Meeting up with family members

[Frigginella]

What’s the opinion on meeting up with not high risk family members in the countryside for a walk and adhering to the 2 metre distance? Children should be old enough to adhere to this, if not the visit will be immediately stopped.

I’m unsure to be honest. I just think we need to do as told and avoid all unnecessary contact.

No, stay at home

The message is really very clear..... please stay at home

In fairness, I took the kids out today to an extremely quiet outdoor area. We took a football and their bikes & scooters. They had an absolute ball and we weren’t within about 20 meters of anyone else at any time. So I’m not entirely against getting some fresh air if you can be sensible about it but I wouldn’t have gone with someone who doesn’t stay in our household.

Also, we have stayed at home completely since Monday.

Government advice recommends exercise and getting outside - away from others. The virus isn't airborne it's contact or droplets. Your call on family members. I probably wouldn't as it's too easy to forget right now. It's n a few weeks we'll be more trained/becoming habit. Can you wait...?

OP - Please don't do this. The latest death figures have now gone up to 233 and there are over 5,000 now confirmed cases which are serious for hospital treatment. The sooner we stop all non essential contact the sooner things will be able to go back to normal.

Sometimes one-day - That's OK because you were away from other people and it was just your household, so no risk to yourselves or anyone else.

@doubleshotespresso the message is that you are ok to go for walks away from people. If we did this it would be away from all overs and 2 metres away from family members. Less risk than the supermarket. But I am more cautious after the death figures today. It’s just hard, especially when I’m expected to work as normal so this seems safer than going to work for me.

The government advice supports your idea so I would do it provided the kids can be trusted to keep their distance

So if you're working as normal, then you're higher risk and could potentially infect them.

Is that something you want to risk?

The fact that you're working as normal doesn't mean you should do stuff that doesn't seem as risky. It means you should be taking even more care not to infect others.

Do you have to drive to get there? Advice here is you stay near home though it's fine to go for a walk. playgrounds etc are closed.

If you insist on doing this, make sure you get into (spread out lengthwise ) single file when passing other people. We went for a quiet walk, most people were being sensible and giving others plenty of space but one family group we passed took up nearly the whole lane.

@HoldMyLobster I know. My point of working as normal was that unfortunately the levels of risk seem lower when my job is high risk.
We won’t go, it’s not worth it. Just getting pressure from family members who are obviously missing the children and this seemed the Safest and only way they could see them in person but we’ll FaceTime instead.

Good decision Frigginella (love your username btw).