Pulling DCs out of school for a few days to ensure that you get a decent Christmas isn't dementory. You're not trying to suck out anyone else's joy or affect their time in school.
We're down to 73.5/100,000 people, or 7 cases in the neighbourhood, so I'm not too concerned about our immediate risk. Not really sure it's worth destroying the hospitality/ leisure industry over...
We were talking local rates on the playground a few days ago. Our surge was in October, peaking just before half term. "Be safe mum" thinks that the local reduction is evidence that tier 3 is working... flawed logic on timing. We were tier 1 until Halloween. Went into tier 2 when lockdown was announced and had 5 days before that came into effect. Local cases had peaked, and came down through lockdown. Data avaliable this morning is from 30th- 6th Dec, so the change from lockdown to tier 3 (not significantly different unless you do sport) is only just showing up.
I'm just surprised that Leicester is showing sustained higher rates when other areas such as Liverpool have peaked and declined. Has long lockdown just forced a significant number into quietly mixing indoors? Not a moral judgement, I really wouldn't blame them for doing it to keep sane. Whatever it is, near constant restrictions clearly have not brought the city to lower rates since July/ August.