Fab news for single parents and those living alone !!

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52988840

Ok,this is good news,but what if I as a 43 year old, lives with my 21 year old, as well as 7 and 5 year old? Can i now go and visit my partner etc?

NO.

I can visit my parents 🥳

@unicornparty

From a newspaper
one of the two households in the bubble must be either a single person living alone or a single parent with children

I also listened to Boris , single person or single mother with children
can bubble with one other household. No mention that has to be single. I also listened to Chris Whitt answering a member of the publics question and he also said a single person/parent with another household, no mention they had to be single as well

It’s single person/ single mother with kids and one other household but they can’t mix with any other households, must all self isolate if anyone within the bubble has symptoms and anyone else still has to meet outside social distancing

@Cherryghost

Can someone clarify this situation on whether allowed please?

Single parent wants to pick partner who lives with his parents who are shielding

Well I think it would be down to the partners parents to say no tbh It hasn't explicitly been outlawed but I'd be very mindful of my child's partner coming and going and doing God knows what else if I was shielding

Finally !!

HesterShaw1

Surely if your sister is living with her family so already has contact with others, it would be a better idea for you and your mum to join up and be each other’s support?

How much are they both isolating? Hoenstly in your shoes if I didn't think one was self isolating and vulnerable whilst the other was round the shops every two days, I'd be honest with them both and offer to have them both in your cuddle bubble. I'll get shot for saying it but I would.

For goodness sake, why can't we ever have am important briefing where the govt don't omit vital information, contradict themselves or otherwise cause massive confusion and upset. Write down what you need to say if you can't remember the rules you've just come up with, it's not difficult!!

I'd like to bubble with my sister's family but she has a husband. I'm a single parent. Most of my friends are in couples really. I don't think I'll find a bubble if it is 1 adult only.

I'm ok with that as long as this doesn't replace the 6 people outside thing?

Ok,this is good news,but what if I as a 43 year old, lives with my 21 year old, as well as 7 and 5 year old? Can i now go and visit my partner etc? well who is partner etc? If they're single or head a single parent family with no adult children, yes

This is wonderful, my widowed mother who hasn’t touched or been touched by another human being in 3 months can have a hug from me and the children this weekend.

Surely if your sister is living with her family so already has contact with others, it would be a better idea for you and your mum to join up and be each other’s support?

She would want to see DSis more than me because of the grandchildren. Oh well, we're certainly not going to agonise over it, especially as one of us lives in Wales where anything fun is not actually allowed at all.

FWIW I don't think this will last very long

well I'm still confused.

I have a long distance parent, living on their own.
I live with my DH.

I assume I can't visit my parent and stay overnight, as I have another adult at home (DH.)

And I also assume he could not visit with me , even if I could.

@Chickychickydodah why is it stupid? It is a small start for households to begin mixing. Outside hospitals and care homes, households are the next main transmitters of the virus. So they want to start is slowly, and it is mainly aimed at single adults/single parents who have had no contact within 2m of another adult in the last 3 months.

Jingling me too. DD long distance and I’d need multiple trains, underground, taxis to get to her. If I could drive I guess it would be safer but have no idea whether it would be allowed to travel to the other end of the country using public transport.

What a load of bollocks. My dm is shielding. If my df was alive he would have been too. What is the difference if I had bubbled with them both, bearing in mind our household (4) have been nowhere but food shopping?

So if two single adults live alone, can they not do the same. What difference does it make if neither of them are parents?

What do you want them to do? The shielding group are the group who are most likely to die. There is literally nothing they can do. They dont control the virus, obviously, and there is no vaccine. You have a choice; continue to sheild or ignore advice and risk your life by going out. Its not ageist or disabalist or anything else people are saying it is. There is literally nothing they can do to help you if you start mixing with people, so do you want them to give you the green light to risk your own life?

You can do that anyway, but dont blame the government if you get sick.

How about everyone else stays in at certain times so we can go out without the risk of meeting up with other people? Just an hour or two a week would help. As life begins to get back to normal for everyone else. we feel increasingly sidelined and invisible.

Honestly it’s just bullshit.
No one is going to pick 1 parent over a PIL/DD etc
Just wash your hands etc & use your common sense

Been totally on my own since March, now have to decide which of my grown up children I chose to see, both live over an hours drive away.

So, the problem is this brings up more questions than answers! My daughter lives with her boyfriend and two friends, I don’t want to meet up with her flat mates, I only want to see her! If she comes to see me, does that mean the rest of her household have to come too? Can they go and see their parents? Exactly the same situation with my son and his house share.

Any idea on that one?!

(For clarity, I don’t have Siblings, or parents anymore so my kids are the only people I’d wish to ‘bubble’ with)

@Canalhouse I think you can use any form of travel you need to. I would drive but would need lots of loo stops so that worries me slightly as my elderly parent is very elderly and I can't guarantee I'd be virus free on arrival, even using gel at every service station.

Wy is that TWELVE FUCKING WEEKS LATER they government still can't be clear ' singing from the same hymn sheet..... PM says X is allowed, MinisterY says Y is allowed.... spokesperson rushes out and says "err actually only Z is allowed"

SMH

@HalfDutchGirl My understanding is your daughter can come to you but the rest of the housemates can't see anyone else, if she does.

You could stay with her though.

Most people I know have generally respected the rules but I don't know anyone, post Cummings, who wasn't already seeing a partner they didn't live with or parents who live alone.