At last! 6 people can meet in a garden!

[BruceAndNosh]

WE can meet family

PIL will choose SIL and her four over us. So no change for us then seeing family as I have none.

I'm shielding but I can't see that sitting a good 5 feet from others in my garden is a risk. If my dh has our friends round for a drink it would be odd for me to sit in the house. I'm not ill.

Is there any science behind the extreme recommendations?

I meant 5 metres.l.

@cptartapp is it a specific six people then? Or just six people at any one time. I haven’t watched the update yet. .

@cptartapp you can see them just not at the same time. It’s 6 people at the same time not altogether

@cptartapp

PIL will choose SIL and her four over us. So no change for us then seeing family as I have none.

You don't need to just choose one. You could visit your PIL on a different day.

@Rainbow12e
Don't do anything at your house that will exclude household members unless they are actually happy to be excluded (which is not the same as saying they are happy to be excluded).

@ToddlerBumpBorderCollie
Doesn't have to be the same people, but you are asked to minimise the numbers of households. Clearly it'd be taking the piss to go from garden party to garden party all day every day but visiting both sets of parents and allowing your children to see a couple of friends with a few days in between visits is perfectly fine.

The scientists will have advised what the risk is for 6/8/10/12 etc people meeting up and the likely affect in the R number.

Scotland have 'allowed' 8 at a slightly higher RRate risk but they aren't ALSO making schools take more kids on Monday

As has been explained - continually. EVERY 'ease up' comes with an RRate risk factor and they have to play around with various options to see which combinations fit together & which do not

The PM & Govt is CLEARLY less Risk Averse & more people pleasing than the Scientists.
They have been as clear as they can that this is too much, too soon.

There was steam coming out if valance & witty's ears when Bozo said about BBQ's. They corrected him as much as they could on live tv. 🙇🏻‍♀️🙄

Did Cummings stay 2 metres apart from his family members? Did he? Really?

@IncrediblySadToo
Scotland have also limited it to two households, whereas England has recognised that this would realistically limit it to one on one contact for many and would therefore be of limited benefit for those who are in the most need of more contact.

No good when you have toddlers who won't social distance.

I don't know what to think anymore.

@pontypridd

Did Cummings stay 2 metres apart from his family members? Did he? Really?

Apparently he did

But fucking hell, it's completely irrelevant. The virus doesn't calculate who to move from & to, depending on what DC did it didn't do! It just takes every single opportunity to move to a fresh host.

Protect your friends & family and don't do things because DC was a twat.

@pontypridd because one idiot broke the rules do we want to be idiots too. This is not a race to the bottom, this is to try and get this virus to a level where we can live a reasonably normal life. If we all want to be idiots we can end up having a stricter lockdown, an even more wrecked economy and more deaths. Why can’t we just accept everything has to be done slowly.

It’ll rain now from Monday

Be very hard not hug children and for little ones not to run to hug. Almost easier not to mix.

Convienient timed for government wanting schools to go back isn’t it? Just when the dodgy nhs track app is supposed to be ready. It’s always cart before the horse isn’t it?

It's not just family is it??

I thought the new guidance said family and friends.

My closest family are 2 hours away so I can only see them occasionally but I'm really looking forward to seeing more than one friend at a time. Unless I've misunderstood it.

And I don't really think that people who have a household are the priority. If you are a family of 4 you don't need to meet another family of 4 in the same way that a single person needs to see their friendship group. Individuals from within households can also now see their friends and family.

Maybe it's because I live alone and have become an anti-social twitching hermit but I don't understand why families need to be together all the time. Just take it in turns to go and see the 5 people each of you wants to see the most.

Meh, most people have been doing this already.

Most people I know have just been doing 1 on 1 meetings, including my kids. So it will be nice to meet up in little groups occasionally. Thank goodness it's May and not November!!

Wheels I bet it. Mine are 10 minutes away but are shielding still. So is my best friend. I really want to be happy for others but I'm not not gonna lie - I'm not that ecstatic!