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Announcement tomorrow what are youre predictions?

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Amira19 · 29/12/2020 14:25

PM is due to make an announcement tomorrow what are youre predictions. I suspect larges area of the North moving from tier 3 to tier 4 and potentially tier 5 (closing schools) in London. Personally I think a full lockdown like March is required too many are mixing between the tiers and thats all those posting in social media.

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TragedyHands · 29/12/2020 23:55

Trafford Centre has been packed, the pictures were unbelievable.
You'd have thought they were from a couple of years ago.

Mumisnotmyonlyname · 30/12/2020 00:04

OP where did you see that an announcement was planned?

MummaPI · 30/12/2020 00:04

Still looking like secondary schools closed but not primary 🤷‍♀️

Silvergreen · 30/12/2020 00:33

All of England tier 4, London and south east tier 5 April style.

Itisasecret · 30/12/2020 00:39

A lot of the press are rehashing the same stuff. Should, could, would. I think personally there is radio silence around issues because they don’t want it to explode. So, people out shopping, a last meal in T2. Plus they know the schools issue will kick off, so they want it watertight.

This reminds me of the spring, when the press genuinely didn’t know at first and ran with what they wanted.

I think restrictions like March and all schools closed to all apart from KW and V. I hope I’m wrong but I think there is radio silence for a reason.

thegcatsmother · 30/12/2020 00:47

@Emmie12345

Cases have hugely increased in Cornwall and we have one hospital only
Having looked at this www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-area-area-coronavirus-cluster-4840371, 71 of those positive tests wouldn't be going to Treliske, but Derriford, or locally, like Launceston.
Silvergreen · 30/12/2020 00:50

@wanderings

I'm sure that once the vaccine is very much underway, the government are going to pretend that it's having the right effect, whether it does or not; I think they see it as the only way out of this hole they've dug themselves into. If they have been exaggerating the doom and gloom lately (which I strongly suspect they have, to keep people frightened and obedient over Christmas, and ready to accept school closures etc.) I'm sure that when they feel the time is right, they're going to issue secret orders to hospital bosses to say "er, now it's time to... er... play down the threat, we need the public spending again, the magic money tree is running out of leaves; keep any covid deaths hushed up from now on."
Secret orders to hospital bosses 😂

What's it like being you?

ineedaholidaynow · 30/12/2020 00:54

@thegcatsmother would Launceston hospital have the facilities for COVID patients?

Storingpro · 30/12/2020 00:55

No idea but based on this ( www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4119911-To-think-it-s-time-to-cancel-the-2021-exams ) people seem to be willing to close schools and cancel next years exams so...

Agoodbriskwalk · 30/12/2020 00:56

Still looking like secondary schools closed but not primary

Then it's completely pointless. People will not keep their secondary age kids apart if their younger ones are milling about and mixing in their hundreds, and they're seeing their pals at the school gate. Parents will not deny their little darlings the sleepovers and playdates either because 'They're all in the same bubble'. People will not curtail their activities when they can see schools open, roads busy as ever. And young kids will keep (as they have been) spreading it to their families and the wider community, and to the poor, poor school staff.

AlwaysLatte · 30/12/2020 01:01

I think there will be a full lockdown. We've got another couple of weeks of school off so I think they need to take the opportunity they failed to take at October half term and shut everything else down as well as extend the school holidays so the NHS can have a chance to breathe.

Ozzie9523 · 30/12/2020 01:09

@pinkdinosaursarereal

The NHS gets overwhelmed every bloody year. This whole thing is ridiculous. I can't live my life incase I need a hospital bed. If they close schools my reception aged child doesn't even get to learn the basics at incase he catches a virus and gives it to someone who might need a hospital bed. Ahhhh I really hope they don't close schools.
I agree and have thought this from the start. All the ‘protect the NHS’ really irritated me. They should be throwing money at the NHS so they CAN cope - sadly it may be too late for this pandemic but I’m guessing there might be others in the future 🤷‍♀️
thegcatsmother · 30/12/2020 01:15

ineed I don't know -, but as they have inpatients at Launceston, they might be able to deal with mild cases. I know they have had COVID patients in Tavistock Hospital, and that is small too.

Having just seem a chart ranked by LA, Cornwall is the fourth lowest LA in the chart. Only 3 other LAs have lower case numbers than we do
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9092741/Is-Cumbria-brink-Tier-Four.html

whereismormonjesus · 30/12/2020 01:25

@RedToothBrush

Very good point about Trafford and Warrington and I think that is something that explains the sudden spike in Trafford. I’m in south Trafford, DH works in Warrington and both of my kids are at school in Warrington. I know many, many people who live in one local authority and work in the other.

Greater Manchester is so interconnected though, with the Metrolink etc and the new strain that is probably causing the issue in Trafford will blow up in all boroughs soon.

As I said before, I think we’ll be were Birmingham is now in 2 weeks tops and I wish they’d just put us in Tier 4 now along with Birmingham (preferably a nationwide lockdown) rather than kicking the can down the road. I think Andy Burnham has a lot to answer for over his tantrum about putting Manchester into Tier 3 originally, he created a very popular “us versus them” rhetoric that may make the government slower to act for Manchester to prove a point.

Agoodbriskwalk · 30/12/2020 01:28

If they close schools my reception aged child doesn't even get to learn the basics at incase he catches a virus and gives it to someone who might need a hospital bed.

Then I guess your Reception aged child will live out his entire life not knowing how to read or write. Or.... he'll catch up. Reception aged children are 4 or 5. They don't need to know how to read and write. They are just learning to do their own coats up FFS. People don't need to die so that that can take place in a group setting.

Blonk · 30/12/2020 01:34

I just can't see them closing schools. I think they'll stick to deferring secondary for a week, and primary will go back on the 4th.

Exams2021 · 30/12/2020 01:34

@Blonk

I just can't see them closing schools. I think they'll stick to deferring secondary for a week, and primary will go back on the 4th.
But what else is there left to close that would make any sort of difference?
Blonk · 30/12/2020 02:08

Don't get me wrong, I think they absolutely should at this point...but they won't.

Didyeaye1 · 30/12/2020 02:14

@Storingpro

No idea but based on this ( www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4119911-To-think-it-s-time-to-cancel-the-2021-exams ) people seem to be willing to close schools and cancel next years exams so...
I find it really surprising how comfortable people are with schools reclosing and all that goes with that.
Didyeaye1 · 30/12/2020 02:14

Would definitely recommend people check the above thread out

borntohula · 30/12/2020 02:22

What's the fucking point in closing anything indefinitely? The virus will still be there when they reopen.

PrincessNutNuts · 30/12/2020 03:02

@borntohula

What's the fucking point in closing anything indefinitely? The virus will still be there when they reopen.
Vaccine
TheAlphaandtheOmega · 30/12/2020 05:23

Expecting Northants and Leicestershire to go into tier 4, mentioned on BBC news website maybe others in Midlands too.

Us in Northants have had an influx from MK and Beds though I am near the Beds border and those living just over in Beds tier 4 haven't really got any choice but to come into Northants for shopping as they are their local shops. It would mean a ten mile journey if they didn't use our supermarkets which are under a couple of miles for them so of course they must use them.

flowerycurtain · 30/12/2020 06:17

@TheAlphaandtheOmega I think we are up the road from you.

Are you near RL? I'm not sure all those queues of shoppers are from Northants!

Quite surprised we weren't in t4 last time.

TheAlphaandtheOmega · 30/12/2020 06:29

Yes, I am near RL and those queues are not all local, I need to return something to Next and there is always a big queue. Many from MK will be shopping there.

I feel very sorry for those just over Beds border, a lot of older folk live there so I expect they will be using the supermarkets

I think we missed tier 4 by the skin of our teeth last time and it was only because geographically we are Midlands, Peterborough went into tier 4 as it is geographically the East