Carlos Fandango
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Just heard this on BBC 5live
Source- The Times
Source- The Times
National Lockdown from Wednesday
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BaronSmoggie
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In Belgium? Nothing on the BBC website about it for the UK.
Carlos Fandango
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They were quoting The Times
Michael_Vronsky
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Talking about a national lockdown but keeping open schools and universities?!
starplayer
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It would be a sensible thing to do from a healthcare capacity point of view, though economically would be a disaster. We still have 4 months of winter to go and ITU beds are already getting congested with people suffering from Covid. My fear is that the cat is already out of the bag and we are in for a really bad winter, unless a vaccine proves effective soon.
Centralscrutinizer
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So the usual brilliant leadership with the lockdown pre announced via a leak to the press then we'll have an announcement of a press conference to tell us what we already know 
McBrid
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It does seem to be picking up pace. They love releasing it to the press first everytime they announce something
McBrid
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So the usual brilliant leadership with the lockdown pre announced via a leak to the press then we'll have an announcement of a press conference to tell us what we already know
Spot on
Michael_Vronsky
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So if it's 'everything' apart from essentials and schools and unis, then our football is cancelled for the month, right?!
McBrid
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Would look that way.
MolteniArcore
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Furlough again for a month?
uncle_rico
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4 week lockdown with everything closing except essential shops, schools, nurseries and universities.
The problem is people mixing in eachother’s homes, and regardless of any mini lockdown, circuit breaker or whatever else they want to call it, the selfish amongst us will continue to do as they please, as they have done since March.
No doubt taxis will still be able to operate without scrutiny and the issue will remain, and then once the restrictions are lifted it will gradually get worse again.
The problem is people mixing in eachother’s homes, and regardless of any mini lockdown, circuit breaker or whatever else they want to call it, the selfish amongst us will continue to do as they please, as they have done since March.
No doubt taxis will still be able to operate without scrutiny and the issue will remain, and then once the restrictions are lifted it will gradually get worse again.
Pog
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The problem is colleges and universities, but this useless government don’t have the political appetite to close them.
Pog
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Still continuing in France, expect the same here.