Today is the first day of the third national lockdown and the government has set it down in law for it to be enforced until March 31^st. Although they say that this lockdown will not go on that long and we will probably ease the restriction sometime in early to mid-February. I am not so sure.

It is just the same as tier 4 restrictions but with the added element of the schools closing.

The Greenwich council was ahead of the game here as just a few weeks ago they tried to close all the schools in the borough of Greenwich for a period as they could see that the new variant of the virus was spreading like wildfire via the schools. Unfortunately, they caved in after the education secretary Gavin Williamson threatened them with legal action.

It is all well Boris pontificating about how safe the kids are at school, and about that he may be right, but what about the poor teachers and the parents and grandparents who come in to contact with their asymptomatic contaminated kids.

The London Borough of Lewisham has highlighted this with two teachers dying of the virus within the last few days, and it has been estimated that school staff are six times more likely to catch the virus than the rest of the ordinary population.

Last month I knew of a few people that I know who had tested positive, but this month that figure has increased dramatically and with the latest estimate that 1 in 30 Londoners are testing positive with the virus I am not surprised.