2 metre rule reduced

[Alex50]

Horray hairdressers are opening

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-53146191

I wonder if shops will keep at 2m, so masks not compulsory. Bit difficult with some people staying at 2m and others 1m.

How so we wear a mask in a pub and drink , surely touching it continuously is a risk

Yes, it will be difficult but I think people will get used to complying as long as it is made crystal clear what is meant and the media describe it consistently and accurately

But I’m not holding me breath. It’s not being described as ‘stays 2m but can be 1m+mask’

Rather ‘cut to 1m’

So I suspect it’s a lost point already

I have an FFP2 mask on order. Yes, I know the general public aren’t meant to go for that grade; but as a ‘soon to be released into a largely non-distancing population’ shielded person, I think I need the better kit

How so we wear a mask in a pub and drink , surely touching it continuously is a risk

You accept that you are about to indulge in unsafe behaviour and you have to trust the health status of the person or people you are choosing to share risks with. Which means the infection status of anyone that anyone in your party has been close to in the previous two weeks

Venues will (initially at least) be table service only, and at least one person on the table will have to provide name and contact info.

If there is a confirmed case at your table or amongst venue staff (or possibly anywhere in the venue, though perhaps only neighbouring tables), then you will need to quarantine in isolation for 14 days

@iVampire I am happy to accept it but just seems to defeat the object and actually i would be happy to sit without the mask where i then don't have keep touching so less risk to me and those in my table would be like minded as we wont be sat with strangers

@Rafflesway

Being selfish here I know but this is still no real benefit to DH and I. ☹️

Haven’t seen or spoken with our adult dd - only child - since 22 March.
She lives in supported living as she has SLD and we won’t be able to visit again until social distancing ends totally. We don’t phone her as she only has the speech/understanding of a toddler so it would distress her far too much. Same with trying to see her through a window/gate. ☹️

Fortunately, at the centre where she lives the staff are amazing and have sent us videos/cards etc. and phone us several times each week. She seems to be coping fine but it is agony being away from her.

Sorry, just feeling sorry for myself. 😢

oh I feel for you. we have just started to be allowed to visit. SD in place and outside. so bloody hard as dd can't talk. normally I hold her hand and we "chat" not very easy to do this with a table in between. hope you get to see your dd soon.

@SqidgeBum people use holiday clubs which aren't open. Also for the large part of July kids are at school normally, and currently a lot of them are not, or not full time.

I'm so happy

@Rafflesway

Being selfish here I know but this is still no real benefit to DH and I. ☹️

Haven’t seen or spoken with our adult dd - only child - since 22 March.
She lives in supported living as she has SLD and we won’t be able to visit again until social distancing ends totally. We don’t phone her as she only has the speech/understanding of a toddler so it would distress her far too much. Same with trying to see her through a window/gate. ☹️

Fortunately, at the centre where she lives the staff are amazing and have sent us videos/cards etc. and phone us several times each week. She seems to be coping fine but it is agony being away from her.

Sorry, just feeling sorry for myself. 😢

Aw, that is shit.

I hope you get to see her soon.

@Rafflesway

Being selfish here I know but this is still no real benefit to DH and I. ☹️

Haven’t seen or spoken with our adult dd - only child - since 22 March.
She lives in supported living as she has SLD and we won’t be able to visit again until social distancing ends totally. We don’t phone her as she only has the speech/understanding of a toddler so it would distress her far too much. Same with trying to see her through a window/gate. ☹️

Fortunately, at the centre where she lives the staff are amazing and have sent us videos/cards etc. and phone us several times each week. She seems to be coping fine but it is agony being away from her.

Sorry, just feeling sorry for myself. 😢

Sorry Raffles, that sounds so tough.

DS Nursery is still not open and when it does it will only for a limited number of places.

But I still can't hug my family who I haven't seen since Christmas.
Or see my father who is in a care home.

I absolutely gutted the swimming pools are opening. We have a local one which is outdoors with outdoors changing rooms and even this is still not allowed. I don't want to shop, or even go to a pub. I just want to swim!

aren't is of course what I meant!

I think the difference between cinemas and theatres is the seat size and spacing. I've heard small independent cinemas will still find it hard to be covid safe so might not open

@Bluesheep8 it is so hard but the virus is still around.

Technically I could form a support bubble with my DM and give her a hug, but she is in her late 80s with a heart condition. So at the moment we meet up regularly socially distancing, but I don’t feel we are in a position yet to hug, much as I want to, because we think the risk is still too high.

Yes the news is getting better and better,I go back to work on the 3rd, 1 day a week to start with just happy to keep my job.

No way I'll be going to a cinema. If they can't manage to pick the popcorn off the floor between screenings I'm buggered if I'll trust them to anti bac an entire seat.

Yes but no nail/beauty salons or gyms?! Why

Because its impossible to wear a mask for a lip and chin wax.

@Bluesheep8. You sound just like me.

to all of us having a tough time in one way or another.

WHO only ever recommended 1m distance anyway I'm not sure why we went for 2m

www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public

That was April Or maybe they went for 2m as they knew people wouldn't stick to it but would at least stay a bit further apart than if they said 1m

raffles thank you

@Bluesheep8 many of us are in similar positions. My family live in ireland. My sister is a nurse in london who is recovering from covid. I am pregnant. I havent seen a single family member since January. All we can do is wait. I try not to get too jealous of others, although its hard.

In Australia since lockdown it has been exactly 1.5 metres, and hardly anyone wearing masks. As of checking 20 mins ago, we've had 7,492 cases and 102 deaths. A few states have had their borders closed for a couple of months now, so travelling has been restricted.

Hes a tually just said to stay 2 metres apart, but where you cant, like doorwayscet, you can do one. So that's not quite the same as everyone do one metre now, which is how lots of people will interpret it.

Whitby has just said it aswell "keep 2 metres where you can" the one metre is only where you cant.