Posted on 01/01/2021 2:12:58 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Officers were alerted to a number of breaches of coronavirus measures before midnight in the Tier 4 region.
New Year's Eve in Birmingham, and the impact of Tier 4 COVID restrictions is all too apparent.
Occasional fireworks, and a rainbow of lasers, light up the sky, and optimistic taxi drivers line up on ranks in the city centre.
But the bars are closed, the restaurants have their shutters down, and the nightclubs are quiet. Only the takeaways are open, their customers walking home with familiar white plastic bags through the eerily quiet streets.
On any other New Year's Eve, these same streets would be thronging with people. The city centre would entertain tens of thousands of party-goers. The bars and restaurants taking hundreds of thousands of pounds on one of their busiest nights of the year.
And bubbles would only be mentioned when talking about champagne.
But not in 2020.
Tier 4 means "stay at home". No one can meet with any other people indoors, unless they live with them, or are part of a support bubble.
That means any celebrations have to be small, and private.
If anyone breaks the rules, they can be fined, and West Midlands Police, like forces up and down the country, is tasked with enforcing the restrictions.
Inspector Richard Cox is Bronze Commander for the evening, co-ordinating around a hundred officers. Many of them are part of the Operational Support Unit, or OSU, trained in dealing with public order incidents, home searches and football matches.
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Tier 4!
This is it!
The party goers already gathered.
A totally statist police operation.
The UK and Australia have become two of the most oppressive regimes on earth among supposed non- third world countries.
China allowed them to do this
When do the fire trucks arrive to burn the books?
Partiers need to have gun bbqs. Where everyone wears their BBQ gun openly.
I think guerilla actions are coming.
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If I were somehow able to time-jump back to last New Year’s Eve, and warn everyone what was about to happen to our society, everyone would have laughed.
In just one year, the world has gone mad.
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