Do you think there will be a 2 week national lockdown over oct half term

[Lardlizard]

As I want to make some plans but I’m unsure what’s happening

@gamerchick

I thought it was common knowledge that there was going to be a 2 week circuit breaker lockdown over half term unless numbers started to lower.

Dates aren't standardised.

@DumplingsAndStew
I bow to your more precise knowledge ;)
I guess i was extrapolating that that was what she meant: always risky!

@VintageStitchers

Fucking Just stay at home and utilise your nearest parks.

How hard is that?

I’m sick of people booking holidays In touristy places and potentially bringing Covid with them. We’ve already had to stay away from our local parks and beaches all summer but I had hoped we might get the opportunity to go for walks during half term without having annoying visitors turning up in their droves and leaving all their mess behind for the locals to pick up.

Selfish fuckers.

North Norfolk is a tourist hotspot and has one of the lowest rates of infection in the country. So how do you work that into your narrative? Or are you just raging at the public because you don’t understand how’s it’s the govt’s incompetence rather than people going on holiday?

The southwest is not COVID-free. I've just seen a case reported to the pub in our tiny village, and DS tested positive a few days after freshers week at college in Cornwall, so he's isolated ATM.

[quote DumplingsAndStew]@gamerchick

I thought it was common knowledge that there was going to be a 2 week circuit breaker lockdown over half term unless numbers started to lower.

Dates aren't standardised.[/quote]
And? Means bugger all to me. If it happens or it doesn't. I don't see the point of this debating out of a virus that goes on constantly.

Soz that reads as rude. I wasn't trying to be.

If they do this will they close Universities too? They don’t have a half term, in fact teaching will be just getting going and some courses have quite a bit of face to face (masked!) timetabled. I think there is often a reading week about the end of October, maybe just the uni's my kids went to.

Round here most of the schools have 2 weeks off for half term, I think they break up late in July, anyway they make the other week up somewhere.

@gamerchick

As dates aren't standardised (I think I've read of varying dates, spread out over a month) it would be impossible to have a standardised UK-wide lockdown that fell in to the whole UK's half term break.

[quote DumplingsAndStew]@gamerchick

As dates aren't standardised (I think I've read of varying dates, spread out over a month) it would be impossible to have a standardised UK-wide lockdown that fell in to the whole UK's half term break.[/quote]
So a month maybe?

I read the last 2 weeks in October. It's probably just something to bear in mind when wanting to book anything the way I'm taking it. Too scared to book anything which is a shame as the kids could do with something fun (and us)

I’m sick of people booking holidays In touristy places and potentially bringing Covid with them. We’ve already had to stay away from our local parks and beaches all summer but I had hoped we might get the opportunity to go for walks during half term without having annoying visitors turning up in their droves and leaving all their mess behind for the locals to pick up

The South-West had a low rate though all summer, it's really the combination of schools going back and bad weather starting the rise, and then most of the outbreaks are clustered around universities, If you don't plan on hanging out with university students on holiday, then you are probably ok!

I’m sick of people living in tourist areas then moaning about tourists.

Fucking move then. You don’t own the area. Selfish fuckers.

Seconded. The litter complaints are perfectly reasonable but the rest, fuck that. If you don't like it, go and live somewhere else.

It's funny that people with this level of entitlement never seem to take issue with the reverse of the travel they're talking about, isn't it? Perfectly fine for residents of scenic tourist areas to travel out them for inessential purposes. Maybe to go to a big city for a cultural or sporting event, or to access other amenities that aren't typically available in the sort of pretty coastal area being discussed. But it's fine when they do it.

I'm in north Northumberland.
Our rate was low 2 weeks ago but we are under increased local restrictions as Sunderland and parts of Newcastle are high as to be expected, especially as University students are returning.
But our rate has jumped over the last week too and not many from here commute right into Newcastle so I guess it's visitors bringing it?
We are a tiny village (hamlet) and have been inundated with tourists.
We need them for the economy and most are respectful and tidy but some aren't. And there has been little SD and that is mostly visitors :(
I have always lived in touristy areas.
Born Whitstable and have lived Canterbury, London, Edinburgh and Scottish Borders & Northumberland. All attract lots of visitors: good!
But visitors should remember to treat a holiday area as well as they would their own home / garden / village / town / city.
Moving out of a tourist area if you don't like tourists?
not always easy re housing and jobs.

No I don’t simply because I don’t think a two week lockdown will make much a difference.

We already have two week October half terms, so no change for us!

I think it would be really foolish to make any plans for this half term.

[quote bigbumbiggerheart]@GreyishDays

• therefore 3/4's of the country doesn't have a problem so perhaps why 'punish' them?

'1/4 of the country is in a local lockdown though'[/quote]
@bigbumbiggerheart
I think saying the other 3/4 of the country “doesn’t have a problem” is an overstatement.

@bridgetreilly

I think it would be really foolish to make any plans for this half term.

We have a family full of people with ASD. If we don't plan for more than just the following day, we'll have a bigger immediate problem than covid19

@DumplingsAndStew It’s pretty obvious that what the previous poster means is don’t plan to go anywhere. If your ASD means you need to know what’s happening, plan to stay at home.

[quote CarrotInATree]@DumplingsAndStew It’s pretty obvious that what the previous poster means is don’t plan to go anywhere. If your ASD means you need to know what’s happening, plan to stay at home.[/quote]
But we have plans to go away within the next few days. We haven't had any indication of needing to cancel.

@Bickles

If they do this will they close Universities too? They don’t have a half term, in fact teaching will be just getting going and some courses have quite a bit of face to face (masked!) timetabled.

I hope not but it's a possibility.

The class I'm teaching this semester starts next week but thankfully it's all online. I think last minute changes to teaching can be expected at the moment, though.

Yes I think they will, regions have different weeks so the two week lockdown will work to give a break. However the government have handled this so so badly

I think there should be a lockdown.

If people are allowed to travel - imagine how Covid will spread ...

I really want to go away - and will if we're allowed. God knows what Boris will do. If we were lead by a sensible government they'd shut down for half term. But we're not, are we? So who knows ...

@52andblue

Yes. Nicola Sturgeon said (2 weeks ago?) not to make plans for half term.

No she didn't.

She said that given countries coming on and off the quarantine list all the time she wouldn't be BOOKING A FOREIGN HOLIDAY.

That's not the same thing at all as "don't make plans for the October holiday".

Half term in Scotland isn't the same week across the country, some areas like Fife get 2 weeks anyway.

just had an email from the school. they have a confirmed case and the children in that bubble are being sent home to isolate. So I think its coming

I remember back in April some of the people of Cornwall on these boards, screaming (in capitals) that we needed to stay the fuck away from the south west because we would definitely overwhelm the hospital at Treliske.

I recall people replying they didn’t think it would be a problem by the summer, and it would be fine to go in July/August. But they had other information to suggest that wasn’t true and that the dirty tourists would be the death of them.

Funnily enough that wasn’t the case. It’s not spreading because of tourists, it’s spreading because people do t give a flying fuck and they pass it onto each other in houses and at university.

Quite why you’d tar tourists with this brush, I don’t know, except some deep seated hatred of tourists. Perhaps.