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Now illegal to have sex with partner you don't live with?

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Sueannnnna · 01/06/2020 11:46

Lots of newspapers/online articles announcing this today.
Being in a private place with partner and having sex can lead to a £100 fine if i've read correctly.

The world is going cuckoo.
But who cares about seeing my boyfriend, at least I can go shopping in Primark and go sit on a packed train (sarcasm)

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Floatyboat · 02/06/2020 12:19

@sue

Please read your own text. The projections persuaded ministers of the need to act. He did not tell them what to do, it's a politician's job to balance his predictions against economic ones, human rights ones etc.

But regardless, it seems strange you want say he did nothing wrong when you want to do what he did.

Floatyboat · 02/06/2020 12:21

@Sueannnnna she can hug them outside. What's this obsession with doing everything inside. The most risky place to be

Sueannnnna · 02/06/2020 12:23

He did do something wrong. He helped to persuade ministers to impose lockdown and how it should be imposed and then met up with his mistress.

I don't ubderstand how your comparing me to him?
I haven't been in a meeting with Boris and co and told them we must lockdown and then went on to have sex with somebody.

I think people should make their own risk assessments and I am seeing my boyfriend.
I am not reporting my neighbours and then sleeping with my boyfriend otherwise i would be a hypocrite

Your comparison makes no sense and you seem to be a trolling.

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Mascotte · 02/06/2020 12:23

Definitely a gf

Sueannnnna · 02/06/2020 12:24

@Floatyboat ermmm but guidance states that even outside stay 2m apart so no that teacher grandmother is not 'supposed' to hug her grandchild.
But I hope they do. If the government deems them fit to be with other people's children then I hope they hug the life out of their grandchildren/nieces/nephews

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Floatyboat · 02/06/2020 12:27

@sue

I don't think you read the Imperial paper did you. He presented multiple scenarios and the consequences of various management strategies. And there's no law about 2m.

DeeCeeCherry · 02/06/2020 12:28

Switch of your phone mic, Alexa, Echo, TV & get on with it 😉.You can't switch off authoritarian neighbours tho.

Sueannnnna · 02/06/2020 12:32

@Floatyboat we are nothing like Neil Ferguson so please shush about that now, i'm not even going to waste my time on stupid petty comparisons now.

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Sueannnnna · 02/06/2020 12:32

@DeeCeeCherry better burn my Alexa then Grin

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MrMeeseekscando · 02/06/2020 12:37

I'll be seeing mine in his home as soon as I'm away from nosy, interfering twats.
He doesn't have an alexa Grin

Floatyboat · 02/06/2020 12:38

@sue

Sorry how is it different. Is it a moral judgement your making? Should the law exempt people having good honest relationships and not dirty sexual ones. I'm genuinely confused. He should be the poster boy for your cause?

Mascotte · 02/06/2020 12:40

I've reported Alexa for blatantly flouting the rules to shag Siri.

MrMeeseekscando · 02/06/2020 12:40

"Dirty sexual ones"

Alright Mary Whitehouse
Calm down

Hearhoovesthinkzebras · 02/06/2020 12:40

me seeing my boyfriend and others seeing their partners is not going to make everybody drop dead is it?
People are hysterical and scare mongering!!

No you alone doing it won't make everyone drop dead but multiple people doing it will push rates of of infection up, or do you think that only you can do it? If one person infects three others than by the tenth transmission 400 people are infected, from one initial case.

Let's also ban co-habitating couples having sex then if sex is such a risk.

Those of us shielding are told to not breach the two metre rule, even inside our own homes, because it is a risk.

You keep going on about sex and about couples who don't live together. It is t about sex. It's not morality policing. It's about the fact that two households can't mix. Yes, you're saying that you and your partner aren't a high risk but then many other non cohabiting couples will be living with other people, so say.living with parents or in a house share. If government say that non cohabiting couples can now.meet for sex then that is a huge risk of one partner transferring the virus from their household into another household, potentially spreading it to three or four people.in that household.

Government are trying to reduce the opportunity for infection. As lockdown eased yes, the numbers of opportunities will increase. So, people.will be going to.work or going on public transport. That's not great for controlling the virus but at ten same time they are trying to get the economy back up and running. They haven't said restaurants and clubs and theatres can re open have they? They've not said "well, Karen's getting the tube to work so might as well re open Weatherspoons, what's the difference?" They are controlling as much as they can the number of opportunities. I don't agree with what the government are doing because I think we should have had track and trace in place before any easing of lockdown but I can understand prioritising what interactions can take place and in what order.

Sueannnnna · 02/06/2020 12:41

@Floatyboat hahaha no. He was a government advisor, hence why he doesnt have that job now.
Maybe you should start a petition for co-habitating couples who work to not have sex since sex is such a vile, awful thing.

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MrMeeseekscando · 02/06/2020 12:43

Disgusting that sex business isn't it?
Coitus should be brief and unfulfilling!

Floatyboat · 02/06/2020 12:44

@sue

I'm not saying sex is dirty. I'm wondering if you are. You certainly seem reluctant to do it outside. Why do you distance yourself from Neil Ferguson? I wonder if you're making an old fashioned moral judgement?

MrMeeseekscando · 02/06/2020 12:47

Outdoor sex is generally uncomfortable if you don't want to be seen.

I hear.

Mascotte · 02/06/2020 12:47

I think floaty is showing his over zealous interest in the sex lives of others

Hearhoovesthinkzebras · 02/06/2020 12:47

@Mascotte

But to be fair to *@Hearhoovesthinkzebras* they have resolutely been against everything except staying indoors in isolation from the start so no change.
No I haven't. I've always seen the need to bring this virus under control, right from the start and the only way to do this is to lockdown. We locked down far too late and now we are left with needing a prolonged lockdown.

I've also been a very early proponent of the track and trace system long before anyone else on this site and was repeatedly shouted down for it. Strangely enough government now see the need to introduce it.

You cannot bring a pandemic virus under control by allowing life to continue as normal. You just can't and those of you calling for people to be allowed to assess their own risks are illustrating exactly why that won't work ; if you can't see the difference between shopping in Primark and having sex then you are not able to assess risk.

Sueannnnna · 02/06/2020 12:47

@floatyboat

Of course some people are reluctant to "do it" outside!! It shouldnt even get to the point people feel they have to go outside for it.

Some people don't mind having sex outside whereas others don't feel comfortable.

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Floatyboat · 02/06/2020 12:48

Nope. Just trying to challenge some selfish viewpoints

Sueannnnna · 02/06/2020 12:49

@MrMeeseekscando How dare women want sex with their partners. Who do they think they are? Neil Furegouson?

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Floatyboat · 02/06/2020 12:49

@Sueannnnna
So you are a prude?

Hearhoovesthinkzebras · 02/06/2020 12:49

So those of you planning to meet up with partners - are you going to refuse to download the track and trace app too?

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