Should we enforce social distancing with primary aged children

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What do you do with your primary aged children? We've had a friends to play in our garden (one at a time, we're in Scotland) with our DS and I haven't enforced SD. These friends' parents have done similar when our DS is in their garden too. I feel children have been through enough with all of this especially with missing so much school and SD is so alien to them. I think the emerging evidence seems to show that children do not get covid as much as adults and don't seem to spread as much as first thought.
Hopefully from Friday in Scotland we move to phase 2 and people from another family can come into our homes so I wanted to see what MN thought about SD with primary aged children. Am I completely wrong here? No shielding issues with any of the children involved or families.

There is no science, only spin.

I did a regular walk in the early days of the pandemic on a road in our village and there were three families who would let all their kids play out together whilst the parents had an SD chat.

Why do the covid police always think they have the right to be rude and sling insults at people?

"Morons" "fucking idiots"

Because some people have lost all sense of proportion and common sense (and ability to communicate in any meaningful way, although most didn't have that ability anyway). If people are already inclined to being spiteful and aggressive, being the Covid police has given them a way to legitimise it somehow.

I think so. It is not SAFE. In fact I think the 2m rule is too lenient. I have long said that at least 5m should be the minimum IF the dirty germ vectors have to be out in the general population.

My eldest 12 has had socially distanced picnic with her fiend, my 9 year old has had one too, they started off ok but found it harder to keep the distance. We were outside and my daughter had been to school with me too work and her fiends brother had retuned to school so we kind of all at same risk as all in school (same) it was lovely for the girls, me and the mum have only really said hi in passing, dropped to kids parties,l etc so we had a good chat and pros or started a nice friendship. Both my DD have been so much happier after seeing their friends or as my eldest said a real life person haha

The infection rate in the region I live in is currently less than 0.05%. My 2 and 4 year old have been playing with their cousins or the same age. They don't see anyone else, or go anywhere else and neither does anyone else in the household, other than click and collect. The virus is not going to magically spring up out of nowhere because two small children are playing less than 2m apart in my garden.

I feel like people have completely lost the ability to engage their brains and assess risk, with so many either falling into the camp of 'covid police - everyone's a super spreading murderer' or 'covid deniers - I don't give a fuck, let's party'. Why have we lost the ability to make safe decisions for ourselves?

How do you know what the infection rate is in your local area? Is it logged somewhere?