National Lockdown to be announced next week?

Now I'm scared. I never was before but somehow, this time, I'm worried. DH and I will lockdown without being told to.

England lockdown

Surely it should either start today or they should have met on Monday with it happening on Wednesday. Its madness, the shops! Good grief.

Too little too late?

At the moment the main protagonists are the young, and schools and universities are not apparently going into lockdown.

It would have made 100% more sense to have had an extended half term lockdown.

What humbug!

“A reminder of what a “senior government source” said when Labour proposed a two or three week circuit break in mid October, as earlier recommended by Sage: “Keir Starmer is a shameless opportunist playing political games in the middle of a global pandemic.”

One of the models showed 4000 deaths a day if the government did nothing. During the spring the highest was 1000 deaths a day.

So depressing. Just wasted 5 days waiting for test results so now a quick visit to bubble family and back to the jigsaws (not)I suppose.

The shopping situation is going to be carnage this weekend
Poor retail staff.

I’m thinking if lockdown might be introduced with the sweetener of a slight easement for a few days over Christmas.

Whether such a sweetener could/should/would happen is another matter.
There’s what is right for dealing with Covid-19 and then what is best for mental and emotional wellbeing and giving us something to look forward to.

Further to my above post, I've just seen an email from my school.
Due to a very large number of pupils and staff isolating or sick, the school will only be open for years 7, 8 & 9 all of next week.
I think that this will be a common occurrence throughout.

I can see secondary schools being only partially open or on a rota.

I thought that it was inevitable, but I didn't expect it so soon.
As soon as 'they' say that they're most certainly not going to do something, you can be pretty much certain that it's only a matter of time.

A month. I think that is optimistic tbh

Well if it’s true, we don’t have too long to wait to find out.

I think these things are leaked so that we have time to process the idea before it's sprung on us.

I think "they" are probably concerned that Joe public may take to the streets in protest at the idea.