squirtyflower
Well-Known Member
I live in north Rossendale, bordering Burnley.Rossendale - by the way - included in the lockdown today (because of proximity to areas with high ratings) has a pop score far lower than anywhere in GM at 426 and has fewer cases across the entire pandemic than some of the towns in GM have had over the past month. So spare a thought for their residents.
My mate says we have our own weather system, so when the chance for no rain arrives we are out in the garden.
Looked good for Friday so planned to smoke a brisket for 12 hours and have the family, who mostly work from home, round in the garden. Even since lifting restrictions we haven’t been in one another’s houses.
Spent Thursday preparing the meat for an early start Friday.
Then we get a news alert, Rossendale in lockdown, wtf? However it did say not to meet inside, good we can still go ahead.
Up early Friday preparing the smoker to be told by one of the girls we can’t meet in the garden, it’s been banned. WTFityF? We can’t go in the garden even though we could comfortably seat 20 including social distancing?
She says we can go to the pub, we could all go to the cinema or even church, we could all go to the local Indian Restaurant but we can’t meet in the garden.
We could, I suppose, carry all the gear 500m to the local park, sit around the dog shit and empty cans, and we’d be much safer.
This an area that had one (yes ONE) case last week.
If you break it down even further, our specific ward has had no (that’s nil, 0.0, none, zilch) hospitalisations throughout the lockdown for COVID-19 and therefore no deaths. Between us our family know of only one person who has had a positive test, my father in law who got it when he had to go into hospital with pneumonia.
We have all been careful. Shopping as rarely as possible, meeting no one out of our circle and have not been out anywhere except the odd shop since March. Going to work when needed, but mostly working at home.
And yet, because the useless cunts in Blackburn, Burnley, Oldham and Rochdale are unable to change their pattern of being dickheads I am unable to have a beer with my daughters in the garden.
Whatever happened to ‘local’ or ‘precision’ lockdowns?
We have a few defenders of the faith on here so can anyone explain the rationale behind me not being able to meet my daughters in the garden with social distancing in an area with ZERO cases, whilst we can all get on the bus to Burnley and get rat arsed in one of the many filthy, packed, beer stained drug dens masquerading as pubs they have to offer?