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.

I wonder what, if any, the consequences will be for the businesses where clusters have been tracked to. They can't have been putting proper control procedures in place.

My neighbour is due a heart operation and we don't live in Leicester but that's where he has to go for the op.

It has now been cancelled 4 times - latest was yesterday due to this spike as there were no ICU beds available for post op.

He could well die whilst waiting so they need to get this contained ASAP for him and all the other people relying on Leicester's NHS.

I wouldn't worry too much, we never had a full lockdown anyway, so no need for scaremongering and quoting other countries who DID have real lockdown. At worst we'll have a few more restrictions, nothing drastic.

I don’t understand why they’re taking about lockdown ‘in a few days’, when each day of delay costs lives and extends the eventual duration of the lockdown. Have they learned nothing from the Covid first wave?

I wonder what, if any, the consequences will be for the businesses where clusters have been tracked to. They can't have been putting proper control procedures in place.

That's not necessarily the case. Measures are to reduce, not eliminate the risk.

@FusionChefGeoff - has he asked to be transferred to another hospital further away? When anything's urgent like that, I would have thought the NHS will accommodate that.

I don’t understand why they’re taking about lockdown ‘in a few days’
Because the military require detailed instructions about what exactly happens in a containment area, because this is the first one.

These public statements are intended to try and "nudge" people into changing their behaviour.

I think public consent and cooperation would rapidly evaporate if they tried to put roadblocks around a city or deploy the army. And unless our government has had a dramatic shift to the point where they're happy to end up killing their own people to enforce "lockdowns" it won't be enforceable without mass cooperation.

Because the military require detailed instructions about what exactly happens in a containment area, because this is the first one.

Come off it. You have got to be on a windup.

I work in Leicester but live outside in a different county.

I'm watching and waiting to see what happens next. I really hope something is done and it's not just a media threat to try to get people to change their behaviour. The risk to people here is very real due to close knit inner city areas, multi generational house holds and the high bame population.

If the authorities were going to put Leicester back in lockdown, surely it would have made sense to do it before the weekend?

Has anyone downloaded the Zoe app?
I looked at it earlier, it estimates local infection rates. Looks like it's a small area of Leicester with a slightly higher spike.

A really tricky decision for government, I would think with the high BAME population. Can you really shut off a population like that? I have visions of the horror in New Orleans, completely different obviously but...

On the BBC website it says: ''About 25% of Leicester's 2,494 confirmed Covid-19 cases were reported in the two weeks before 16 June.''.

So have the other 'about' 75% come after the 16th then? If so, that's 1870 ish?

It’s really worrying me that still nothing has been done. I felt reassured that there wouldn’t be a second wave because localised outbreaks would be dealt with properly, but they’re not.

No shitfuckoh, they will have been in the three/four months or so before that 2 week period. Still a shocking proportion in a short time span though.

Well I suppose they will monitor case numbers day to day and if hospitals are overwhelmed as well, to gauge if and when to call it.

@UltimateWednesday oh yes of course! I wonder what the figures are like now then if they're only now making local lockdown possible known. Especially as that is a massive amount of positives in such a short amount of time

It’s not a punishment for goodness sake. If I lived somewhere that had a sizeable outbreak I’d want them to be doing everything possible to stop it, not standing back feebly letting it spread.

@user12699422578 - don't spoil the fun!

There WILL NOT be a lockdown in this country, but let's be honest, it's a political choice. If the government wanted one, we could have had one, there are more than enough resources for that. How do you think other countries managed? No need to be in North Korea to impose strict restrictions.

It hasn't happened here, and it won't happen later. No need to panic.

Bedford area has had a "stay-home" call from its elected mayor, apparently..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-53176565

"..despite the forthcoming further easing of lockdown measures, local residents should follow existing, stricter rules."

I don’t think having the army patrolling the streets will be all that suitable for dealing with localised outbreaks, but clearly it would make a lot of people feel very happy so maybe there’s an argument to be made around increasing public confidence.

I'm just inside the Leicester city boundary, I think they should lock down, I'd rather they do that then see the situation get worse.

I see that as local travel only, schools can probably stay as they are now as only 26% of eligible children have returned, no non-essential travel outside of the county.

The areas identified are north and east of the city

	North Evington 118 positive tests
	Humberstone and Hamilton 52 positive tests
	Belgrave 45 positive tests
	Spinney Hills 41 positive tests
	Rushey Mead 35 positive tests
	Stoneygate 34 positive tests
	Wycliffe 32 positive tests
	Evington 30 positive tests
	Thurncourt 30 positive tests
	Troon 30 positive tests

So maybe schools closed in those areas, and businesses actively monitored to ensure they are "COVID secure"

One problem is that if there is a threat of lock down and people will try to 'escape' in advance of it