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'm assuming there would have been very little social distancing going on at the horse fair.

So very sorry for people caught up in this nightmare.

Most people become symptomatic on about day 5-6 post exposure (range 2-14) and you cite that 40% test negative on 4 days post exposure.

So most people do not test positive until close to or after the onset of symptoms. And even there there is a 20% false negative rate

Mass testing isn’t going to be accurate enough to show who is incubating it, especially those newly exposed

Like I said earlier I live just on the border with the city. I have just popped to my local supermarket and was the only person there in a mask which surprised me.

All it is likely to mean is returning to the stricter guidelines everyone was following a few weeks back.

@Shitfuckoh

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?

The way it's been reported previously is the preceding two weeks meaning the rest occured prior to 2nd June, I think the report you've read just isn't very clearly worded

@ShootsFruitAndLeaves

> Why would a horse fair be banned

People like complaining about gypsies

Because there were hundreds of people in close proximity, albeit outside ?

[quote rosie39forever]**@Babyroobs quite, although I live in the county I never shop in the City only go if I absolutely have to for a hospital appointment, it's an absolute dirty hole of a place.[/quote]
Why is it?

They can't just announce a sudden lockdown. TBH it doesn't matter what the goverment do, it'll be wrong in some peoples eyes

mass testing isn't going to be accurate enough
But testing is the only thing we've got at the moment even if it gives a picture of localised clusters it would be better than nothing.

I'm actually finding some of the comments on this thread quite racist.

Which comments are racist?

Just to clarify my post, I would feel the same if I lived in Bournemouth and hundreds of people descended into my town. It's nothing to do with what they are there for, just the number of people there.

There has been an outbreak in a food processing place in Yorkshire too and one in wales. Seems a bit weird?

To do with working practices?

@Babyroobs, yes South Wigston biscuit factory.
Although I guess where the employees live is important but I’m also guessing that many will be local.

(a) It's really sensible
(b) It's part of the plan they announced previously
(c) It's protection, not punishment
(d) What has it got to do with food processors?

I get that, apparently centred on some food-processors. Still find the concept oddly creepy, maybe have seen too many 50s SciFi films.

@anon5000 where’s the racism?

@anon5000 Decades of government underfunding (the East Midlands has one of the lowest amounts going to the county and city councils of every local authority in GB) many areas of the city have just been forgotten about, many people in minimum wage jobs and unemployed. Housing has been a major problem in the suberbs lots of substandard private rentals and overcrowding.

I'm in the Oadby/Wigston area & pretty pissed about it. My family have followed all the guidelines that have been set. I'm hoping it's just the areas of Leicester that have a high infection rate.

I agree with Chipotle.

[quote rosie39forever]**@anon5000 Decades of government underfunding (the East Midlands has one of the lowest amounts going to the county and city councils of every local authority in GB) many areas of the city have just been forgotten about, many people in minimum wage jobs and unemployed. Housing has been a major problem in the suberbs lots of substandard private rentals and overcrowding.[/quote]
And people working in illegal factories/ sweat shops for below minimum wage.

Personally, if they told us my city was going back into lockdown that's fine. I'd go back to lockdown approach, fewer shopping trips, no seeing GPs / friends for socially distanced stuff and just one walk / exercise a day. I'm quite used to it now

I wouldn't be the only one. I'm sure a large percentage of the population would oblige without the need for roadblocks etc and still allowing for a smaller minority who need to go to work out of county and then an even smaller minority who are just dicks and would carry on regardless.

But that's probably enough to contain it.

Reduce, not eliminate.

I’m in Leicester this should have happened a week ago at least

[quote rosie39forever]**@anon5000 Decades of government underfunding (the East Midlands has one of the lowest amounts going to the county and city councils of every local authority in GB) many areas of the city have just been forgotten about, many people in minimum wage jobs and unemployed. Housing has been a major problem in the suberbs lots of substandard private rentals and overcrowding.[/quote]
A lot of those areas with the out breaks are not poverty stricken through
I wouldn't call Stoneygate a dirty hell hole. Or Humberstone or Hamilton.

@randomer

a horse fair? as in travellers? as in people who travel?

I live in the county, about 15 or so miles from the city. Like many country areas, our town has a livestock market, and some days we have horse sales (although I don't think ours has reopened yet). So not necessarily travellers, no.

I am currently furloughed, so was waiting to hear when we would be returning. I work on the outskirts of Leicester, but I don't have to travel through the city. I think a heavy handed lockdown isn't going to happen, though.