Re: Where's our Tier 1?
Posted: February 18th, 2021, 4:54 pm
Lots of white near me.
I can't see any yellow though, does it exist?
I can't see any yellow though, does it exist?
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Exists for Shetland.dealtn wrote:Lots of white near me.
I can't see any yellow though, does it exist?
So, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset?UncleEbenezer wrote:As big swathes of the country (including now the whole Four Counties of Southwest England) join us in green, we've moved as a county to light green, with a few areas of Wales and Scotland. And that despite a big outbreak in a small area of central Exeter disproportionately pushing the county's numbers up.
Where's our Tier 1 status?
The US has a similar system of colour codes:modellingman wrote:As an aside, here in the Canary Islands, the government of the autonomous community (Spain is divided into 17 of these) put in place a traffic light system of tiers (green, yellow, red) before Christmas. Each of the 7 islands was placed into a tier according to 7 and 14 day rates of infection and levels of hospital capacity taken up by Covid-19 cases. Different social restrictions such as restaurant and bar opening hours and curfew hours were applied to each colour.
Prior to Christmas Tenerife was the worst affected island and the only one on red. After Christmas, cases in Lanzarote gave a perfect illustration of exponential growth and peaked at several times the previous peak in Tenerife. This necessitated even more social restrictions and a new traffic light colour. The colour chosen? Brown. We are still paddling our way out of the creek.
Three weeks on and our neighbouring regions - together an area bigger than many whole counties and stretching coast to coast - are all now yellow.UncleEbenezer wrote:As of today, we (West Devon) show bright yellow on the map[1]. The first mainland area to do so. And of course all our seven local areas are white on the MSOA map.
Where's our Tier 1?
[1] Not that we'll necessarily keep it: at this level, a single new case matters.
May 17th, honey. Same as the rest of us. You don't get a pass for being yokels and bumpkins.UncleEbenezer wrote:Three weeks on and our neighbouring regions - together an area bigger than many whole counties and stretching coast to coast - are all now yellow. Where's our Tier 1?UncleEbenezer wrote:As of today, we (West Devon) show bright yellow on the map[1]. The first mainland area to do so. And of course all our seven local areas are white on the MSOA map.
Where's our Tier 1?
[1] Not that we'll necessarily keep it: at this level, a single new case matters.
Except Leicester who have had full lockdown since March 23rd last year. Not really 'North', though admittedly not London either.zico wrote: 2. Lockdown lifted nationally when London was OK, but North cases still too high, leading inevitably to -
Yeah, you in the North got super-spreaders. Barnard Castle, anyone?zico wrote:Up here in the North, we've had the following.
1. Lockdown when London & South-East were mainly affected.
2. Lockdown lifted nationally when London was OK, but North cases still too high, leading inevitably to -
3. Stricter tiers in the North because of the higher rates, then new variant discovered in Kent leading (not obviously inevitably) to -
4. Policy of "Hey chill out, it's nearly Xmas" to give the Kent variant a proper chance to spread quickly across the whole country.
5. And now, as night follows day, cases are down a lot in the South (but less so in the North), so it's time to relax lockdown all over the country, to be followed by .......ooh, at a wild guess, new lockdowns applying only to the North?
Are you cursed for what you did to Richard of York?melonfool wrote:Except Leicester who have had full lockdown since March 23rd last year. Not really 'North', though admittedly not London either.zico wrote: 2. Lockdown lifted nationally when London was OK, but North cases still too high, leading inevitably to -
Mel
Leicester is a funny place. Go 30 miles north to Nottingham and Derby and the northern accent immediately hits you. But with Leicester it is not so much an accent as a really sloppy diction, all dropped "h"s, and the use of words like "mardy", "frit" and "nesh".melonfool wrote:Except Leicester who have had full lockdown since March 23rd last year. Not really 'North', though admittedly not London either.zico wrote:Lockdown lifted nationally when London was OK, but North cases still too high, leading inevitably to -
No idea, I don't live in Leicester.UncleEbenezer wrote:Are you cursed for what you did to Richard of York?melonfool wrote: Except Leicester who have had full lockdown since March 23rd last year. Not really 'North', though admittedly not London either.
Mel
Yes, Leicester has suffered worse than anywhere for lockdowns. There are many definitions of "North", but I think the dividing line between the Severn and the Wash is a fair division of the country - at least into "South and important" and "Not South, not important", which is how government policy generally seems to work.melonfool wrote:Except Leicester who have had full lockdown since March 23rd last year. Not really 'North', though admittedly not London either.zico wrote: 2. Lockdown lifted nationally when London was OK, but North cases still too high, leading inevitably to -
Mel
"Midlands" is way too messy a concept. Especially Cheshire, which has no business being anywhere near La-La Land, Moss Side and Yorkshire, so should be towed to fit in somewhere adjoining the Chilterns. The Midlands also has the most ignored second city of any country in the world.AleisterCrowley wrote:Why does the Midlands always get left out? We are not South. We are not North.
When travelling by train the Midlands starts at Banbury, and ends at Stoke.
Well, it's neither here nor there is it?AleisterCrowley wrote:Why does the Midlands always get left out? We are not South. We are not North.
When travelling by train the Midlands starts at Banbury, and ends at Stoke.