Mass evacuation of London

[madcatladyforever]

just seen yesterdays videos of the mass evacuation of people from London to go and spend christmas elsewhere before it's too late.
Well done Londeners thanks for spreading the virus mutation ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
Now waiting for tier 4 all over the country in the new year.
Because your christmas is so much more important than anybody elses health.
This is how it all started, no action in Wuhan, a few days later it's been flown all over the world, fantastic.
Mark my words the new year will be hell.

Mass evacuation!

Utterly ridiculous. No mass evacuation happening here. I'm sitting on my sofa in my home. Why would I want to leave? I don't see any of my neighbours leaving either.

Not everyone in London can afford a second home. Most of us are struggling to afford the first one.

if you live in the kind of place that nobody would choose to visit

Ha ha. Throwing fantastic shade there.

I was in Cornwall at half term in October and St Ives was thronging with families from Liverpool and Manchester. ( who were Tier 3 at the time). Some people will always prioritise what they want to do over what they should do and they happen to live everywhere.

You couldn't pay me to leave London. As a pp said, I have everything I need on my doorstep. All my friends and family are here except DSis who moved to a lovely quaint Northern town for marriage (been four years now and she still misses London terribly).

Well done the government for ensuring that, whatever is happening in one part of the county will also now happen everywhere else; would be a far better interpretation.

Having said that, viruses will virus and there is nothing anyone can do. All the precautions just slightly slow down the inevitable, which gives the virus many more life cycles in order to produce these mutations.

@PimlicoJo

Mass evacuation!

Utterly ridiculous. No mass evacuation happening here. I'm sitting on my sofa in my home. Why would I want to leave? I don't see any of my neighbours leaving either.

Not everyone in London can afford a second home. Most of us are struggling to afford the first one.

At least 4 people have arrived on our road today- 4 different households.

That is quite a high number I would say- they were here for the 1st lockdown as well- staying with parents.

Could they have circumstances you don’t know about that means they need to be there? Not having a go just curious

What if alot of these people just happened to be in London when the news came? They had tickets prebooked to travel home? Single people in support bubbles?

Things are not cut and dry.

The virus has already spread across other countries, it’s already been seen in Glasgow. It’s out there. It is not “the London virus”

Somebody needs to be gifted a grip for Christmas....

Another lockdown in January/February was always going to be the case because of the way reckless “restrictions” over the summer and lockdown 2.0. It will have nothing to do how people are behaving now.

News already reporting that "mutant" virus is heavily seeded in Wales - that's very quick if it only left London/south east last night.

@RelightMyPfizer. Why aren't you blaming the parents (who aren't "Londoners") for allowing them to stay? I'm presuming they would have stayed in London if their parents had said don't come.

Real story (if there is one) appears to be 'Selfish non-Londoners all across the country allowing their adult children to come home for Christmas and spread the virus more widely".

Those travelling are also going to be exposed to other people (not Londoners) while at "home" (not London) and bring whatever they catch from their non-London families back to London when they return to work. Thus, massively increasing the rates of infection in London. There's a lot to be said for having a London "exclusion zone" and not letting those who have left return to London after the holiday period.

There was no mass evacuation. Absolute garbage printed by the Daily Mail to hype up gullible grippers like you, OP.

Kings Cross station was half as busy as during ‘normal times’ yesterday at rush hour.

The ‘Londoners crowd the West End to go shopping’ photos were nonsense too. They showed queues because shops were sensibly operating one in/one out, social distancing rules.

Don’t believe the hype.

Waiiit I've missed the memo to evacuate, shit!
I've lived In london for 16 of my 34 years but still not a "Londoner" haha.

I won't be leaving as even with this new strain of rather stay in my nice suburb that's more pleasant than a lot of the places people are accused if moving to

@AlpineSnow

In a minute someone will start a thread about how Covid19 was invented by Londoners in the London Laboratory of Evil in Chelsea or something

Sssh don't spoil The Plan!

@NannyGythaOgg

Well done the government for ensuring that, whatever is happening in one part of the county will also now happen everywhere else; would be a far better interpretation.

Having said that, viruses will virus and there is nothing anyone can do. All the precautions just slightly slow down the inevitable, which gives the virus many more life cycles in order to produce these mutations.

This

How do you know where those people were going? You can be on a train for an hour from Kings Cross and still be in Tier 4.

A lot of those people may have gone to London in the morning (legal) and would have gone on trains in the evening even if there wasn't an announcement because they had a return ticket.

People in Tier 3/4 still have to go to work. I'd say that people on trains on a Saturday night are most likely in jobs where you can't wfh and the Tier 4 announcement means that they are out of a job for a while.

(according to yen Internet) train companies can only sell half as many tickets as usual and together with it being Christmas and students being encouraged to travel home, it was inevitable that people needed trains.

We have a lot of spread because we can't and won't enforce the rules like in China. Even if they'd cancelled the trains, lorries would deliver the virus up the M1.

Don't forget to add blame the families in the North who invited their family in London back. If these people didn't have a place to stay then they'd be less likely to travel.

The new strain has unfortunately been found in Glasgow so I suspect it's already up North.

As if there was not going to be another full lockdown in January anyway.

The new strain has unfortunately been found in Glasgow so I suspect it's already up North

We sent an advance party of Pearly Kings up there last month.

I'm a Londoner. Born and bred here.

Still here. Most of us are.

There's nothing for us in the provinces .

Goady enough for you, OP?

Mass evacuation 😂😂 drama llama

@SoupDragon

We sent an advance party of Pearly Kings up there last month.

😄😄😄😄

We sent an advance party of Pearly Kings up there last month.

It's all the northerners who live here going home for Christmas. 🙄

Agreed - it’s people coming “home” to their parents’ houses causing the issue. Irresponsible fuckers. And their parents are as bad allowing it to happen.

A few months ago there was a lot of discontent that there were so many restrictions in the North-West. A few weeks ago, same posters, more stories of discontent that the lockdown was to help London, even though cases were dropping in the North-West. Then more stories of discontent that London would apparently never get restrictions like the north of England. Now London has new restrictions we have bunch of Northern commuting workers, shoppers, uni students etc going home plus a handful of idiots, but the story is that they're all Londoners fleeing (to where?). Is the next story to be that people caught covid by mixing over Christmas and this was all a plan where only Londoners were to be protected, or what?
To those posters; my Nana was northern and used to ask if you'd like salt and vinegar with your chips.

See I must come from a hard water area as I don't find it much worse than where I'm from although admit it is hard