Scotland - 5 Tiers, where do you think you'll be?

[Plump82]

Im in Lanarkshire so pretty sure it'll come under tier 3, which from what i can read doesnt chanhe much for the way things are right now.

I don't think any will be 0. I think 3 for most of the central belt, 2 for everywhere else except maybe some of the Highlands which may get 1.

She’ll have problems justifying putting Forth Valley in a higher tier than Dundee.

I am in Glasgow, fully expect to be Tier 3 or 4. Getting hard to keep my mental strength up with this, it is all so depressing as this seems to be life from now on. So glad I am older and have had good times but I really feel for my DC's.

@Ecosse

She’ll have problems justifying putting Forth Valley in a higher tier than Dundee.

That's true. She'll probably put them both in 3.

@raviolidreaming

Assuming that Tier 0 has been introduced for the islands that have hardly seen any cases? Certainly Arran currently has a ridiculously harsh deal whilst the division is health board.

I think she said teir 0 was meant to be aspirational.

Aberdeen, I honestly don't know. We got a complete local lockdown after folk hit the pubs. But our numbers look kind of low compared to other areas now.

Glasgow's numbers have improved but I'm really scared she'll put us in 4. I can live with 3. I need somewhere to take the children! Plus they're keeping schools open regardless so I'll have to go to work anyway.

I’m hoping she’ll put Glasgow and Lanarkshire in tier 3 with the rest of the central belt tier 2. But I can’t see that happening for political reasons.

Interesting snippet from the document that “tier 2 and 3 measures would be intended to be in place for relatively short periods (2-4 weeks), and only for as long as required to get the virus down to a low, sustainable level.”

I think they will use tier 4 as a motivator to keep cases down and lanarkshire and glasgow will be tier 3

I'm in Edinburgh and I'm assuming tier 3 because that seems to roughly equate to the restrictions for Edinburgh just now. I really hope we can get it down to tier 1 for Christmas though.

@Fortherosesjoni70

Is it not health board areas? I reckon greater glasgow and clyde are a 4

No I think it will be local authorities, sure I read that.

She’ll keep restaurants and pubs shut for 6 months now.

tiers 3 and 4 - wearing a face covering while walking, cycling or running?

Doesn't actually say that

How is level 0 “almost normal” when you can’t car share and have to wear mask?!

Honestly what is the fucking point of all this? It’s very difficult to actually see the aim of this now.

Tbh I don’t think it matters what the tiers are that much. People will start ignoring it soon enough as it’s complete bollocks.

I’m in Aberdeen, and think we are essentially 2 now, and would expect to stay there. I’d say Central Belt will be 3, and think 4 will be kept up her sleeve for if cases go up massively.

I can’t see anywhere being zero at the moment.

All the chat about socialising outside made me laugh - from next week it will barely be light here, and it’s already bloody freezing.

Lanarkshire will be 3 at a minimum - what we are doing now is flattening the curve all be it slowly. The Lanarkshire hospitals are being hammered at the moment with high numbers of covid along side a busy normal workload, I think they are going to have to start cancelling non emergent procedures unless this eases.

@dementedpixie

Doesn't actually say that

levels 0-2 says: face coverings compulsory on public transport

levels 3-4 says: face coverings compulsory

@MadameBlobby

How is level 0 “almost normal” when you can’t car share and have to wear mask?!

Honestly what is the fucking point of all this? It’s very difficult to actually see the aim of this now.

it's mental. Surely zero should be normal? Are they going to introduce a basement level???

www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-protection-levels/pages/protection-level-4/

Level 4 involves closing more places so I dont think they will go straight to that

www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-protection-levels/pages/protection-level-3/

This sounds pretty much the same as what we have in Lanarkshire currently

One positive is that the elimination and zero-COVID strategy advocated by the likes of Devi Sridhar seems to have been ditched.

It was also good to hear Sturgeon talking about the economic and health issues caused by lockdown. But we’ll have to wait and see if this carries through into her decisions.

it's mental. Surely zero should be normal? Are they going to introduce a basement level???

Nuts.

Also being able to meet 8 people from households indoors. That doesn’t even let me, my sister, our families and parents meet up! How the fuck is that “normal”?

Gaslighting bastards

Normal my arse.

We're on the outskirts of Glasgow, fully expect that we'll be in level 3 for the foreseeable.

Her level 0 - described as like we had in August - was not normal. Limited capacity in shops. No concerts, no theatre, no live events. Book an appointment to visit the zoo or a museum. Masks. Social distancing, sanitising. Rules about where you can meet people, and how many people you can meet. Limited attendance at weddings, funerals. No visitors in hospitals, no visits in care homes. Quarantining when you travel overseas, or come back.

Like FUCK is that "near normal" and she is saying that's the best we can expect until we get a vaccine? And what if there's never a vaccine? Or if, as the experts predict, it's not the 100% cure that they have been saying it will be, but a way of lessening the chances of serious illness for the most vulnerable?

Masks outside everywhere? Just no.

Oh and even at level 0, I couldn't take my 3 kids to see my parents at the same time as my sister is there with her two kids as that would be 9 of us. But we might be able to sit in the garden. In January.