Possible 2nd lockdown for Leicester?

[Dahnsouff]

2 minutes ago, bmt said:

I don't live in Leicester. I understand the frustration is what I was saying.

My parents live in Leicester, they live just off Scraptoft Lane, and although I understand the horrendous double standards on show I would personally prefer a strict lockdown, but that is a personal selfish point of view for my parents, and its not something I have to live with.

 

I do get the frustration too, but expecting the similar in London was always unlikely.

[Leicester_Loyal]

6 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

... or it could be that Leicester's infection rate is 3 times higher than the next highest City. 

Infection rate or positive tets? We've ramped up the testing massively, you don't even need to book in for the mobile units. More figures are needed for a clearer picture.

[Ric Flair]

39 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

We're being made an example of purely to show what could happen to other places if they don't follow social distancing rules etc. This will just make pubs outside of the lockdown area even busier, probably causing an even wider spread of the virus.

This will create the siege mentality Rodgers has desperately been trying to find. We'll stuff Everton tomorrow now.

[worthosoriginals]

29 minutes ago, bmt said:

I'm not in the area but I do actually have some sympathy with those who won't obey this lockdown.

 

When London needed to be locked down to stop the nationwide spread, it wasn't. It was delayed long enough for all middle class Londoners to spread across the whole country, and then the whole country was locked down instead. Why should we be treated differently?

 

Government ministers, advisors, and the mayor of Leicester have all broken lockdown rules. Why should we act any differently?

 

 

Because the grim reaper loves it when the selfish and the dim infect the innocent

[hackneyfox]

29 minutes ago, bmt said:

When London needed to be locked down to stop the nationwide spread, it wasn't. It was delayed long enough for all middle class Londoners to spread across the whole country, and then the whole country was locked down instead. Why should we be treated differently?

 

 

 

 

What a load of rubbish, did you read that somewhere or just make it up?

[hackneyfox]

5 minutes ago, bmt said:

I wasn't saying it was... but it just led to people spreading it by leaving the city (those who could afford to).

That's not how it reads.

[bmt]

14 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

What a load of rubbish, did you read that somewhere or just make it up?

It's what happened. I know loads of people from uni who ****ed off when they were delaying locking London down.

[bmt]

18 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

That's not how it reads.

Well it depends on your reading of 'for'. I think it's clear nobody would think that policy was dictated by posh people getting to their second homes. But people are keen to jump down others throats rather than think about what they probably mean when using ambiguous language. The fact of the matter is that London should have been locked down and wasn't, which led to rich people leaving for other places and causing harm when intranational travel should have been kept at a minimum. Now Leicester is being locked down, and to me that's a massive double standard based purely on political and economic importance. 

 

Also I disagree it reads like that anyway. The 'for' refers to the words before it - 'long enough', not 'delayed'. 

Edited 30 June 2020 by bmt

[lildave3]

30 minutes ago, MonmoreStef said:

This lockdown is only to be reviewed in two weeks.  Could be longer. Going to be hell watching the tv from the weekend watching the rest of the Country enjoying themselves shopping and drinking in beer gardens. 

Just like the ‘hell’ it was for a lot of us when most people were working from home/furloughed enjoying beers in their gardens while others carried on working as normal...

[Wolfox]

59 minutes ago, Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo said:

I wouldn't be surprised if roadblocks or checkpoints are put in place by the weekend, when the lockdown first came about the police were doing loads of random checks for a couple of days here in Loughborough

 

I think it'll be fairly strict to show that localised lockdowns can work

Always by consent…. No way we’ll see roadblocks…

 

 

[bmt]

25 minutes ago, worthosoriginals said:

Because the grim reaper loves it when the selfish and the dim infect the innocent

I'm not saying they're right, I'm saying I have some sympathy. 

[Nalis]

 

1 minute ago, bmt said:

Well it depends on your reading of 'for'. I think it's clear nobody would think that policy was dictated by posh people getting to their second homes. But people are keen to jump down others throats rather than think about what they probably mean when using ambiguous language. The fact of the matter is that London should have been locked down and wasn't, which led to rich people leaving for other places and causing harm when intranational travel should have been kept at a minimum. Now Leicester is being locked down, and to me that's a massive double standard based purely on political and economic importance. 

I kind of agree London should have been locked down in late Feb / early March when projected cases appeared to have been around 200k a day. Hindsight is a great thing though and a localised lockdown is more palatable now that it would have been back viewed then.

[Izzy]

2 hours ago, Wolfox said:

Well my sisters son has been on a boat with RAF for months and has been informed he’s not allowed home on leave now….

We call them nephews around here 

 

Edited 30 June 2020 by Izzy

[Nalis]

Probably been discussed to death but is there any particular reason for the outbreak in Leicester? Doesnt seem to have been any better or worse in the media in the terms of breaking social distancing than London when I've been out and about in the saff?

[MonmoreStef]

6 minutes ago, lildave3 said:

Just like the ‘hell’ it was for a lot of us when most people were working from home/furloughed enjoying beers in their gardens while others carried on working as normal...

I’d have put everyone one the dole pal. Hate the furloughed idea. Lads I know never been better off since been on furlough. Luckily I live in a nice area where I haven’t been close to these mid week parties the furloughed mob have been having. 

[bmt]

Just now, Nalis said:

Probably been discussed to death but is there any particular reason for the outbreak in Leicester? Doesnt seem to have been any better or worse in the media in the terms of breaking social distancing than London when I've been out and about in the saff?

There's a lot of speculation without much evidence. For me most of the factors can be found in a multitude of other cities though, so no doubt there is significant bad luck involved too. And of course the huge increase in testing in Leicester compared to other cities leads to more realistic numbers. In other cities, no doubt, there will be a higher proportion of untested (and therefore unknown) positives.

[chrishlcfc]

So basically from my understanding of the map because I live the right side of an M1 bridge, I’m not in the strict lockdown.

 

That basically sums up how stupid this whole situation is being handled 😂

[Nalis]

4 minutes ago, chrishlcfc said:

So basically from my understanding of the map because I live the right side of an M1 bridge, I’m not in the strict lockdown.

 

That basically sums up how stupid this whole situation is being handled 😂

Party in Chris' house!

[CosbehFox]

21 minutes ago, MonmoreStef said:

I’d have put everyone one the dole pal. Hate the furloughed idea. Lads I know never been better off since been on furlough. Luckily I live in a nice area where I haven’t been close to these mid week parties the furloughed mob have been having. 

Give your head a shake if you think the furloughed mob were having parties all the same. 

[Costock_Fox]

Just now, Cardiff_Fox said:

Give your head a shake if you think the furloughed mob were having parties all the same. 

This is true, they sleep all day as well you know.

[Manini]

Just now, Cardiff_Fox said:

Give your head a shake if you think the furloughed mob were having parties all the same. 

Sitting at home wondering if you’re going to go back to work or if you’re going to be plunged in to the job market when nobody is taking on and there’s thousands of other job seekers, Shit scared of spending any money at all incase the following months pay cheque turned out to be your last. Yeah, it was a ****ing right party I tell you. 

[Livid]

13 minutes ago, chrishlcfc said:

So basically from my understanding of the map because I live the right side of an M1 bridge, I’m not in the strict lockdown.

 

That basically sums up how stupid this whole situation is being handled 😂

Northbound LFE Services = Party Central

Southbound LFE Services = Baah Humbug 

 

 

[Leicester_Loyal]

1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

This will create the siege mentality Rodgers has desperately been trying to find. We'll stuff Everton tomorrow now.

This is the sort of content I love to see on Foxestalk.

[Leicester_Loyal]

39 minutes ago, Nalis said:

Probably been discussed to death but is there any particular reason for the outbreak in Leicester? Doesnt seem to have been any better or worse in the media in the terms of breaking social distancing than London when I've been out and about in the saff?

A number of reasons I can think of:

• Higher BAME population (who usually have multigenerational households)
• BLM protests (although these were quite a few weeks back now)
• People in general just not being responsible
• A lot of factories where people work in close proximity together
• More testing, we've had mobile units where you don't even need to book in
• Eid was at the end of May, probably a lot of families getting together and celebrating, social distancing may have been forgotten about
• People visiting the beach and other destinations because of the hot weather we've had

It only takes a few people to get together and then return home to a home with a large number of people in it for this thing to spread quite easily. I'd say we've just been unlucky as well as some people being irresponsible.

Edited 30 June 2020 by Leicester_Loyal

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