Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Simon Buttle]

Tier 2 for me in Sussex, i did wonder if we might get Tier 1 as cases have been pretty low here over the last month or so but it seems not.

 

[roydo]

Tier 3.

Dont get it.

 

[peteblue]

We’ve gone from Tier 1 to Tier 3 because we’ve been lumped in with Leicester....

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Indeed.

I think the argument for London was that it shouldn't be treated as one big city but as a series of boroughs where some have been better than others in terms of the R rate.

It's clear though that London was handed Tier 2 because the government are desperate for it to start becoming active again. Apparently the West End alone makes up about 4% of GDP.

They were always going to be treated leniently compared to any other city. Still, happy for the people living there and the businesses that it will have helped.

 

[roydo]

We’ve gone from Tier 1 to Tier 3 because we’ve been lumped in with Leicester....

I think we have had a similar thing. I am blaming Weston Super Mare though.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

My theory is that they have lumped people into Tier 3 so that Tier 2 can be dangled as a carrot leading up to the December 16th review - “be good little boys and girls and you can have a meal and a pint over Christmas”. Probably a sensible strategy, as much as I resent it.

 

[COYBL25]

It's tier 2 for LCR - pubs closed; restaurants, and back, sack and crack parlours open.

No, pubs that serve food are open, you can then continue to get a drink after your meal.

 

[roydo]

I think we have had a similar thing. I am blaming Weston Super Mare though.

Sake. Read that North Somerset is in with Bristol and South Gloucestershire, hence Tier 3.

S. Glos is effectively the northern suberbs of Bristol, like that place where that rave was the other week. Thanx bell ends.

 

[COYBL25]

Tier 1 a bit of a farce

Cornwall
Isle of Wight

That's it???

Good news for Liverpool though

It`s the better end of a shitty stick.

Most pubs will remain closed.

The city centre of a night will be much much quieter and the hotels / shops / restaurants will suffer terribly too - all the weekenders who stay over, combining shopping with a weekend away.

 

[mahermi1]

We’ve gone from Tier 1 to Tier 3 because we’ve been lumped in with Leicester....

Blame Matt Hancock, even if you did vote for him Pete !lol

 

[COYBL25]

Sake. Read that North Somerset is in with Bristol and South Gloucestershire, hence Tier 3.

S. Glos is effectively the northern suberbs of Bristol, like that place where that rave was the other week. Thanx bell ends.

It`a allegedly going to be reviewed every 2 weeks, but there`s no way any City and it`s surrounds is going to be in tier 1 anytime soon.

 

[peteblue]

It`a allegedly going to be reviewed every 2 weeks, but there`s no way any City and it`s surrounds is going to be in tier 1 anytime soon.

Correct. The numbers are reducing quickly and I can see some tier 2 areas going into tier 1, but for anyone in tier 3, I reckon Christmas is written off....

 

[roydo]

It`a allegedly going to be reviewed every 2 weeks, but there`s no way any City and it`s surrounds is going to be in tier 1 anytime soon.

No chance. In a way I am relieved the reason my town is Tier 3 is cos we share the same NHS Trust with Bristol and S. Glos, not cos my town is in a bad way or doing daft things, cos we arnt.

But I am a bit like a butcher during the war; rationing didnt really affect him, and whatever Tier we are in, we are not really affected either.

It also meant that when Mrs R was taken ill, she was in the Bristol BRI, (ace), not Weston General, (less ace), so swings and roundabouts I guess.

 

[spectateur]

Like I have bored the arse off this thread by saying SD/masks etc etc have been impeccably observed in my corner of the UK, and Covid hasnt hardly registered. Now, with no noticeable changes in behaviour, we are worse than Liverpool somehow. Schools/Unis being the only difference, but thats nationwide.

It's not only nationwide, it's an inernational phenomenon.
I live in a rural low population area in central France. During the summer and upto mid September we had hardly any C19 cases, some of the lowest figures in the whole country.
Schools colleges and lycées open in Sept. and young people are travelling all over the département, being bussed into the main towns and then back to their villages and hamlets every day.
Result, we now have one of biggest cases/100k in the whole country. cases widespread all over, there's hardly a commune without positive cases.
It seems pretty obvious where the spread is coming from.

 

[COYBL25]

Correct. The numbers are reducing quickly and I can see some tier 2 areas going into tier 1, but for anyone in tier 3, I reckon Christmas is written off....

The big clue, was the extension of the furlough scheme until March.

Expect a lot of places to go under by then.