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Mass evacuation of London

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madcatladyforever · 20/12/2020 09:36

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.

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Daddyatethemincepies · 20/12/2020 11:11

Step away from the sherry, OP. London transport is always heaving. Most of those people "mass evacuating" London would have actually been commuters and Christmas shoppers returning home to where they live. People travel from all over the country to shop in London at Christmas. My friends from Liverpool were in London last weekend for this very reason, they then popped by our house unannounced on their way back to Liverpool and spread their Liverpool/London germs in my home town, and they were planning to pop into another town on their way home to see some other friends in another town. Not spreading Covid around the place is everyone's responsibility, not just one regions.

Without the strictest of house arrests for the entire nation it is impossible to control a virus, and it certainly isn't the fault of an entire city or region. And maybe stop whining about "Londoners" and actually think what Tier 4 means for those affected. Because as someone who is in Tier 4 (not a Londoner) and who has barely seen anyone or done anything since March, it is fucking shit.

Vintagevixen · 20/12/2020 11:11

I was at London Bridge station last night - very quiet. The mail obviously found a busier station, took a photo from the best angle to make it look packed. Then slapped it on the headlines in big letters.

New variant Covid was identified in Kent on September 20th - why all the fuss about it now eh? Could it be to push the fear agenda and get us all to blame each other again Hmmm?

Alan McNally, professor of evolutionary genomics at the university of Birmingham has tested samples from all over the country (NOT just London/south east) for week ending 16/12. 70% of these samples are the new strain so its already everywhere anyway.

AcornAutumn · 20/12/2020 11:11

@TheoriginalLEM

The new strain WILL spread outside of London, it already has. The whole country should be in lockdown. They have known about this for WEEKS!! they knew and yet still allowed people to make plans for Christmas.

Also can somebody please tell me why i am expected to go to work where socially distancing is virtually impossible, my Dp can still continue to visit multiple households every day, often with vulnerable people. But i cannot, following the death of my mum on Thursday, have my mentally vulnerable daughter visit on Christmas day?? Can somebody please find the humanity in that

What’s the situation? It might be covered by law - I have posted updated Tier 4 as a thread- but it does say the list is not exhaustive. Can we help?
millymokk · 20/12/2020 11:11

Surely people would have been less compliant with the last lockdown if they knew it wasn't possible to save Christmas?

AcornAutumn · 20/12/2020 11:12

@Laiste

OP been back at all? No?

Surprise surprise.

Don't rise to this shit and idiots wont keep lighting the touch paper.

This poster isn’t usually an idiot though. I think people are going funny under the stress.
pumpkinpie01 · 20/12/2020 11:13

Normal Daily Mail propaganda , same paper that photographed my 2nd year uni dd and 3 of her housemates heading to the park but apparently they were 'freshers flouting the rules by flocking to the pubs ' Confused

OverTheRainbow88 · 20/12/2020 11:13

Before London was in tier 4 I know loads of friends who live bath/Bristol etc and commute to London most weeks, so I think the mutated version was spreading any how.

BunsyGirl · 20/12/2020 11:14

A colleague grabbed a bag and quickly left (SE not London) after Boris’ announcement. A young single Northern guy going back to his family rather than being alone at Christmas. There will have been many people in similar situations on those trains. Northerners going home.

nosswith · 20/12/2020 11:14

Well I am staying put and my neighbours are still here.

If there had been the change to Christmas bubbles announced on Wednesday when they should have been, there would not have been the large rush yesterday evening. Neither would there be some people who bought food for Christmas celebrations now reduced in numbers, which may in part be wasted.

Blame the government and please never vote Tory again if you did.

PrincessBuggerPants · 20/12/2020 11:15

They weren't Londoners. They were people who reside in London but are originally from other places, going home to stay with family for Christmas.

Belladonna12 · 20/12/2020 11:16

Whilst I agree they are selfish idiots, there can't have been that many people compared with the population of London. Going on a crowded train is particularly stupid though, and I don't get the point. Given that many were breaking rules anyway (by visiting other households ) why rush to do it and sit on a crowded train? They could have waited for a couple of days.

Thingstodotoday · 20/12/2020 11:17

Ha love it when a thread started by a sanctimonious OP doesn’t go the way they intended.
Those “Londeners” eh! Did one of your cats type the post for you?

TheoriginalLEM · 20/12/2020 11:17

@acornautumn thankyou. It is actually academic because I have the bloody thing already and have potentially infected DD2 when i went to tell her about mum. I only got test results today. We haven't made a decision on Christmas really yet. I don't want her to come but i also wont say no, she is mentally unwell anyway and that is more of a danger to her than covid

roarfeckingroarr · 20/12/2020 11:18

ODFOD

x2boys · 20/12/2020 11:18

People are selfish and do their own thing but I don't think that's limited to London ,I'm in Bolton and when we had the highest rates of infection in the uk a few months ago,plenty of people around me refused ,to follow the rules and guidelines too ,this is why the virus keeps spreading .

Babyroobs · 20/12/2020 11:18

@AgeOfExploration

Grin at “mass evacuation”... there are almost 9 million people in London; do a few crowded trains on a Friday night before Christmas equal a mass evacuation?
Yes the issue is a lot of people from London will commute potentially hundreds of miles away or may work in London during the week and head home at weekends. There is no way this strain of virus can be contained in London now. It will already be everywhere that is commutable from London.
SelfIcellation · 20/12/2020 11:19

I've lived in London for 23 years and work on the Tube.

That footage is busy for a Saturday night, more so because for the last ten months transport hubs have been dead compared to previous years.

Having said that I think this lot were out of towners or students.

My parents and wider family live in the south- and West Midlands. My dad is in poor health. I haven't left London since autumn last year. It has had an effect on my mental health and I can't help visualising the M25 as a cage (I am an anxious depressive person) but I'm gritting my teeth and trying to carry on for the sake of my husband and daughter who are Londoners. My dad has said he doesn't want to see us in person until the risk has massively reduced. My mum misses us, but has accepted the situation.

I think that everyone's circumstances are different, and how we deal with them are different too. I am not judging these people, I don't know their stories. There was no Mass Evacuation. That conjures up images of fleeing refugees from war. This is the Daily Mail's sensationalism. That's all.

WorraLiberty · 20/12/2020 11:19

@TheoriginalLEM Sorry to hear about your Mum Thanks

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 20/12/2020 11:20

@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.
If 60% of the new mutation is in London where do you think the other 40% is?

You will find it is already all over the place. Wales are saying now the new mutation is why things have got so bad there recently.

You need to read more than the daily mail or social media.

The tier 4 thing is to protect London and our hospitals as the population is so large. It also gives the government a good excuse why the virus spread after Christmas. Blame those that left London I can see it now. Not the people that mixed households on Christmas day.

The whole thing is a mess and people want something that isn't a invisible virus to blame. Stop making things worse by believing stupid news stories and government spin.

AdoptedBumpkin · 20/12/2020 11:20

Do you really think it is only Londoners who break the rules?

WorraLiberty · 20/12/2020 11:21

Yes the issue is a lot of people from London will commute potentially hundreds of miles away or may work in London during the week and head home at weekends. There is no way this strain of virus can be contained in London now. It will already be everywhere that is commutable from London.

Exactly! Everyone's been told to go to work if they can't work from home.

The North is probably riddled with it.

laudemio · 20/12/2020 11:21

60% of cases in London are the new mutation, 40% the older variants. Not 60% of the new mutation cases are in London and 40% elsewhere.

Vintagevixen · 20/12/2020 11:21

Daily Mail - loves a good misleading headline!

Not sure why people would be panicking anyway - I'm going to get on a train Monday to collect DD from her dads in London, they are still running! I was up and down lots in the first lockdown to take DD to her dads for visitation and to go to work with no problems as well.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 20/12/2020 11:22

I agree OP. Stupid and totally selfish.

HopeYourHighHorseBucks · 20/12/2020 11:24

Last night I was on an amusing thread that described it as fleeing, that has vanished though. Now we have mass evacuation 😂

Where are they going? Who is inviting them? What about if they live there but travel in to London to work? All questions that were asked yesterday, while the OP shouted "BUT HULL"

New year will be hell because the virus will spread regardless, you can try slow it down but it will get around eventually, that's what viruses do. I dont know anyone who woke up yesterday panicked and thought, must head to the north.