Those living in the Manchester/Lancs/W.Yorks area of restrictions

[CathKidston89]

Does anyone know when they said they’ll review it?
I’m hoping this is only a short term thing as when I go back to work in two weeks time I will need my in laws as childcare, they’ve been our childcare since day one of me going back to work after Mat leave.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/31/leicester-lockdown-review-map-when-coronavirus-restrictions-end/amp/

Leicester went into lockdown on the 29/06 and still have restrictions now. Restrictions are easing on Monday and then there will be a further review on the 13/08.

As a guess, Leicester will be being used as a pilot case to see how we should manage local lockdowns in the future. However, we don't have the full results of the success of the lockdown so Manchester may well suffer from a longer local lockdown then there may be in the future.

The quarantine is now 10 days for the virus so I would imagine any local lockdown will be at least 3 weeks (if one person catches it on day 10 for example).

I assume there isn't an option for you or your husband to work at home?

If your mum is from a single household can she form a support bubble with you? Could she be your childcare? Can you move the in laws in with you or you to them?

Are the council still offering to find childcare spaces for people?

Depends what you consider city centre. Cornbrook tram stop is T and I consider that city centre.

You're presumably under 30, not from the area or both then.

And Imperial War Musuem. Salford Quays is obviously Salford but that is clearly city centre.

The Imperial War Museum is in Trafford Park, Trafford. The other side of the canal from Salford, and miles from the city centre.

Imperial War Museum North
Trafford Wharf Road
Trafford Park
MANCHESTER
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The impression I’m getting in my area of GM Is no one gives a shit anymore and are doing what they want when it comes to meeting family and friends

Neither Salford Quays or any part of Trafford is in Manchester City centre. The lockdown applies to all of Greater Manchester anyway, so arguing over borders is pointless. This is Greater Manchester.

Also Trafford isn't one of the worst hit boroughs!

But to answer your question OP, everyone is a bit shocked and no one has any idea when it might change.

It’s going to get better before it gets worse. People were still visiting each other in droves yesterday.

I expect they’ll keep the restriction but may introduce the ‘bubble’ idea that they initially abandoned.

@ohrien

I think G.Manchester is a tricky one to measure for various reasons. For example, some of the actual city centre doesn’t even come under Manchester City Council and comes under Trafford instead (I’m in Trafford and AFAIK it’s the worst hit borough at the moment) but I’ve not actually heard of any cases in my particular town or surrounding towns in the south of the borough. People seem to be well behaved here, high mask compliance etc. I reckon a majority of Trafford’s cases are in the city centre part. Have to wonder about Salford as well as they also lay claim to a huge part of the actual Manchester city centre.

@ohrien Actually it was Hale and Hale Barnes that showed a first rise, there is an outbreak in Altrincham I hear the staff of a supermarket there have 7 positive cases.

You can track positive cases on this map, if you click each area it will tell you how many cases last week (as long as it's 3 or above). You will see it's evenly spread throughout the borough. Don't be complacent wherever you are in Trafford; the city centre is much less affected.

coronavirus-staging.data.gov.uk/cases?areaType=ltla&areaName=Trafford

@Bumpinthenight no we don’t have the option to work from home and neither of our parents are from a single parent household. We might have no choice but to allow them to look after DS as I’m not sure what the other option is if restrictions don’t lift by September at the latest.

(to clarify, the map is accessed through a green button lower down the page on the link I gave you).

I’m actually in Calderdale, so not in Greater Manchester, we don’t have a great number of cases. So I’m hoping they will lift restrictions here first.

I'm in the part of W Yorkshire which is affected. It makes me laugh that the Leicester lockdown is being cited as an example because their pubs and restaurants never re opened and yet ours are so it's not comparing like with like.
Also, the area I'm in is geographically diverse - rural West Yorkshire cannot possibly be compared with town centre Dewsbury.
They should apply these local lockdown by postcode. And have enough respect for those of us affected to announce them properly FFS

@Redolent do you mean the bubble idea for just the areas under restrictions or the entire country?

I just read something to say it’ll be reviewed in a week now.

It's going to be reviewed weekly however I suspect they will be looking for a significant improvement to lift it rather than reasons justifying extending it. Also in the lockdown area but in a borough where the current rate is below the national average.

Well, can’t see the numbers being better in two weeks if yesterday was anything to go by.

starrynight19 we too are in an area with low figures surrounding by areas with high figures that unfortunately I can't see the figures for those areas decreasing anytime soon.
Redolent I saw a few people still visiting, not big parties just three/four say which for me I feel more comfy with than going down the pub with strangers.

I would probably do it and if anyone queried mention you need the support and it is a bubble situation (or you felt it was)

It seems silly given that children are low risk. I think you should make your own risk assessments.

Bluesheep we are in the same position as you.
Just because Kirklees council administer our village we get lumped in with large towns like Dewsbury and Wakefield where cases may be higher. Leeds is closer to me in terms of travel than Dewsbury is

I'm in Greater Manchester and will continue to use family childcare where absolutely necessary. There are a few days where it's unavoidable. The rules are unpoliceable and ripe for legal challenge if there's any attempt to fine for use of family childcare. Well, yours are. Ours don't appear to have even been published yet!

Littlebopeep123 yes I feel the same about the areas around us. Wondering what impact this will have on return to school.

Well both my neighbours have already broken the rules (we are in Trafford) and the last time I was in the shops I had an older woman coughing down the back of my neck and refusing to move back in the queue onto the demarcations so basically I give up. We’ve already all had in way back in May so fingers crossed we are immune but we have obeyed all the rules throughout.

It = Covid

Philip Davies is claiming credit for a weekly review. He's incensed that his constituency (Shipley) is caught up in the Bradford closure.

People in Altrincham and parts of Stockport are arguing they are in Cheshire on local Facebook groups and ignoring the rules.