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Originally Posted by Carth
Or they could use the 'statistics' to see where the biggest rises in infections are, and then put those places in lock down and leave the rest of us alone
Merry Christmas London, Manchester, Birmingham etc etc  |
That didn't work last year when they put London in tier 4 and everyone just ended up on the trains going all over the country instead.
Local lockdowns really only make sense if they are actual lockdowns and people need a reasonable excuse to leave the area, and that such is patrolled.
Realistically they would probably have to seal off the whole of London and prevent anyone going in and out if they wanted to do that, save for essential deliveries, people going to and from work who couldn't work from home, and allowing people to re-enter the area to go home if they arrived after it was locked down. That this is difficult to do here, is presumably why it won't be.
Starting to think the figures of Omicron published by UKHSA are either severely lagged or just a massive underestimate, surely now in the areas where it's dominant there is now minimal or no Delta, if the evidence Omicron is less severe is true, this is presumably good news.