United Kingdom V: Son of a beach

[Cassius_Smoke]

This whole thing with Leicester just feels weird to me. You can't tell me that the government actually gives a **** about the wellbeing of the people in Leicester.
Its like they feel they need to set an example to juxtapose rolling back the lockdown so rapidly.

[cutmymilk]

The lockdown area needs to be a lot wider to dissuade people from just popping down the road. Looks like people in the centre could be somewhere in 20 minutes, but I don't live there so can't say for sure.

[Cassius_Smoke]

What's Leicesters closest castle? They're about to get a lot of eye tests.

[MartyG]

What's Leicesters closest castle? They're about to get a lot of eye tests.

That would be Belvoir Castle (pronounced Beaver) or possibly Rockingham Castle (actually yes, Rockingham is closer, I thought Belvoir was nearer to the Leicester borders but clearly not looking at Google Maps).

[Golgo]

Kirby Muxloe Castle is nearer. Not much of a castle, tbh, but only a quarter mile from the pestilential boundary and conveniently near The Royal Oak for any weary traveler wishing to rest their eyes: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ki...6!4d-1.2270769

[wheelaa]

So, it's being widely reported another 36 areas may be at risk of local lockdown due to rising Covid-19 cases.

The balancing act between the lives lost due to C19 / lives lost due to lockdown measures / lives lost due to economic woes...assuming they are even considerations in any strategy...so depressing.

The areas reported (multiple sources)

1. Barking and Dagenham
2. Brent
3. Derbyshire
4. Doncaster
5. Ealing
6. Enfield
7. Gateshead
8. Gloucestershire
9. Hammersmith & Fulham
10. Haringey
11. Harrow
12. Havering
13. Hounslow
14. Isle of Wight
15. Kensington & Chelsea
16. Leicester
17. Medway
18. Milton Keynes
19. Plymouth
20. Portsmouth
21. Redbridge
22. Redcar & Cloveland
23. Richmond upon Thames
24. Sandwell
25. Slough
26. Suffolk
27. Sunderland
28. Tower Hamlets
29. Wakefield
30. Walsall
31. Wandsworth
32. Westminster
33. Wigan
34. Wiltshire
35. Windsor & Maidenhead
36. York

Stay safe peeps!

Edit - I should add that this list is just one of places where cases are rising, and is an oft-repeated list in various new outlets at present. I can find nothing official, so far, about any future lockdowns, and there are other areas where cases are increasing.

[fuse]

Top five, baby! Someone shared the same news with me last night but on further probing the list came from the Sun, and I failed to find anywhere else backing it up. Now I would never dare to accuse a man of such a heinous crime, but where did you get yours from?

[Dogg Thang]

The balancing act between the lives lost due to C19 / lives lost due to lockdown measures / lives lost due to economic woes.

Lives lost due to lockdown measures? Where? Due to economic woes? Where?

This narrative is entirely false equivalency. Covid is an infectious disease that can kill people and, if it doesn't kill them, it can leave them damaged. It can spread exponentially through a population. Now we know we can contain it and that's a choice. And if you get it, there is a national health service set up to make sure you're treated because that's how a country should work - it looks after its people. Lockdown deaths? This is not infectious. Not exponential and I'm not even convinced it's real (tweets going around claiming suicides jumped to 200% turned out to be entirely false). Lives lost to economic woes? Again, not seeing that yet. Lockdown is certainly unpleasant. And there are people who need assistance to even be able to live properly doing it. Economic woes could grow to be an absolutely massive problem... except, like when you get covid, both of these things should result in aid by the government, just as you get with the NHS. Any suffering from these things is preventable and, right now, nothing like covid. Putting these things in the same sentence is false equivalency. Tens of thousands of people have died in the UK during the lockdown (so without it would have been far worse). The same can't be said for 'deaths due to lockdown' during that same period.

Now if you wanted to frame it as a balancing act between lives lost due to covid and keeping people wealthy, I'd be entirely with you. As far as I can see, that's what's happening.

[wheelaa]

Alphabetical Fuse! Think I first saw this via The Telegraph a couple of days back and it seems to have gathered traction in most places. I assume there is a gov stat site with regional data somewhere but being honest I can't see anywhere official where I am able to drill so far down into the figures.

I hope(d) my caveat is(was) enough, but yeah, pinch of salt.

Stay safe regardless!

[Mayhem]

Sad yet hilarious at the same time...

https://twitter.com/archer_rs/status/1277505330885386240

[Dogg Thang]

I have my doubts about whether any of that happened.

[endo]

Yeah, I get a strong whiff of Jimmy Hill reading that. He’s mates with the mayor and some random couple’s son’s boss is ringing him up and laughing about the son. Who he’s never met. Of course.

[Zaki]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbwnynmX0AEKFy4?format=jpg&name=medium

[Zaki]

I have my doubts about whether any of that happened.

I believe every word of it.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/01/data-reveals-coronavirus-hotspots-in-bradford-barnsley-and-rochdale

Bradford, Barnsley and Rochdale emerge as new COVID hotspots

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/jul/01/uk-coronavirus-live-local-lockdowns-doctors-pmqs-covid-19-latest-updates

As the UK death rate rises for the second day in a row to 176