QuiteIt's the only plan the Government could come up with to get people back on the trains
It's only the Press quoting it as "lockdown", and I agree, it'd just be ignored. More likely would be closures of businesses and schools which would effectively give people nothing to do but stay at home. It's much easier to close businesses and facilities (e.g. parks, pubs doing takeaway that people are gathering on the streets to drink) than to try to control what people actually do.
Expect the pubs in Loughborough, Nuneaton and Market Harborough to be twice and busy on the 4th of July then
That's a downside and would spread any infection more widely - arguably for it to work properly it would have to include travel restrictions, and that's how other countries have done it.
I wonder if this will increase the likelihood that people will decide to travel to Loughborough or even Nottingham or Derby, where things are reopening and cases are lower?
Equally, when the two alternatives are national level lockdowns or allowing the virus to spread, they still seem preferable as an idea. To work, and to mitigate against people travelling to avoid them, you could imagined a two level system whereby the immediate local authority (Eg Leicester) is under the strictest lockdown, and other authorities within a certain distance (eg all East Midlands? or at least Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire, Derby and Nottingham cities perhaps) are under a more middling level (perhaps close to what we have now, pre-July 4th).
Non essential travel is banned again.What's to stop Leicester folk driving or getting a train to Derby or Nottingham, or indeed Market Harborough, to visit a pub or restaurant?
I live in Leicester and it's literally a 10 minute walk from my house to a nearby village, which I assume wont be included (but could well be, a map of what's included would be nice)What's to stop Leicester folk driving or getting a train to Derby or Nottingham, or indeed Market Harborough, to visit a pub or restaurant?
I don't see anything where they can actually enforce this as of yet though.Non essential travel is banned again.
Effectively it's a reset back to March 23rd.
I don't see anything where they can actually enforce this as of yet though.
Apparently all this is to be published.I don't see anything where they can actually enforce this as of yet though.
They can't, but most people will comply, which will be enough to get the transmission rate down.I don't see anything where they can actually enforce this as of yet though.
I don't see anything where they can actually enforce this as of yet though.
Non essential travel is banned again.
Effectively it's a reset back to March 23rd.
They haven't been that for a long time...party of big business these days. It will suit them if there are fewer small businesses to take trade away from the big guns.Nobody with half a braincell will ever start a business again if this kind of thing continues. Economic suicide - brought to you by the 'party of small business'!
They can't, but most people will comply, which will be enough to get the transmission rate down.
They haven't been that for a long time...party of big business these days. It will suit them if there are fewer small businesses to take trade away from the big guns.
Or have the transmissions occurred at factories in the area?Devil's advocate, but the fact there's been an increase in numbers in Leicester and not elsewhere would suggest that compliance with current regulations/guidance has been poor there, and so relying on it being self policing may not be the best approach
Nobody with half a braincell will ever start a business again if this kind of thing continues. Economic suicide - brought to you by the 'party of small business'!
A local business was planning to open in April, obviously that couldn't happen. The restrictions on it opening are lifted now but the would-be business owners have given up.
I don't see how any planning beyond the next few days is possible now with the spectre of local lockdowns and 2 week quarantines.
Nobody with half a braincell will ever start a business again if this kind of thing continues. Economic suicide - brought to you by the 'party of small business'!