Current Covid map. A mixed picture locally as all London heads, in all probability, towards tier 3.
Dark blue is well above national average, green is below. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map
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Strange to have such disparity so close, I wonder why that is?
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To be fair to the data, Perry Vale is at 95.2. If it were 100 or more, it would be blue like Upper Sydenham which is at 104.9 or Lower Sydenham at 107.2.
So perhaps itās a bit of a data visualisation error and they should have used a more boring monochrome scale instead?
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Fairlawn Primary already closed last Friday. 15 staff tested positive.
Closer to home, our little one wonāt go to nursery anymore this year after several cases with staff were confirmed this week, for the first time since the start of the outbreak.
It certainly looks and feels like the tide is coming in hard and fast in our area. Stay safe everyone!
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Article says it closed for one day and is now open.
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The borough of Greenwich is closing all its schools next week:
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Nipped into Sainsburyās this afternoon and was horrified by how many werenāt wearing masks. The three ladies taking their time maskless at the bread bins werenāt exempt - as they were wearing them - just unfortunately around their chins. Iād say about 20% not wearing - more than Iāve seen before and of all ages, sexes, races. I havenāt been out much but if thatās widespread then no wonder the infections are climbing.
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Thatās it in a nutshell.
Well itās been confirmed that we are moving to tier 3:
Greenwich schools now, only now being Monday evening, being threatened with legal action by the schools minister if they follow the council request. 
Which sainsburys? The last time I was at the one at bell green (about 10 days ago) there was very high mask compliance. I do feel as though either people are so fed up they canāt be bothered any more or people think theyāve already had the vaccine.
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London Road one. Usually when Iāve been in, itās been ok. But this time it felt busier inside too - and no one at the door organising in/out. Very few using the sanitiser on the way in either. 
Thanks, thatās useful to know. Iāve not been up to that one recently. The bell green one was ok when I was last there, with quite high mask wearing compliance. Although there was no one there controlling the flow of customers in. And people werenāt always leaving 2 m when queuing.
Just for context - over here in Portugal almost everyone wears a mask even when just on the street. You might see the odd one in Lisbon but here it is 99.9% compliance and you even see people driving wearing them. Life is pretty much normal - just very quiet. You canāt be out after 11pm and there is a weekend curfew of 1pm, but the cafes, shops and restaurants are all open. The exception is bars which are allowed to open but most have just shut completely.
I have been speaking to my old team at work in the school. The entire team is isolating, 4 have tested positive and two are really quite ill. At least two of their spouses has it now and one mate has to isolate in his room for fear of giving it to his frail relatives. The rest are forced to work from home while the school conducts long interviews to track all the people they came into contact with. Two other similar schools in the locality have shut the doors and gone online after multiple outbreaks among pupils and staffā¦
I have no idea if masks or squashing thousands of people into schools is driving the uptick in numbers but I am glad I got out of work and out of the countryā¦
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Glad you left the country Nick, I find that very hard to believe. Even last week on the telly there was a politician saying that the UK with its vaccine is a much better country than all the others put together. I think in reality you are just jealous that we have an aggressive beggar and you donāt !
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compliance of the wearing of masks in London has deteriorated dramatically since our first Lockdown.
I work In a busy store in the west end and Iād say at least 35% of our customers are not bothering or wearing them round their chins-we simply do not have enough security staff to approach each and every one of them and their job is really to catch shoplifters and pickpockets not tell people to wear their masks in the store-We have staff at the entrance ensuring people wear masks but the moment they get in the door they remove it.
Iād say its mainly the under 40ās paying no heed and behaving as if the pandemic doesnāt exist-and totally ignoring social distancing too.
Its unsurprising that we are in this mess-most people have been ignoring the rules and going to other peoples houses socialising with their mates etc etc.
The thing I dont actually understand is why yet again restaurants and theatres have been closed?
Every place Iāve eaten in has taken the necessary precautions to make their premises as covid safe as possible spacing tables, showing test and trace, providing sanitisers and staff wearing masks or visors.
Theatres likewise have removed seating staggered entry etc and yet at 24 hours notice are plunged into darkness again.
Galleries and museums have been shut-and yet Iāve rarely been to a museum or gallery as packed as a west end store at this time of year, and considering each room in a gallery has a member of staff to oversee it surely social distancing and mask wearing would be stringently enforced?
BUTā¦you can go to a sauna, or a gym,school or play a group sport outdoors-fine but in a group sport such as rugby or football players often need to come in very close contact with each other.
It all seems a bit messed up and confused.
Nightclubs and bars I understand but restaurants theatres galleries and museums I dont.
And as regards the rulesā¦there is nobody to enforce them which in effect negates them.
Lets be honest-you may as well have a get together with 10 of your mates round your flat because nothings going to happen.
They advertise on the underground hefty fines for not wearing a mask but I use 4 trains a day 5 days a week and have never ever seen a fine being handed out or anyone being stopped entering a station for not wearing a mask.
apologies for the rant but I see lives being lost, livelihoods being lost and rules being made but rules mean nada without them being enforced.
80.000 dead so far.
I dispair
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Totally understand your rant and sorry to hear that you are being put at risk by inconsiderate people. I hope you stay safe at work.
Itās so frustrating. I am lucky enough to work at home and for the most part, have barely left the house - shopping online or at open-air venues. Iām part of the ONS survey so have had a recent negative test so Iām fairly sure Iām low risk to drive to Scotland to see my Mum (otherwise alone) for Christmas. But with them talking about changing the rules to 3 days etc, thatās now looking unlikely. Meanwhile, others go out, meet multiple groups of 6 while bending the meal rules and going into central London to gawp at the lights, and despite the bigger ācircleā of contacts will be able to go and see nearby family groups (probably doing 3 per day).
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I think here there is a lot of self policing and social pressure to mask up and keep a distance. Some have suggested that the history of the country and the fact that it was until fairly recently very authoritarian has a bearing on this - I would tend to agreeā¦ Still I went out for a beer and a curry last night!!
Meanwhile one of my ex work colleagues remains very ill but the rest are recovering. I am actually helping out a bit here and there as it is re-sit results day today!
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I think one of the reasons why some of the Asian and middle eastern countries have very few cases of COViD is that they have a very different attitude to authority. I have a client in UAE and we were chatting on the zoom a few weeks back. He said to me āover here if the Emir says you stay indoors then people do as they are told, in England if the government tells people to stay in, then they all go down the pubā
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Not trying to be āedgyā or Devilās advocate here but you canāt really blame people for their non-compliance on account of reading about so many leading figures in the media and government seemingly holding their own advice in contempt by openly ognoring the lockdown rules to suit their own needs. Iāve been inducted onto three building sites during the lockdown where the developers went as far out of their way as possible to emphasise the importance of social distancing, etc., but as soon as we got out on site to work it all went out the window. Even if you raised concerns we were told to like it or lump it.
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