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Is Greater Manchester heading towards another local lockdown?

45 replies

NatMoz · 19/05/2021 17:35

The news surrounding Bolton is really worrying and the Indian variant is starting to slowly spread throughout GM.

I live in Stockport and I think we all feel as though GM has been under some sort of restriction since March 2020.

What's frustrating for me is that I'm only 2 miles from the Cheshire border.

Along with everyone else in this county, I'm pretty frustrated at the prospect of potential further restrictions which don't even seem to work.

I despair and definitely don't want to be faced with some stay at home order just as summer is arriving and I have (UK) camping weekends/cottages planned.

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Devlesko · 19/05/2021 17:37

Wouldn't surprise me.
It's awful we've had the longest lockdown than anywhere else, and the highest tier.
I doubt anyone will take notice anyway tbh.

Wellbythebloodyhell · 19/05/2021 17:38

Local lockdowns don't work people just travel to the next district along, prime example was Liverpool before Xmas, crammed with people from Manchester, Chester, Warrington who was all under lockdown restrictions

Devlesko · 19/05/2021 17:39

Where else is it OP. I know of Bolton, bury and Darwin, I believe.
Or is that not right.
I'm a town very close to Bolton.

Missfelipe · 19/05/2021 17:57

I feel the same OP. We’re in another borough but I can walk into Cheshire in 15mins from my front door. We’ve stuck to the rules the whole way through and if they put us through it again I won’t be doing it.

All year long we’ve been miserable and at breaking point while those around us doing as they please seem happy. I don’t think I can take much more.

It’s incredibly unfair to lump all of Manchester in together. I know they make the point of people travelling for work etc but I travel to work outside of GM so where should it end?

Original poster
NatMoz · 19/05/2021 17:59

@Devlesko

Where else is it OP. I know of Bolton, bury and Darwin, I believe. Or is that not right. I'm a town very close to Bolton.
I think these are the main areas for now.

People are correct, local lockdowns just do not work and Boris should have learnt from this based on 2020. Cheshire was so busy with shoppers and the restaurants packed, again only 5 mins from my house! Unfortunately it has to be an all or nothing approach but i do find our area is constantly punished.

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Cornishscone · 19/05/2021 18:00

Surely not, if the vaccine works?

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NatMoz · 19/05/2021 18:02

@Missfelipe

I feel the same OP. We’re in another borough but I can walk into Cheshire in 15mins from my front door. We’ve stuck to the rules the whole way through and if they put us through it again I won’t be doing it.

All year long we’ve been miserable and at breaking point while those around us doing as they please seem happy. I don’t think I can take much more.

It’s incredibly unfair to lump all of Manchester in together. I know they make the point of people travelling for work etc but I travel to work outside of GM so where should it end?

Absolutely! I'm the same, I work in Cheshire in normal circumstances (although have been wfh for the last 14 months).

I really need a break, I've been working solid and we are going for a meal tomorrow night. May as well enjoy it while it lasts!!!!

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DistrictCommissioner · 19/05/2021 18:05

Had a very stressed anxious phone call from my mum about this just now. I don’t think GM can cope with any more.

MiddleParking · 19/05/2021 18:07

They can fuck right off if they so much as consider it. Who would be complying? No one in Trafford or Stockport, why the fuck should we?

Spongecake23 · 19/05/2021 18:09

If hospitalisation rates stay low, surely they won’t need to ?

MrsPsmalls · 19/05/2021 18:13

Rubbish as it is of course you would comply! We have a long awaited 90th birthday celebration booked in a restaurant in Stockport end of June. If local lockdown happens then it can't go ahead - the restaurant are not going to risk being fined so we can party.

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NatMoz · 19/05/2021 18:17

@MrsPsmalls

Rubbish as it is of course you would comply! We have a long awaited 90th birthday celebration booked in a restaurant in Stockport end of June. If local lockdown happens then it can't go ahead - the restaurant are not going to risk being fined so we can party.
Well if restaurants are shut then no one has a choice but to comply!
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Medstudent12 · 19/05/2021 18:25

Agreed. Manchester hit so hard all through 2020. I don’t think people in areas (except maybe Leicester) get how hard it’s been, we had no respite.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 19/05/2021 18:28

@MrsPsmalls

Rubbish as it is of course you would comply! We have a long awaited 90th birthday celebration booked in a restaurant in Stockport end of June. If local lockdown happens then it can't go ahead - the restaurant are not going to risk being fined so we can party.
They can shut businesses but they can't stop people mixing in homes, which is how it's spreading. Local lockdowns are pointless.
Missfelipe · 19/05/2021 18:29

When I spoke to friends down south last year they couldn’t wrap their head around what it was like here. They more or less had a fairly normal run of it until later in the year.

If GM goes into lockdown I won’t be staying local. We haven’t seen family it a year and plan to tour around everyone next week. We will be going.

MiddleParking · 19/05/2021 18:30

@MrsPsmalls

Rubbish as it is of course you would comply! We have a long awaited 90th birthday celebration booked in a restaurant in Stockport end of June. If local lockdown happens then it can't go ahead - the restaurant are not going to risk being fined so we can party.
Obviously I’m not suggesting anyone would be able to go to closed restaurants, but virtually no one would be following any rules on household mixing. It would be completely pointless.
Tetrixxs · 19/05/2021 19:39

Why though if hospitals are fine?

Watapalava · 19/05/2021 19:41

They won’t lockdown

They only care about hospitalisations and deaths - both ridiculously low

Dugee · 19/05/2021 19:49

@Devlesko

Where else is it OP. I know of Bolton, bury and Darwin, I believe. Or is that not right. I'm a town very close to Bolton.
Wigan looks like it's on the increase today.
TheKeatingFive · 19/05/2021 19:50

It is surely time to acknowledge that local lockdowns don’t work.

Elliewelly · 19/05/2021 20:02

Didn't know Bury was on the list, thought it was Blackburn

GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 19/05/2021 20:08

Well if people aren't (and won't) sticking to the rules then surely that's why it's spreading?

CantGetNoSleep73 · 19/05/2021 20:24

Wouldn't surprise me in the least! We have suffered a crap load in GM the past year. When London had the variant it was suddenly all lock down.

When are some people going to realise what an idiot Bojo is?
He along with MSM is getting people to turn on other people instead of actually stopping flights to countries.

I have said to many friends I feared a new mutant variant would appear after the elections and then you about more lockdowns, slowing the roadmap etc

There has been so much bad news on the az vaccine that of course they are now blaming that on the rising cases - not the fact flights have been allowed constantly.

It's all the halfway house that got us into the mess in the first place.
Do this but if you can't you can do this...
It's too ambiguous -
I will not be doing anymore lockdowns this has gone on too long
They haven't learnt a bloody thing in the past 15 months

CantGetNoSleep73 · 19/05/2021 20:26

Let's not forget either this was all about protecting the NHS and look how much money they have thrown at it Hmm how well they have paid the nurses - I'm sure the nhs would have preferred cash instead of claps!

Katie517 · 19/05/2021 20:51

I really don’t think they will go down the local lockdown route as I think they know compliance will be very low and would be incredibly unfair to group all of GM in as one again when the issue clearly lies in certain areas

I’m in the south but there is no way I would comply with any local lockdown that grouped my rural location with very low case numbers in with our county town with higher case numbers that is 35 mins away. We live on the border of 3 counties and never set foot in our own county town and I would not be willing to give up freedoms and the last part of my mat leave just because my postcode starts with a certain letter!