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So if they knew about these sweatshops why weren't they closed down by H&S busybodies or the police?

No doubt too busy harassing the general public instead of dealing with the real issue. :rolleyes:

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Sadly Leicester might not be the only place at risk of a local lockdown as there are 36 cities and counties where Covid cases are rising again.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...cal-lockdowns/

https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/30/non-e...ster-12920228/

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No need to wait for test results to determine where to lockdown, just use census data. The map says it all.

Link.

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doesn't take Sherlock to see the common thread there

if certain groups failed to adhere to lockdown then, unchallenged as they were, i don't they expect to change if they lock them down again

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The North-East :erm:

I don't think we should treat all Yorkshiremen/Mancunians the same though. Some of them are very nice people.

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I've noticed that the farther North you go, the better sense of humour people have . . or had, until having one was abolished ;)

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The numbers won't be uniform across a given area. There will be higher rate areas and lower rate areas. Even in Leicester, there are variations across the city.


Area of Leicester that includes the major affected area(North Evington).
Link

As if a mere app is going to help.:rolleyes:

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My sister in law's family are based in Leicester but brother's family are in Lincolnshire so hoping she hasn't been visiting then bringing it back but it's possible my brother was infected much earlier in the epidemic so likely she was and can't directly infect others. Still could "carry" it.
Are we going to see "quarentine areas" formed where areas are "locked in" preventing movement in/out, controlling products etc? Since the problem "seems" to be race related that's going to go down well.

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I don't think you can be a carrier if you've had it can you? The virus won't get a foothold on the body in order to multiply/spread?

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If the virus can 'live' a few days on plastic/metal/glass etc, I'm sure it can live elsewhere without a host - clothing, bags, personal effects :erm:

any ideas?

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Supposedly if you have had the virus then you are not a carrier. This is why Tony Blair wants immunity certificates.

Doesn't mean you cannot carry it on something though. But everything is risk management

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Sure but I don't think that's what a carrier means in this context means you actively pass it on because you have the virus and are producing a lot of it.

The amount of virus that can survive on someone physically is probably pretty low.

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You can still be re-infected, it just won't take hold. For the immune system to tackle it, the virus has to be in the blood stream, ie you've been re-infected.

I wonder if in certain circumstances, it can infect tissue almost directly, without having to travel too far in the blood stream. Nasal and lung tissue is fairly accessible in a direct way. To that extent, it is almost external tissue like skin, without the barrier the skin has of dead skin tissue.

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It's an interesting point to debate . . . sort of like having the virus present but being asymptomatic in a way

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Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech shows positive results. Only a small sample though.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/01/coro...port-says.html