To ask those of you in Northampton - Local lockdown?

[ChickenFriedFudge]

Northampton now has the highest infection rate in the country

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Anyone living in or around here? It's not looking good is it? Surely they would need to do it before the schools reopened?

We have a supplier at work from there who are very concerned.

Live in Northamptonshire but work in Northampton. There isn't currently a lockdown. However, the rates have been steadily increase since the official lockdown. So I'm surprised the likes of Manchester/Leicester had been plucked into local lockdown and not Northampton

I live 12 miles away and have family there. We also shop there. Last week when my husband had to go in to return something he encountered a huge sign asking motorists approaching the area if their visit was necessary? Its worrying I dont know why its do different there to other places.

@Nononsense8993 I feel the same. I think the council are really against it because of the economy.
I've read it might be announced today, but that's looking unlikely.
I have to say people here seem to be much more chilled about it than elsewhere.....

@WingingItSince1973 Yes, those signs are everywhere now.
They first went up when we were in national lockdown, then were changed to the normal drink/drive warnings, and then in the last week have all changed back again.....

In my opinion the rates of cases will always be high because more and more people are getting tested therefore there will be more positive cases.

I can't see how putting cities and towns in lockdown will prevent the increase when people are getting tested as those who are not symptomatic but still have had a test that test positive.

Not only that but the general consensus of having a second wave happening in the autumn/winter. how are people going to differentiate between the general flu and common cold compared to COVID-19.
The reality of it is we need to learn to live with this along with the other 18 strands of Covid that are out there already

Like a PP I live just outside town bu work in Northampton.

Nobody that I know seems to be that bothered.

The SD at the big out of town shopping centre is poor from what I saw today

@Nononsense8993

In my opinion the rates of cases will always be high because more and more people are getting tested therefore there will be more positive cases.

I can't see how putting cities and towns in lockdown will prevent the increase when people are getting tested as those who are not symptomatic but still have had a test that test positive.

Not only that but the general consensus of having a second wave happening in the autumn/winter. how are people going to differentiate between the general flu and common cold compared to COVID-19.
The reality of it is we need to learn to live with this along with the other 18 strands of Covid that are out there already

LOLOLOLOL 18 strands that have come before 😂😂😂

It’s because it was discovered in 2019.

I live there. I think its inevitable tbh.

I live and work in Northampton. My colleagues and I are swabbed each week, so the more tests done will show more asymptomatic positives.

I am in northampton too, a big spike in local cases due to a specific cluster of infections at a sandwich factory which pushed numbers up.....but I think local lockdown is a possibility

I live here too. I think it's a distinct possibility. @SuperficialSuzie Was that Rushden Lakes? The amount of people without masks (yes I know not all people can wear them but this was a crazy amount and whole families) and not sticking to SD when I was in Boots at Riverside today was crazy.

Tbf @CalmConfident we were scarily high before Greencore outbreak

@untiednations I believe SARS is a strand of covid. Correct me if I'm wrong

Fair comment @ChickenFriedFudge. Let’s see what happens.

Agree social distancing has seemed fairly relaxed in many places.

My understanding is the difference with Northampton is its primarily on the industrial estates it's happening? I think it's slightly different to where it previously erupted in whole towns everywhere which is why it has avoided lockdown thus far, but it could go in to lockdown any second at this rate...

Chickenfriedfudge - no this was Weston Favell, although I was in Swansgate in Welllingborough earlier (I'm not flouting lockdown I was working) and that was just as bad so it seems lots of the county are paying no heed.