Think you can sit outside if you are feeling quite hardy - just not inside 2 meters apart because that would be dangerous apparently but you can site next to strangers 2 meters apart
We'd all be a lot better off if the government had put in place over the past seven months a decent testing programme for everyone. By now everyone in the UK should be guaranteed a test at least one a month. Mass testing is the simplest way back to normality.
I noticed this when Bradford went into local lockdown the first time, all the Labour controlled areas were locked down and the Conservative ones weren’t. Out of all the areas I checked, it matched up perfectly. I can’t decide whether it’s that they don’t want to piss off their Tory voters/mates or if they are wanting to control the Labour areas. I’d like to think it’s the first but I know what I’d be thinking if it was Trump and Republican/Democrat areas.
I think the bigger issue is that the increased prevalence of coronavirus in socially deprived areas illuminates social inequalities that exist across the UK
Liverpool COVID rates running amok. Tory solution is let’s wait a couple of days then have a lockdown. Brilliant.
Got a mate whose address is officially a Tier 1, but if he goes out his back door to the road at end of his back garden he is in Tier 2.
On average 16 people per day commit suicide in England & Wales, until all the inquest verdicts are returned it won't be possible to say for certain, but early indications are that the suicide rate has actually fallen during the pandemic.
This is all pretty puzzling for me. I live in Dodworth, and every Sunday (and most other days for that matter), we have to put up with morons tearing through the village, in souped up-exhaust cars and motorbikes, apparently attempting to break the world land-speed record. With those in authority utterly unable to stop them. So, it seems to me that anyone believing that the restrictions outlined today have any chance of a) being observed by anything other than a minority amongst certain age groups b) being effectively enforced, or c) having a positive effect, are living in some parallel universe.
I live in an area which will be tier 2 from Wed. For the last month, we have already been under local restrictions, which will be the same restrictions as those for tier 2 -so no change. Over the last month, our infection rate has quadrupled - so how will being iin tier 2 stop it?