Local lockdown is no more 🙌🏼

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They’ve done an enormous u-turn 🤣 happy days!

Good. I'm not in one of those areas but it was grossly unfair.

Give them a few days and they'll take it national and make it enforcable

Just bizarre. My mum is in Bedford and I'm not, she's really worried about us visiting now. She was finally starting to relax after an awful, lonely year.

@Suranjeep

Give them a few days and they'll take it national and make it enforcable

I don't think they will. There will be a revolt.

So what has it changed to, just 'be careful' ?

Actually that just comments on travel in and out of areas not the other stuff?

There never was a local lockdown.

There was guidance that if high risk areas you don't travel around the country and meet outdoors where possible.

All other restrictions that were removed nationally were removed.

Odd that people are pleased that now it's not recommended to stay local but to travel nationally and possibly seed it further afield and possibly need a national (actual) lockdown.

It's similar to what they are doing with travel to amber countries, advising against it but not banning it, then they can say it is the people's fault...scapegoating people again

@itsgettingwierd

There never was a local lockdown.

There was guidance that if high risk areas you don't travel around the country and meet outdoors where possible.

All other restrictions that were removed nationally were removed.

Odd that people are pleased that now it's not recommended to stay local but to travel nationally and possibly seed it further afield and possibly need a national (actual) lockdown.

No one would have followed "recommendations" though anyway.

@Waxonwaxoff0 that was said last time, and the time before but it never happened.

Too many people believing its to "keep them safe"

Wax whether they followed them or not is irrelevant.

There weren't local lockdowns just sensible guidance about not seeding a variant nationally. 🤷‍♀️

There never was a local lockdown, but IMO if you're in one of these areas then it's pretty selfish to start travelling round the country at half term. Particularly if you're out and about enjoying hospitality (esp if unvaccinated) or travelling with school age children.

Wonder what happened there. Haven’t really kept up with who and why a reneg

@BoredtoTiers

There never was a local lockdown, but IMO if you're in one of these areas then it's pretty selfish to start travelling round the country at half term. Particularly if you're out and about enjoying hospitality (esp if unvaccinated) or travelling with school age children.

It really isn't. People have been staying home for the best part of a year. They can't help the area they live in. You can't continue to have a 2 tiered society where people who can afford to live in a wealthy rural village are allowed to live their lives as normal and those who live in crowded cities because that's all they can afford are penalised.

Well I won't be travelling to a high risk area and I would hope that people within those areas will make sensible choices. There is still a lot of things that can be done safely including meeting family

Wax do you think it's a really sensible idea if you live in a hotspot area to start travelling all over?

I've changed my half term plans due to the current outbreaks - not because I want to but because it's the sensible thing to do.

@itsgettingwierd

Wax do you think it's a really sensible idea if you live in a hotspot area to start travelling all over?

I've changed my half term plans due to the current outbreaks - not because I want to but because it's the sensible thing to do.

I couldn't care less what people do. If it's allowed then it's allowed, the general public don't have the right to police it.

@BoredtoTiers

There never was a local lockdown, but IMO if you're in one of these areas then it's pretty selfish to start travelling round the country at half term. Particularly if you're out and about enjoying hospitality (esp if unvaccinated) or travelling with school age children.

It's not selfish There is no lockdown, you can't expect people to stay holed up indefinitely when there is no rules that say they have to. As long as people are being sensible, social distancing for example they should be able to travel perfectly well around the country.

If it's allowed then it's allowed, the general public don't have the right to police it

Exactly!

The virus doesn't care about what's 'fair' or unfair. FWIW I live in a city and despite being vaccinated and working from home, I've had to abide by travel restrictions as a result of where I live, not my own personal risk factors.

I'm generally for people exercising their judgement, but if you're e.g. in Bolton, the rate of infections among teenagers is far outstripping the rates in the rest of the country & they are not vaccinated. Stoating round the country with teens in tow or jumping on a plane with them is absolutely selfish. Likewise if you're going out locally to hospitality.

Wax do you want schools to shut again?

It's not your fault if you live in a high risk area but we all have a part to play in not spreading the virus.

The choices people make, may get us into a really shit situation again where we are all in lockdown with schools shut.

I hope to god not as it would be devastating, but it is potentially what could happen.

Utterly bored to tears of hearing "the virus doesn't care."

If it's not against the law, then it's not for anyone on MN to tell people what to do.

@Wakeupin2022

Wax do you want schools to shut again?

It's not your fault if you live in a high risk area but we all have a part to play in not spreading the virus.

The choices people make, may get us into a really shit situation again where we are all in lockdown with schools shut.

I hope to god not as it would be devastating, but it is potentially what could happen.

I don't live in one of the high risk areas, I said that already. And I can't see schools shutting again at this stage.

That's great and when people with that attitude have seeded the variant all round the country, and vaccinations can't keep up with the pressure from the virus we really will 'all be in it together' eh?

Am Leicester. We Never got out of lockdown last year. Matter of time for us for us to be locked down again I think.