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Will you be seeing your family if lockdown is relaxed?

335 replies

CandleFlames · 06/05/2020 19:16

If lockdown is relaxed on Monday, will you see your family from other households again? I had a baby last month and none of my family have met him and I’m in two minds whether to stay isolating or to let them meet him if the rules change.

OP posts:
GabsAlot · 06/05/2020 22:40

one of my dsis lives 60 miles away so not them unless they lift travelling restrictions

Bloodybridget · 06/05/2020 22:41

I'd do whatever is allowed. But my closest family members are two hours drive away so I don't imagine I'll see them for quite a while.

GabsAlot · 06/05/2020 22:43

Scrimp didt sturgeon say today scotland will be extending for 3 weeks whatever the pm says

Leighhalfpennysthigh · 06/05/2020 22:44

Yep. I'm desperate to see my partner so will be on that motorway the second I can and driving the 200 miles to where he is. This has gone on for long enough.

BeingLonely · 06/05/2020 22:45

Not immediately no. My mum works with covid patients and I’m frontline NHS. There will be a spike in cases once lockdown is lifted and I won’t be risking anything of my family or friends lives

SoleBizzz · 06/05/2020 22:46

Of course they will.

Love2Queue · 06/05/2020 22:48

Yes. Both parents live separately and both furloughed
Pil both retired and mil goes shopping that's it.

DH is furloughed and I'm the only one been shopping ad I prefer to.
I have a 3m old they haven't seen since mothers day and a 2yr old who is crying daily at the door to see them. They all live local.. 2 walking distance so yes.. Withiut a doubt

hammeringinmyhead · 06/05/2020 22:49

It depends on how far we're allowed to travel. In laws and my parents are desperate to see DS but all live a 3hr drive away.

I would absolutely love to meet local mum friends for a walk though!

Saladmakesmesad · 06/05/2020 22:57

No - my parents are in Scotland and one of them is shielding. Tbh even if they lived nearby I wouldn't be rushing to see them, for all of our safety. The government saying something is safe to do probably means the opposite is true - look at their track record!

1forsorrow · 06/05/2020 23:09

I would but I don't think I'd be allowed to do the journeys as they live too far away. I'd really love to though.

Lynda07 · 06/05/2020 23:10

No, it's too soon in my opinion.

Cantata · 06/05/2020 23:15

I have been seeing people anyway because my assessment of risk overall (including that to my children, which would be immense if I stuck to the Mumsnet version of The Rules) is that I am not likely to catch or transmit anything. So yes, I would see your family if I were you, OP.

UnderCaffeinated · 06/05/2020 23:15

I think I would go see my parents. We're both furloughed and my parents are retired so I would feel okay seeing them. I've missed them very much and we would see each other twice a week at least usually so this has been very hard on everyone. I wouldn't be seeing anyone outside of them until things are a bit better.

Cantata · 06/05/2020 23:16

PS Sturgeon needs to realise that she is irrelevant.

TheGinGenie · 06/05/2020 23:21

Yes, I will see my parents and my boyfriend as soon as I'm allowed to. I live alone and it's been difficult to have no human contact at all. None of us are in high risk categories, we have been following the rules and none of us are particularly risk averse in normal life anyway

lljkk · 06/05/2020 23:27

I would but mine live abroad And would probably be too scared. I imagine dh will see his mum ASAP

Incontinencesucks · 06/05/2020 23:27

No as most are in high risk group. Not for couple of weeks anyway as it looks like we have the joy of chicken pox...

Incontinencesucks · 06/05/2020 23:28

Not the rest for couple of weeks that should be.

Toomuchspinach · 06/05/2020 23:30

Yes absolutely. We should have never gone in to a full lockdown. Only shielded people needed to stay in.

ClientQ · 06/05/2020 23:34

No, shielding alone Sad

My dad wants to come over to sort an electrical issue so he may do that at some point while I stand in the garden and he is inside fixing it. He's not been in contact with anyone so v low risk compared to paying someone to do it I guess

Daisylily656 · 06/05/2020 23:37

If lockdown is relaxed, we won't be visiting family straight away or going out straight away. We think it's too soon and DD2 and DP are in the sheilding group.

kittensarecute · 06/05/2020 23:47

Yes I hope to see my dad as soon as I'm able.

Magicra84 · 07/05/2020 00:02

I won't. My only family really is my mum and she's diabetic so I'm assuming she's at some level of risk plus she's overweight and with it being on the news yesterday about the risks to those overweight I think I'll leave it for a bit longer.

mouldygrapes · 07/05/2020 00:16

No, I won’t be. The rate of new infections per day is 5 times higher than when we went into lockdown. If it wasn’t safe then, why on earth would it be now?
(And yes I know we’re testing more people now but since we haven’t been doing that since the beginning we’re assuming infection rates are falling without the data to back that up).

Toomuchspinach · 07/05/2020 00:24

Infection rates don’t mean anything as we were not testing. The death rate is falling and that’s all that matters.

I’d be really interested to know where all the bloody flu deaths are this year as there seems to be none Hmm

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