To have a socially distanced meet up with a friend?

[Ilovecats23]

I’m so lonely.

DH is working 6 days a week and is exhausted and napping on his days off, and when he’s not napping we’re getting household chores etc done
DC are both under 2 so can’t talk.

I really need to see someone, I’m so tearful and sad and just lonely. I’m also 26 weeks pregnant so hormones are probably making the loneliness worse.

Would it be awful of me to see a friend? We could sit 2m apart and just chat, I just need some form of company.

I’ve seen people park next to each other and have a socially distanced chat with their car doors open

It’s meaning if you happen to bump into someone you know then another person you know comes along you shouldn’t all be standing around chatting (as this could easily happen without intention of course they know we are not going to ignore someone we know when we see them)

It does not mean two people can meet. It’s very clear you can not meet friends and family.

Do you get on with your neighbours? I chat to mine most days when it's nice weather. We stay over 2m apart and in our own yards.

@Mustbetimeforachange

The guidelines also state
Unless you are with members of your household, you must not gather in groups of more than two people in public spaces like parks.

I was just going to post this myself. It's amazing how many members of MN clearly havent read the rules properly.

Of course it’s fine

Yes we have read the guidelines

To gather means coming together to meet is to make an arrangement to do so

It’s only taken this way by people who want it to. That’s a choice but it certainly does not mean you can arrange to meet up (even if just two people)

You are not that stupid to not understand that

I haven't op and I'm just as lonely as you - fiancé is frontline medical so working lots and ds is too small too talk. Haven't seen anyone the whole time as much as I want to. Lots of FaceTime etc.

However lots of people are doing as they please now e.g. my friend is seeing her mum again.

It's up to you.

The scientist who came up with this was meeting up and shagging his lover on multiple occasions - as she states she’s in an open relationship we can assume her H knew her plans and they weren’t concerned about any risk to their kids... I dare say the question would have been asked if they actual Numero UNO Expert....

So HE knows the TRUE risk to the general population and made an apparently educated decision that his liaisons were within his risk assessment

Op is talking about seeing her friend face to face. I don’t think they are planning on any shenanigans...

Let’s stamp out the sheepthink? Join the dots, read the reports (the real ones) look at the charts (all of them, not just the stuff they show on briefings!

THINK! It’s not what you’re being told!

I understand why you want to, I do too. However if I do it then my two teenagers are desperate for some teenage friend chat and company too. So if I do it, they would want to do it and then everyone will want to do it.

So for that reason I’m following guidelines at the moment and I’m afraid that’s why I think you should too. Sorry, I do understand how difficult it is though and I know other single people who have been meeting up for a socially distanced walk.

Oh please MzHz use another argument at least - one he had already had covid and we all know he made that decision with his dick.

Intelligence, responsibility and being in the public eye doesn’t stop people doing as they please especially when it comes to sex. Most foolish of him was to think he wasn’t being watched by the press what a numpty

Don’t follow the guildlines that’s a choice people make but they are clear and the reasoning why the vast majority of countries (and many have far stricter than the uk) have followed a lockdown is because they know it helps lessen dramatically the spread of covid. The public simply would not always use their common sense that isn’t anything to do with knowledge or intelligence we would all think oh just this once or twice won’t make a difference X that by what 40 million adults and there is your problem. That why we have laws and rules in place to keep us in line to keep us in order

OP, you should not do this. Please phone instead. We all have to do what's asked of us. It's critical.

If you are both well and keep your distance outdoors then I would say you will be OK.

Thanks @EnthusiasmIsDisturbed, but assuming he didn’t club her with his all knowing dick and seeing as she’s a mother and has a husband who knows she’s shagging Prof Cockdown, the subject of risk will have been raised and discussed and agreed that she was at no risk, her kids, her h. Him having had it only means that he could carry it and not know...

The virus is not dangerous to the huge majority of the population

If we’re allowed to go to Tesco’s, sitting 2m away from a friend for half an hour is no more dangerous

I do sooooo wish people would stop the sheepthink and see what’s happening and make their own decisions based on their circumstances.

None of this govt stuff sounds right, because it isn’t. It just isn’t backed up by science to support the idea that it’s a all killing deadly disease

It is deadly, but to less than 1% of a small slice of the population.

We’re going to all have to get kids to school in a matter of weeks, go back to work etc. The major communication programme to pump all the new information at the sheepthinkers started today.

I went to collect some rubble from.a friend's garden a couple of weeks ago (for putting in the bottom of planters). She came out of the house while i was there, and we had a socially distanced chat on the drive. It was actually lovely to see her and her DH face to face.

Of course it's lovely to see people face to face. But that's not what we've been asked to do. I am lonely, desperately lonely. My business has gone bankrupt. I have no money coming in for the next 6 months.

But, if everyone makes their own interpretation of the rules, and bends it in their own favour, then collectively we are reducing the chance of getting this under control and either extending the time that restrictions are in place, or increasing the number of people who are adversely affected and may die.

You can exercise more now so arrange to meet a friend at a park or somewhere, you can walk and then have a chat. 2m apart, wash your hands, don't touch your face and you'll be fine.

MzHz his friend visited (let’s day then for a cup of tea) after he has tested positive and self isolated. What she was doing traveling to see him is he vulnerable well he didn’t claim to be

And as for sheepthink we have to go to Tesco or Sainsbury’s as we need food to eat as do our families. Meeting up with a friend for a chit chat because we want to is not a necessity. We have all had to make sacrifices

The lockdowns have been supported by the vast majority of experts. Governments have to apply this expert knowledge to their public who left to their own choices would do what suits them best not what is best for their community that’s how we are and I doubt many would think well maybe I won’t do that as my local hospital is struggling with covid admissions hey would think just this once is fine.

I am not against lockdown being lifted slowly but us all making decisions based on our common sense really means I shall do what suits me best

South Korea (that have managed far better than we have) are tightening restrictions again and there is an increase in infections in Germany

Having seen how ill someone can be with so called mild symptoms and knowing a number who have had covid and weeks now symptom free but still not feeling well it is I believe a virus that we need to try as much as possible to restrict. Few may die but many are very very ill

Could you physically distance and get good quality time with such young dc? I know i find it hard enough to distance with young dc. Ends up being stressful just to walk sometimes.