The streets were teeming with press, cameras and reporters covering the news of non-essential shops closing again, schools preparing to close, bars and restaurants put on ice, and non-essential travel being prohibited. It really does feel like we were yesterday’s news and are today’s chip paper.
But there’s aspects to this story that has not received sufficient focus. I have a warning to the school and early years community locally and across the country: how long will this last, who is next and why?
Living and working in Leicester city centre we find ourselves in a new social experiment. It feels like we are under not house but city-arrest. We were all surprised to learn of an increased infection rate from Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, in a daily briefing about two weeks ago. Since then we were the focus of public, political and press speculation, and now the subject of direct action.
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