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.

If they're going to impose local lockdowns they just need to bite the bullet and do it. Has nothing been learned from March?

There are a few nicer areas around the city but they are few and far between the actual city centre apart from the high cross area is pretty terrible.

@rosie39forever

There are a few nicer areas around the city but they are few and far between the actual city centre apart from the high cross area is pretty terrible.

I suppose it's how you define a nice area. If you mean a nice white MC area then no, you won't find many of those in the city. They tend to be in the county. .

It's got nothing to do with race it's to do with investment and opportunity.

I’m just outside leicester. Very close to M1 junction. I presume we would be affected as our village is practically attached to Leicester these days.... Dh will have to not go to work and I have an appointment to see a surgeon soon so would be absolutely shit for me as I’m not coping. Recent namechange here btw.

* 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.*

And none of these estates have outbreaks. It is the posher / more expensive parts of Leicester that (house prices in Highfields go up to £400k now too) with the outbreaks. BAME people tend to do well in Leicester and it is true we are a majority but it isn’t true that we are poor or deprived (the bad estates are mostly white). In many cases outbreaks may be as a result of going to the shops (Sainsburys and Tesco have had staff who were off sick) or the railway station (many people in the posher parts of Leicester are London / Birmingham commuters)

Just out of interest, does anyone have a reputable source for recent, daily cases in Leicester? Because what I'm seeing is a lot of concern based on numbers nearly 2 weeks old, with the overall 2494 number of cases made to sound as if they've all been very recent

To be clear I don't know if there's genuinely a major problem with numbers continuing to rise or if this is being used as a scare tactic to encourage compliance ... what I'm simply after is some hard information instead of media hyperbole

@rosie39forever

It's got nothing to do with race it's to do with investment and opportunity.

If you say so.

Leicester Mercury

@GrumpyHoonMain

* 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.*

And none of these estates have outbreaks. It is the posher / more expensive parts of Leicester that (house prices in Highfields go up to £400k now too) with the outbreaks. BAME people tend to do well in Leicester and it is true we are a majority but it isn’t true that we are poor or deprived (the bad estates are mostly white). In many cases outbreaks may be as a result of going to the shops (Sainsburys and Tesco have had staff who were off sick) or the railway station (many people in the posher parts of Leicester are London / Birmingham commuters)

You make a good point. The most deprived areas are probably some of the estates. None of which are on that list.

@rosie39forever - there are a lot of nice areas in Leicester. A lot of outstanding schools. Very close to zero crime. House prices even around the railway station approach £400k+. But they are not white areas so racists like you tend to dismiss them.

@rosie39forever

There are a few nicer areas around the city but they are few and far between the actual city centre apart from the high cross area is pretty terrible.

I work on Humberstone gate. It is dire. My whole working day I am listening to scuffles breaking out, constant commotion in the street. People openly deal drugs on the street. It is scary. Probably the same as a lot of other city centres though.

@GrumpyHoonMain.............I'm not white😱

There will need to be consultation between the city, district and county councils over this. The borders of the city authority don't contain all the suburbs, so closing some of the outlying areas will need district and county council co-operation.

I find it a bit offensive having the whole city defined as a shit hole by some of the people on here.

I happen to love Leicester, I've lived here my whole life and have no desire to ever leave. Like any city it has areas nicer than others but as a whole it's a great place.

Not sure if the mention of the Leicester Mercury was for me, GrumpyHoonMain, but I had a look and unfortunately it doesn't give a count for recent daily cases
Interestingly, though, it mentions that the current total's now 2459, which is slightly lower than the 18 June figure being quoted widely in other media

As said, I'm just trying to get a handle on what's actually happening as opposed to how things are sometimes reported

There's a graph of case numbers by days here, not broken into areas of the city/county though

www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/still-coronavirus-outbreak-leicester-statistics-4259107

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

We are fast on our way to many people not giving a shit about "racism" with these constant accusations. Discussing race with regards to cultural norms is NOT racist ffs!

I live in a town with a very low BAME population.
The centre of it is also a shit-hole that I avoid as much as possible.

I have an old school friend who is due to be admitted for a routine op next week (it's cancer related but he's choosing to have the op rather than active surveillance). He doesn't need an ICU bed or anything so that should still go ahead shouldn't it? He's very anxious about it being cancelled.

@YgritteSnow

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

We are fast on our way to many people not giving a shit about "racism" with these constant accusations. Discussing race with regards to cultural norms is NOT racist ffs!

Blaming the outbreak in Leicester solely on the asian community is racist imo.

I've been a lockdown sceptic - not so much anti it per se, but concerned about it going on too long on a national basis and the sledge hammer to crack a nut approach (so rural villages of low incidence subject to the same repressive restrictions as congested urban areas - when frankly it wasn't necessary in some sparsely populated relatively isolated areas)

I fully support localised lockdown however - targeted to hot spots to contain the spread and prevent a huge second wave and a second national lockdown. Do it and do it now.

@ChipotleBlessing

It’s nothing to do with behaviour, it’s to do with local infection rates. I’d be fine with local lockdowns for a limited time to get infection rates under control.

^ This

If I lived in Leicester I wouldn’t need a lockdown ordered. Plain commonsense would keep me inside.

@TorysSuckRevokeArticle50

I find it a bit offensive having the whole city defined as a shit hole by some of the people on here.

I happen to love Leicester, I've lived here my whole life and have no desire to ever leave. Like any city it has areas nicer than others but as a whole it's a great place.

I have lived here my whole life too except for a couple of periods of a few years abroad and in another city. I do think it has seriously gone down hill though from what I remember from my teen years and early twenties. There are some lovely places in the county, but honestly the city is dire. I normally work in the city centre, it is full of people off their head on spice and anti-social behaviour. there seems to have been a huge surge in knife crime over the past few years although maybe not worse than other major cities. As part of my job I sometimes have to walk from the city centre to the LRI, I pass drugs being openly dealt in the street, people shouting and spitting in the street, people slumped outside shops . I found a guy slumped outside a mini Tesco's a few weeks before lock down. People were just walking by him and ignoring him as it is such a common site to see people slumped in the street like that ( usually drugs). I managed to alert a parked up ambulance and they went to check him out fortunately as my gut instinct was that this case was different. It isn't pleasant. I dread my teenagers going into the city centre at night. I would like to move away if it wasn't for my kids needing to finish school here.