To hell with lockdown says 83-year-old

Millions of Britons face this Friday increased restrictions against the pandemic in their regions, and in Wales, they even enter a second general lockdown, in an attempt to curb the second wave of coronavirus.

Accepted by some as necessary in a country with more than 44,000 deaths confirmed by covid-19, the measures do not please everyone.

“I don’t have that many years left to live and I’m not going to spend them locked up at home when the government is doing everything wrong,” an 83-year-old woman told the BBC and the video went viral on social networks.

Since the meltdown in June, each of the four UK nations has taken its own action at the local level. Thus, from 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. GMT), Wales will become the first region to confine its entire population, more than three million inhabitants, until  November 9.

All non-essential shops will close, but primary and some secondary school students will be able to return to classrooms after the holidays in early November.

In England, the Boris Johnson government tries to avoid a new general lockdown, but more than half of its 56 million people live in “high” or “very high” levels of local restrictions.

Manchester entered the highest level on Friday, after days of clashes between the executive and local authorities demanding greater financial compensation for businesses that must close, such as bars and pubs that do not serve food.

In addition, its 2.8 million inhabitants cannot find themselves indoors with family and friends with whom they do not live, and  it also applies  to the 10 million Londoners, among others.

The Prime Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, announced a new alert system on five

levels: at 0 people will be able to gather without restrictions, on 4 will imply confinement.

On Thursday, a senior health official called on Scots to prepare for a “digital Christmas.” Asked by the BBC, Jason Leitch considered that it is “too early to say” how many households will be able to gather for the holidays, but that it would by no means be a “normal Christmas”.

Last week, Northern Ireland closed pubs and restaurants for a month and extended school holidays