West Midlands New Rules Covid 19

Justiceforme

Many news channels and news papers have reported that people from the West Midlands will no longer be able to mix with any family.  This is not correct, they can mix with a maximum of 6 people in 1 bubble  including children.  if anyone knows better please post.

poppy12345

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/restrictions-on-household-mixing-in-birmingham-sandwell-and-solihull See link.

The following locations will be now be escalated to areas of national intervention. From Tuesday, residents must not socialise with people outside of their own households, unless they’re in your support bubble. This does not apply to places of work, schools or childcare.

• Birmingham
• Sandwell
• Solihull

RyanHello

and it's totally unenforceable ! I say live your life. Do not let imbeciles in the gov tell you how to live your life!

ToxicWomble

RyanHello said:

and it's totally unenforceable ! I say live your life. Do not let imbeciles in the gov tell you how to live your life!

I like the sentiment - BUT if we aren’t careful we will be in another national hard lockdown so please don’t complain when/if it happens

RyanHello

Mr Chris Whitty said the peak was in April.. so why now are we putting more restrictions in. It's farcical. 
The cases are going up because we're testing more... cases also do not mean a positive infection either. The tests pick up dead cells.

If you look at the graph, the curve is flattened and has been for almost two months.

sweetsand

poppy12345 said:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/restrictions-on-household-mixing-in-birmingham-sandwell-and-solihull See link.

The following locations will be now be escalated to areas of national intervention. From Tuesday, residents must not socialise with people outside of their own households, unless they’re in your support bubble. This does not apply to places of work, schools or childcare.

• Birmingham
• Sandwell
• Solihull

I'm very confused. Sandwell is a part of Brum is it not? 
The support bubble can that be more than 6 people?

adamp87

RyanHello said:

Mr Chris Whitty said the peak was in April.. so why now are we putting more restrictions in. It's farcical. 
The cases are going up because we're testing more... cases also do not mean a positive infection either. The tests pick up dead cells.

If you look at the graph, the curve is flattened and has been for almost two months.

We are almost a month later & that’s just hospital admissions which are slowly rising. The issue is the spread of cases which is now over 3’000 a day. It wasn’t that in August

JamoLew

The majority of positive cases are in the 20-30 age group - who think they are immune/immortal (their parents/grandparents won't be though)
The big concern is if it takes hold in the elderly/vulnerable demographic again - especially with seasonal flu season heading this way

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-hospital-activity/
will be interesting to compare with the next update at the start of Oct

Thrugelmir

RyanHello said:

Mr Chris Whitty said the peak was in April.. so why now are we putting more restrictions in. It's farcical. 
The cases are going up because we're testing more... cases also do not mean a positive infection either. The tests pick up dead cells.

If you look at the graph, the curve is flattened and has been for almost two months.

What's your expertise in the field?  

43722

Sandwell is not part of Birmingham.

poppy12345

sweetsand said:

poppy12345 said:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/restrictions-on-household-mixing-in-birmingham-sandwell-and-solihull See link.

The following locations will be now be escalated to areas of national intervention. From Tuesday, residents must not socialise with people outside of their own households, unless they’re in your support bubble. This does not apply to places of work, schools or childcare.

• Birmingham
• Sandwell
• Solihull

The support bubble can that be more than 6 people?

Yes they can be. It's single adults living alone or single parents with children under 18, can form a support bubble with another household. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52637354