No local lockdowns in England

[Pickagoddamnname]

Every thread I click on there is false information about ‘local lockdowns’. Please can I just clarify there are none AT ALL in England. Unless you class a local lockdown as being able to shop for leisure, being able to travel out of area and visit pubs or restaurants there etc etc. There are extra restrictions but no local lockdowns. The media are just spreading this shite.

Ive been under these rules since end of July. I haven’t seen my parents since February either and haven’t seen some of my closest friends because they live in areas that you can’t even socialise outside never mind indoors, believe me I totally get it

OPs point is that those who aren’t living under it are assuming it’s a proper lockdown ie. not allowed to leave area, and are criticising people for doing things which are totally within the guidelines. There are a couple of threads on here recently where the OP is going on a UK holiday and was totally crucified about breaking some fictional rules.

Lockdown is what they had in Italy and China where people were effectively locked in their homes ,as if they left without a very good reason they were fined or (in China) taken away. Never had anything like that here.

I'm in Italy and we were never locked in our homes.

Agreed it's definitely not a good idea using the term lockdown when it's not, we simply can't go in people's houses or gardens but can meet them in pubs, restaurants, outdoors etc, that's the only difference to rest of England.

I live nowhere near any restrictions and have to confess that I thought the local"lockdowns" were exactly that until I read a thread on here about someone going on holiday.

I don't think the press should use that terminology if it isnt- even Bolton with nearly 250/100000 are apparently asked to obey restrictions to avoid local lockdown.

But the first local lockdown, for Leicester, they had much lower numbers than that and actually restricted movement, so unless you live in an affected area it seems reasonable to assume the same applies to the other areas the press describe as lockdown.

Added to this there is the fact that the quarantine restrictions for traveling overseas are so Draconian as to not let you walk the dog- when you only have to have been somewhere with over 20 cases.... So that had left me with the impression that current measures were much stricter that the march lockdown.

@HarrietOh

Agreed it's definitely not a good idea using the term lockdown when it's not, we simply can't go in people's houses or gardens but can meet them in pubs, restaurants, outdoors etc, that's the only difference to rest of England.

I don't know where you are, but here in the North East we are not supposed to meet people from other households socially at all, indoors or outdoors.

I can not visit my family in the local lock down area,
Local council sent out info saying 90% of cases were from families visiting families. If I am a risk to them, I will stay away even though I observe all the safety measures.

@TheSeedsOfADream
I know you weren’t literally but friends in Italy told me they might as well have been as could only leave in very limited circumstances. Hence I said “effectively”. But definitely as I understand it rules in England have been far more lax and could never really be considered “lockdown” imo.