Would you go to a bbq this weekend?

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Friends have invited us over. We have early teen children who know all about 2 metre rule.
Friends have a large garden and a outdoor loo so no need to go into their house at all.

Also live in a rural position with no close neighbours.

Yes I absolutely would.

I’m in a vulnerable group due to asthma, so No.

Yes

I wouldn’t but I don’t see why I can see my boss in an office but not anyone else in a garden!

Going to work and seeing your boss is presumably important for you to be able to do your job (otherwise you’d be working from home wouldn’t you?). Doing your job enables you to earn money to keep alive and essential stuff like that.

Oh maybe I will get in my car and drive 150 miles to see my elderly parents, who I have not seen since January, because standing in their garden is the same as....

On the other hand maybe I won't as it's ILLEGAL!

People flouting the rules are really starting to piss me off. FFS 😡😡😡😡😡

@User7764217 because some would argue that doing a job and getting paid is more essential than having a piss up at your friends house.

Serious question - why do the people saying yes think it's ok to go against the rules? If you get sick you will be expecting care even though you have deliberately gone against guidance. It's so incredibly selfish.

Yes

No

Absolutely not.

No because the more people keep gradually bending the rules in little ways like this, then it spirals to bigger things once people become accustomed to it. Just no! Save people getting together in close proximity for people who have to for urgent work purposes, not trivial things like bbq’s

Not tomorrow afternoon, it's going to be bloody windy: 40mph + round here.

Not this weekend but it's looking likely that in Scotland we can next weekend go meet a another household in their garden or anywhere outside.

Wow can't quite believe how many people are saying yes. You're actually going to be putting things in your mouth that someone else (not from your household) has prepared. It makes no sense. It's not just bending the rules it's out right breaking them. You're not allowed to meet in homes/gardens and when you do meet someone it has to be one on one

Absolutely not.

For those of you who are intending on ignoring the rules completely, you are prolonging this for everyone. For the sake of a little longer, it could set us back to the start and complete (and more strict) lockdown.

Why oh why?

Yes I would.

No. I'm following government advice. And I'm trying to be a role model to my daughter that rules are to be followed and that if we bend them once, then we're likely to bend them again, and just a little bit more next time and then again 'because, no harm done'.

What @roaarsome said.

I would also really like at least some of my children to get back to school at some point this term and this constant rule bending is jeopardising this. I am sure it will be fine in the majority of cases, but the problem is the very few where it isn't- the more people do it, the larger the number of the 'very few' cases becomes.

For those saying the risk is minute?

I 100% agree with you the risk is tiny BUT if only one of the attendees has it (and you could never know before hand) the risks are then quite large. There was reports of a family party in America where 6 members of the same family contracted it from one person and 2 died.

@fessmess do you really think it is ILLEGAL to drive 150 miles to visit and check on your elderly parents? I would consider that pretty okay at this stage of lockdown.

3 members of this Glasgow family died after attending a 40th birthday celebration.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/heartbreak-scots-family-three-grandparents-22010295

You're actually going to be putting things in your mouth that someone else (not from your household) has prepared

i already said I wouldn’t go but... How is this any different to a takeaway? Or people dropping meals at vulnerable people’s houses?

No

No

No