Glaswegians resigned to trade-off between Covid restrictions now and freer Christmas
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Waiting in the snaking queue outside Primark on Argyle Street, Lisa McNally has one purchase in mind: jammies. “Everything else I’ll get online. I don’t get paid until after lockdown starts.”
Glasgow city centre is busier than she’d expected for a weekday morning. “People are panicking,” her friend Connie Goodman suggests. Neither is convinced that the “short and sharp” imposition of near-lockdown restrictions across the west of Scotland, which come into force from 6pm on Friday, will be over after the promised three weeks. “They said that about the first lockdown.”
