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Do you think tier five will happen

537 replies

Tellmelies65 · 28/12/2020 13:18

Or just just being said as scare tactic? What else could they really stop people doing?

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Marmite27 · 28/12/2020 13:43

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PrincessNutNuts · 28/12/2020 13:44

@Ifailed

Who would enforce Tier 5?
We will. Because the deaths are so horrific and our local hospital is overrun.
LemonSquirtInTheEyeOfLife · 28/12/2020 13:45

@notevenat20

Everyone could be limited to one hour outdoors a day. We could all be made to install an app on our phone that tracks us. So many options...
This wouldn't be practical or enforceable. It takes us (for example) half an hour just to get to the supermarket. We can't manage with online delivery for financial and allergy reasons, they send unreasonable substitutes or just don't send half the order, if we can get a slot at all. And we can't always afford £40 per week on groceries.
PinkSparklyPussyCat · 28/12/2020 13:47

In France you have to fill out a form explaining t why your trip out of the house is permitted whenever you leave the house (when they were in lockdown). That could be in tier 5.

Where do you get the forms? Not everyone has the internet or a printer.

A stay at home order. Streets like they were in the first lockdown. It's unusual for someone to walk past your house. Groups walking together are not seen. Quiet roads. You can see one person, outside, at a 2m distance.

That depends where you live. I live near the river and there's always been people walking past (as they are perfectly entitled to do).

EagleFlight · 28/12/2020 13:48

Tier 4 is very much like the November lockdown. Tier 5 could be on a par to the March/April lockdown.

PrincessNutNuts · 28/12/2020 13:49

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

In France you have to fill out a form explaining t why your trip out of the house is permitted whenever you leave the house (when they were in lockdown). That could be in tier 5.

Where do you get the forms? Not everyone has the internet or a printer.

A stay at home order. Streets like they were in the first lockdown. It's unusual for someone to walk past your house. Groups walking together are not seen. Quiet roads. You can see one person, outside, at a 2m distance.

That depends where you live. I live near the river and there's always been people walking past (as they are perfectly entitled to do).

The "leaving the house" forms were delivered. One per household per week
KitKatastrophe · 28/12/2020 13:49

@notevenat20

Everyone could be limited to one hour outdoors a day. We could all be made to install an app on our phone that tracks us. So many options...
Why are people so keen to have apps tracking your every move? If someone wanted to exercise longer than an hour they just wouldn't take their phone with them. Or do you think maybe we should all get chips in our arms instead? They could track where we are and also who we are visiting.
PrincessNutNuts · 28/12/2020 13:51

No one is keen.

The OP asked for options.

MistleTOEboughski · 28/12/2020 13:52

You can fuck off with your unfairness. It was fine for the south to be in tier 1/2 when places in the north haven’t been out of tier 3 since March. Indeed, fuck right off.
Yes but look how much division that caused. This would be even worse.

KnowingMeKnowingYule · 28/12/2020 13:52

@Barbie222

Pigeons and primary age children only allowed out of the house. No eye contact allowed with the pigeons.
GrinGrin
KitKatastrophe · 28/12/2020 13:53

The "leaving the house" forms were delivered. One per household per week

Really? That doesnt seem like enough. If someone is going out to work each day, plus a trip to the supermarket, plus allowed exercise each day. Times by 2 or more adults. Would need at least 15 a week.

StormBaby · 28/12/2020 13:53

Tier 4 is pretty much no lockdown! It’s just retail, pubs and gyms shut. Everybody else is just living life normally

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 28/12/2020 13:54

The "leaving the house" forms were delivered. One per household per week

So only one of us could leave the house once per week? Ridiculous. What happens when you run out of something essential or it doesn't arrive on your delivery (if you can get one that is)?

As for downloading an app to track us, I really hope that no one would comply! I know we can be tracked from our mobiles before anyone say something but this sinister. Not that it's possible, not everyone has a smart phone for a start.

PrincessNutNuts · 28/12/2020 13:54

@KitKatastrophe

The "leaving the house" forms were delivered. One per household per week

Really? That doesnt seem like enough. If someone is going out to work each day, plus a trip to the supermarket, plus allowed exercise each day. Times by 2 or more adults. Would need at least 15 a week.

In some country's lockdowns one person went out to shop and that was it.
PrincessNutNuts · 28/12/2020 13:54

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

The "leaving the house" forms were delivered. One per household per week

So only one of us could leave the house once per week? Ridiculous. What happens when you run out of something essential or it doesn't arrive on your delivery (if you can get one that is)?

As for downloading an app to track us, I really hope that no one would comply! I know we can be tracked from our mobiles before anyone say something but this sinister. Not that it's possible, not everyone has a smart phone for a start.

You make sure that doesn't happen or go without.
PinkSparklyPussyCat · 28/12/2020 13:55

@StormBaby

Tier 4 is pretty much no lockdown! It’s just retail, pubs and gyms shut. Everybody else is just living life normally
Really? It's certainly not normal for me. I would normally be working in an office, seeing family and friends, going for a random drive in my car for something to do
PinkSparklyPussyCat · 28/12/2020 13:57

You make sure that doesn't happen or go without.

Stupid idea, it should be one form per person per week minimum, emergencies happen.

TammyHullfigure · 28/12/2020 13:57

@notevenat20

Everyone could be limited to one hour outdoors a day. We could all be made to install an app on our phone that tracks us. So many options...
Sounds like a fucking nightmare. No one would put up with this shit.
JacobReesMogadishu · 28/12/2020 13:59

I think in Spain people couldn’t go out even for exercise for a while.

EagleFlight · 28/12/2020 14:00

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

The "leaving the house" forms were delivered. One per household per week

So only one of us could leave the house once per week? Ridiculous. What happens when you run out of something essential or it doesn't arrive on your delivery (if you can get one that is)?

As for downloading an app to track us, I really hope that no one would comply! I know we can be tracked from our mobiles before anyone say something but this sinister. Not that it's possible, not everyone has a smart phone for a start.

Is there really anything that is so essential you absolutely could not get by until the next delivery? I’m really struggling to think of anything that could be an essential life or death situation to go without for a week (and I’m someone who thought Maltesers should count as essential in the first lockdown!) and the only thing I can come up with is formula for babies who aren’t breastfed.
EmmanuelleMakro · 28/12/2020 14:00

In tier 5 they will confiscate everyone's car keys and we will have to wear a full diving suit and air tanks to the supermarket.Xmas Grin

EagleFlight · 28/12/2020 14:01

@JacobReesMogadishu

I think in Spain people couldn’t go out even for exercise for a while.
Certainly in Italy at one point you were restricted to 100 or 200 metres from your home if you did go out.
AgentProvocateur · 28/12/2020 14:02

Where I am, our lockdown was go out for food and/or medicine once every three days and you had to apply for a permit to do that. No exercise, no dog walks, and a total nighttime curfew. That’s what you call a lockdown.

Subordinateclause · 28/12/2020 14:03

@PrincessNutNuts

We had s softer lockdown than many other countries so there's plenty of scope to toughen up from Tier 4 which is even softer than the original Lockdown.

Close the schools, close everything except supermarkets. Click and collect for things like hardware stores. No mooching round the garden centre or B&Q as a family for fun. One person does the shopping once a week. A limit on how many people can be in a supermarket at the same time. 2 metre social distancing.

A stay at home order. Streets like they were in the first lockdown. It's unusual for someone to walk past your house. Groups walking together are not seen. Quiet roads. You can see one person, outside, at a 2m distance.

Contrast this with our local garden centre whose car park is full today. They're having a sale. I bet it's heaving inside. It's bad enough in the car park with kids running around colliding with older people getting help from staff to unload full trolleys into their boots. Too many people in one place.

Unusual to see someone walk past your house? Completely different to where I live - going for a family walk was all people used to do in first lockdown. I'd sit in the living room with my toddler and we'd spot people taking their dogs for a walk. I used to wonder about the people who 'used up' their one exercise outing early in the morning, as it left them such a long day at home to fill.
PinkSparklyPussyCat · 28/12/2020 14:03

Not everyone has the money to buy or the space to store a weeks shopping though.