Anyone in Nottingham?

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Looking like lockdown is on the cards, but my area likely won't be included.

Waves to picklemewalnuts - other side of our road is Gedling

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Just seen on the guardian love blog that ‘talks with Nottingham about going into tier 3 are due later this week’?!?! Bit odd as 4 hours earlier the guardian reported that cases in Nottingham were starting to fall!!!! I thought tier 3 was for boroughs where tier 2 wasn’t having an effect?!?!

@murmurgam have you seen talks about Gedling going in tier 3 but not Ashfield?! That will be an interesting dynamic on the local FB page.

@TalkingIntoTheEther the numbers are all over the shop. Up and down like (insert your own metaphor).

They are talking today about queens being overrun, admitting a full ward of Covid patients in one day.

Yeah I saw that this morning pickle looks we are doomed to go into tier 3 now!

Waving to @murmurgam we're Ashfield too.
Surely they can't put us into tier 3?
Popped into Egos at the old Ashfield last week. It was dead. Usually this place is busy (as you know).
It's just an example of how we're affected.

And here we are, waving at each other across a lawn.

Doh. Road.

Nottinghamshire County Council have finally announced Tier 3 restrictions, from 00.01 Thursday.

City, Gedling, Rushcliffe and Broxtowe

relatives now out of bounds. We are still tier two, for now. Good luck.

There are graphs on BBC, showing very sharply dropping pillar 2 case numbers, barely a squeak of pillar 1 numbers and so the question we should be asking is "why?, if its going down so fast, why are they ratcheting up the lock down?".

I've checked the BBC's data out and by the councils own numbers (last updated for the week of the 11th of October) :

Pillar 2 cases are rocketing down from circa 400/day just as fast as they went up.
Pillar 2 cases are basically all down to younger people. Avg ages is 20 years.
Pillar 2 cases are very very tightly clustered around the University. Even the adjacent wards show much lower numbers and the furthest out have barely any.
Pillar 1 cases are < 100 and falling. Avg age is 68.

There have been, according to the Nottingham Post, today, 6 deaths for the whole month and these are described as deaths with covid-19.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum

Medics at queens are saying they've been taking in a full ward's worth of patients each day.
I'd guess the concern is it's away from the student areas and needs to be slowed.

I hope they stick to 28 days as it's i
Obviously falling already

I wish they'd just make up their minds...

@murmurgam

I wish they'd just make up their minds...

It seems they have. Whole city and county into tier 3, but delayed until 00.01 on Friday.

Still no word on what additional local measures there may be though...

Yes, I meant the additional measures as much as who is in/out of tier3.

Some muttering about banning alcohol sales after 9pm, which would be a new one as no other area has had that yet.

Here's the full list - looks like we are by far the harshest restrictions across England...

www.broxtowe.gov.uk/news-events/news/press-releases-2020/october-2020/nottingham-and-nottinghamshire-move-to-tier-3-very-high-restrictions-for-covid-19

bonkers

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-54717821

Alcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 GMT in shops, but can be sold until 22:00 if bought "in hospitality venues where accompanying a substantial meal".

Good job they introduced this tier system to 'simplify' things!

What is the point of the 9pm alcohol rule?

There's been some suggestion that with the 10pm curfew drinkers flood out of pubs and into supermarkets and offlicenses to buy more booze. So it would make sense when people were following rule of 6. But when you can only drink with your household and you need to be doing it with a sit down meal, then it doesnt seem particularly relevant.

Also is this badly worded:

"All hospitality venues (cafes, restaurants, pubs, bars and social clubs) can only remain open to offer substantial meals, or must move to operate a delivery and takeaway service only. Alcohol can only be served with a substantial meal."

Or does it literally ban going into a cafe for coffee and cake?

I thought I saw covid lurking in the beer aisle of our Sainsbury’s local at 9,01pm last night so it makes perfect sense. It must have stopped off on its way to Wetherspoons at 10.01pm!