To let my parents into my house

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Seeing as next weekend it’s officially allowed will 6 days make all the difference? They haven’t been inside since Mother’s Day the day before official lockdown and it’s chucking it down here today so don’t want them stood on my drive getting soaked. My dsis thinks I’m out of order but she would say that seeing as she’s a SP and has been able to have our DP in her house for the last couple of weeks. AIBU?

YABU. If 6 days doesn’t matter, what about 7,8,9? Where’s the cut off? Just stick to the guidelines and enjoy having them in your house next week.

OP don't forget this is MN where no one ever puts a step out of line. Everyone adheres to every bit of advice and guidance on everything.

Meanwhile in the real world....

I get what you’re saying but will any of us be less of a risk in 6 days time? They could potentially come next week or the week after, be a symptomatic and pass it on to any one of us.

Lol yep I get what you’re saying lol. I’ll be honest and admit i have stuck to rules throughout apart from the fact I went into my grandma’s house for like a minute as she was struggling to open the catch on her front window in order to open it more so she could to talk to me and hear what I was saying. She moved back to the dining room and I popped in to open the window and then went straight back out. I’ll prepare to be flamed right now lol.

Just to see us and our dc. They wouldn’t stay long and won’t be hugging any of us etc.

I've stuck completely to the rules the whole time, but am getting increasingly frustrated at the government now making bonkers decisions like opening up borders and international holidays. It's madness!! So in all honesty, I'm starting to think that we're capable of making better decisions than they are, and if you've all been good at practising social distancing and hygiene measures, then common sense would say a few days isn't going to make much of a difference.

I would, if they are happy to as well,use a bit of common sense

Yeah me too I think it’s madness. We won’t be going on holiday at all this year or rushing out to busy places once they open. I’ve worked from home throughout all this. Dh has wfh partially and our dc haven’t been to school since March and won’t be returning until September. None of us have underlying medical conditions neither do my parents who are 58 and 59 so we are all low risk.

Just use the Dominic Cummings rule of thumb, will it make you look like a caring son if you bend the rules -yes. Will you be painted as using your own intelligent measure to get around rather clunky rules - yes.

Just keep it quiet!!

YABU.

I have my brother and SIL round for dinner on Friday. The day before we are ALLOWED.
I am such a rebel.

Aw we can be bad together @AuntieMarys lol. I thought I’d be so “good” throughout but 3 months is such a long time and I’ve had enough now. Like some of you have said most of us can be trusted to use our common sense.

Just say it's a BLM protest

Regardless of the official rules we should all be asking ourselves who will be put at risk or be impacted by the social contact in question? If any of you were to get symptoms in the next few days, what would be the impact of that? If you all had to isolate while test results came back would that negatively impact others? If the answer is no and no one is high risk from a medical perspective then crack on.

And here we go again, typical MN responses, I would, use common sense, Dominic Cummings got away with it

It’s the rules at the moment, yes it’s ‘only’ six days, but what could happen in those six days if everyone did this rather than giving the virus six more days to die out

Just follow the damn rules

I would

For all the mixing that's going on, I'd say you are less at risk now, than later. The infection rate is starting to rise in some places.

Or book a holiday. You can sit on the plane, but not in your house. It all makes sense doesn't it?

No, it makes no sense at all.

Of course they can come in. If you all have been following the rules and none of you work frontline in the NHS or Care Homes, customer facing or in a place where there have been recent cases the chances of you catching C19 are slim to none.

The equivalent of driving 72 miles an hour on an clear motorway in good weather I would think. And the chances of being 'caught' are even lower. The police won't care.

Frankly, given my neighbours having people over for the night and large garden gatherings I think there’s only me sticking to any of this and I’m seriously wondering why I bother.

@Chloemol there's no chance of this virus dying out now that the government are opening up borders and international travel. We are going to be in a much much worse place in another month or two. Allowing someone into your house in the situation the OP describes is very low risk, the government are talking about allowing the risk to be massively increased again. I know that's not the point of this thread but I don't understand why people aren't up in arms about this after all the hard work everyone has done in abiding by the rules for the last 3 months.

Pass them a duster and the hoover and they will be legal.

I get what you’re saying but will any of us be less of a risk in 6 days time?

I would assume yes, and that's why they didn't make the change effective from an earlier date.

I'm going to my friends house for a belated birthday (hers) coffee and chat on Tuesday.
We haven't actually discussed it, but I'm fully assuming that if the weather is good, we'll sit in the garden, and if it isn't, we'll sit indoors.

My sister might well come round for dinner next week sometime, which might be a day or two early. We don't care.

Whatever you do OP, some people will care. Just do what suits you and your family best.