Leicester facing full lockdown

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According to the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-53206506.
Anyone living there - how do you feel about this? Personally I would feel terribly trapped, almost like I was being punished, like when teacher's used to keep a whole class behind due to the behaviour of a minority.

@Unescorted oh no. We are right on the border. Ds's school is about 4 miles from a town that's in High Peak. I didn't realise they were so badly affected.

Please calm down about schools. We know that education is vital, where infections are low the correct balance is for them to open. Where infections are high as in Leicester right now (3x higher than the next highest infected spot in England) it's sensible to close them- not because kids are shot bed of infection but because travel increases, parents pass at school gates etc etc.

What's needed is a specific approach geared towards the communities with highest spread. All that a blanket lockdown is going to do is cause further alienation in the community

I'm not sure I can get my head around how that works. If they target any community as a major factor in the spread they'll hate what's being done, and if everyone else has to suffer equally, they in turn may resent the selected community

It's a difficult choice, frankly

Leicester will only be the first of many, too much went back to normal too soon.

Like others have said, people will just travel outside of the lockdown zone into neighbouring towns and villages. School is going to be a logistical minefield. Schools not in the lock down zone, if teachers live in the city they won’t be able to go to school therefore their bubble will have to close. I already know of three teachers where I work who won’t be able to come into school.

I wonder what happened for the government not to announce this until 9pm?

There appears to have been some friction between government and the local authority over this, so perhaps they've spent today thrashing it out with them, and the cabinet meeting decision pushed it back to tonight?

I haven't minded lock down too much overall, but I feel really disheartened about this news this evening. My elderly dad was just starting to venture out for the first time in weeks, my dd has had two mornings back at school which will now end until september, my ds is due back in his Uni town 150 miles away in less than 2 weeks to resume his part time job - will he be allowed to go ? Dh is shielding and now that is extended, my hair is nearly totally grey and I just had my first hair appointment booked back in, so had something to look forward to. I feel gutted. I know the hair business is shallow.

not because kids are shot bed of infection but because travel increases, parents pass at school gates etc etc

Oh come on. Get real. It's not the many unhygienic small humans mingling and not social distancing for hours, it's the parents passing each other outside twice a day. As if.

@Puzzledandpissedoff you're spot on. But the thing is how can you possibly determine if someone belongs to a particular 'community' - it's a can of worms.

It has to be done by postcode location. I believe that will be the least divisive way and cause the least resentment.

Please don't think that the people of Leicester are necessarily divided. I'm a white, middle class atheist, and I stand right next to my fellow Leicestershire people of every creed and colour. As far as I'm concerned we are all in this together.

Could you do a home dye baby, not trivial

Has there been any info on what areas will be locked down yet?

I get the impression we're on the cusp of the lock down areas but not in an area mentioned.

chaotic45 the reason the schools are closing is due to the outbreaks in them contributing to the rise in cases.
5 schools closing with outbreaks probably does suggest they are a hotbed of infection right now I would have thought.

@woodhill

Could you do a home dye baby, not trivial

Hairdresser has advised against it as will be harder to put right, but yes I will have to resort to that soon. I have used one of those touch up sprays but the area of grey is so extensive now I can't keep up !!

@Bercows I'm sending you an unmumsnetty hug.

My dad lives in central leicester and has two important hospital appointments in central Leicester this week- a pace maker check and a brain scan to see how advanced his newly diagnosed Parkinson's is. Tough decisions.

@Whoknowswhocares

So anyone who wants to shop from Leicester or go to the pub will simply travel out of that area to a neighbouring one.Or arrange their ‘street party’ elsewhere. Or visit the beach miles away etc with no one to stop them? Yeah right, that’s going to help then!

We need to wait for more details of the enforcement process, if Wales can organise a 5 mile travel limit I'm sure England can too.

Reading between the lines on this thread the demographic of the affected areas is not one that goes to the pub or holds street parties, if the unaffected in the area do drive somewhere else for a pint they aren't really increasing the risk. As long as the blunt instrument of an extended lockdown hits the affected groups some leakage around the edges is a small price to pay imo

What are the police going to do? Block the A47?

Could you try a semi perm to blend it, you know like Casting. It will fade out

I'm embracing mine tbh

I don't usually have a good word to say about this government by I agree with what they are doing here. Must be awful if you had a business reopening, but get necessary nonetheless.

Argh the hug was for @Babyroobs not @Bercows- but take it if you'd like it....

Yet they are opening pubs.

It's awful and we need to tread carefully for our children. It's so unsettling for them. Sending them to school and risking them catching the virus they have stayed home away from seems crazy. It's no safer now than it was in march in that case! If it's starting to spread around schools then they need to shut them. The whole bubbles and not going near friends is unhealthy anyway.

I miss life massively and I hate all this. But I don't agree with gambling to see what happens when it comes to our kids. Can't see the point in the last three months if cases are going to soar as soon as we are a few weeks back to life.

It's all depressing 😔

Not in Leicester but planned to send my boy back to Montessori tomorrow, how/why are children affected as Hancock is saying? Should I cancel tomorrow's plans?

@PuddleView

What are the police going to do? Block the A47?

Might keep Rutland safe where they have had hardly any cases.

@TerrapinStation absolutely. At the risk of being jumped on the Asian community of Leicester are not big pub goers at all, not at all.

The Telegraph is saying High Peak & Staff Moorlands are also going to have an extended lockdown

Yes I've just read it, and while we're not being given any numbers for Leicester, it seems those in the High Peak have gone from 2 to 9 and from 8 to 13 in the Staffs Moorlands

The first is a 450% increase which sounds awful, but actually represents only seven more cases. I'm no expert in these things, but is that really something for them to get into a stew over?

We need to wait for more details of the enforcement process, if Wales can organise a 5 mile travel limit I'm sure England can too.

I admire your optimism and hope you are right. However Wales is surrounded by sea on 3 sides and anecdotal evidence suggests those close to the Welsh border are not exactly water tight.
Closing Leicester down is likely to be much more problematic