Please settle argument over Boris’s latest restrictions

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DD(13) thinks he can carry on his paper round. I say no.

Who is right?

Surely the newsagents will be closed anyway it's only food shops that are allowed to remain open
Newsagents are allowed to stay open.

It'll be honesty boxes in the supermarkets next to prevent interraction between customers and staff.

I understood the statement as anyone who can’t work from home should continue to work. Deliveries are still allowed. I would therefore say yes but having read the thread am in the minority!!! Would be much better than the factory my husband has to work in! 🤦‍♀️

Also re the transmission via paper. It doesn’t transmit via soft surfaces and anyway paperboys wear gloves....it’s still cold in the morning!

I would have said yes. Just make sure he is wearing gloves and sanitising his hands it lasts a long while on surfaces and he will be delivering to the vulnerable.

Yes to allotment. But maybe be careful with opening gates ect?

@5zeds
It’s three weeks not a lifetime. Do it right and we can all start getting over this thing.

You really think it's only going to be 3 weeks?🤦🏾‍♀️

Paper round is hardly fucking essential

Please watch his speech again instead of spreading false information.

He gave four reasons you could leave the house. One was to go to work if it can’t be done from home. He did not say but only if your work was “essential”.

I do not understand how so many people heard something so very different to what was said.

The government website, as screenshotted by a pp also states it clearly. You can go to work if you cannot do your job from home. It does not say you can go to work if you cannot do it from home but only if you’re a key worker or if your work is essential.. why did some people hear something he didn’t say?

He is not closing factories, non essential on line shops, offices etc. What he is closing was clearly listed with exceptions in that category now on the government website.

Everyone else can stay open and everyone else can and should go to work if their job cannot be done from home.

So yes, this includes a paper round. As long as he respects social distancing.

Also re the transmission via paper. It doesn’t transmit via soft surfaces
That is not true. It lives for longer on hard surfaces but definitely lives on softer ones too. I think seven hours for cardboard.

My elderly aunt has no internet access. Paper round could be important for those in a similar situation.

Yes he can work. @Bluntness100 is 100% correct.

Could anyone clarify for me. My son and daughter in law are both key workers ( supermarket ) they have a one year old. I normally look after my dgc when they are at work, they only live round the corner from me. They have no other childcare. Will I be able to still look after my dgc while they both work.?

@4321baby unfortunately not 😢 I’m sorry. It’ll be hard for you and them but it’s for all your own safety 😊

It might be only three weeks (or therabouts) if people did it fucking properly.

No boss. You should NOT go out does NOT mean you CAN come to my house with a fucking stack of headed paper when I can send things by headed e-mails. [bangs head]

No, they should be staggering their shifts surely and this should have started over a week ago.

So sorry to jump in here was meant to start a new thread, sorry oo

Thank you peasefox

It says that you can go out to get food so surely an allotment counts in that bracket? Also it's got to be safer than being inside with all the surfaces and people who are potentially infected.

I would say delivering papers will continue because some people have limited access to news.

I had just persuaded my elderly father to get the paper delivered. I hope they still do as otherwise he will just walk to the shop. I know he shouldn't, but he will.

Can someone put my mind at ease. For the past 3 years I've travelled 25 miles every friday to collect my kids from their mom, then taking them back on Saturday evening or Sunday morning. I'm not key worker. Will I still be able to do this for the next 3 weeks?

And it will be elderly people getting newspapers delivered.

Re: children seeing both parents.
My ex and I have both been at home for a week and he has seen the kids in that time anyway. We are going to use our allowed exercise to walk to exchange the kids and neither of us come into close contact with anyone else. My son was extremely upset last night at the thought of not seeing his dad who he spends 40% of his time with.

Deliveries are still allowed, would it be classed as a delivery service?

What’s to stop people all heading off to Mount Snowdon again and claiming it’s their exercise for the day

The police.

That is really good if you have that sort of relationship with your ex Sunshine.

I have a friend who works in a legal firm and she said they are going crazy with all the separated partners trying to withold contact etc and resulting frenzy.

With everything else that is going on it must be frustrating when people simply can't behave like functioning adults.

@WatermelonEatingCat He had an affair but I’ve dug very deep to enable the kids to maintain a good relationship with him. It wasn’t their fault and he is a great dad, fortunately, even if he wasn’t the best husband.
I get that’s it’s more difficult for a lot of other people.