can safely argue for moving to stay with your mum for a while. It doesn't sound like the lockdown is far outside the city, itself so I think you'll be all right, but planning to stay over at the weekend might help to calm the panicky feelings, all the same.

Only reason I'm not in the car now (ironic considering Sunderland was the poster-city for corona hell the other month) is the fact the kids are in a key worker/vulnerable bubble... and the fact me and my mum get on better with a few 100 miles between us.

She's been warned to be on standby as if there's any sniffing of widening the area I'm fleeing.

Hester I think Leicester is majority Muslim?
My relatives live in the county but not the city.
Domina I fear for the snake too as its quite cold here. Or maybe it will be kidnapped bh marauding Brummies?

I am so very sorry for all you lovely Leicester people.

I feel so miserable tonight Because of what’s just happened.
Went onto fb and there’s a photo of the lovely lad who cleaned our cars a couple of years ago.
He ditched the car cleaning and concentrated on carpet / soft furnishing/ sofa cleaning. What he doesn’t know about carpet cleaning and the right chemicals to use would go on the back of a postage stamp.
He’s looked into all the ways he can provide for his adorable children especially as His wife’s business closed down.
While he was working it out how they were going to survive, he made the most beautiful wooden playhouse for his children..absolutely delightful.
He made planters to sell, and garden gates, offered to do fencing..this guy is a Grafter with a capital G

Tonight he’s in hospital, having sliced off his thumb in a dreadful accident.

Yet another casualty of this shitshow...this wouldn’t have happened if he’d been doing his normal job.

I could weep, I really could.