Will the new law on social gatherings make you reconsider your activities?

[Redolent]

Yes or no?

[primabloodydonna]

No. I'll continue seeing the people I've previously been seeing.

[roarfeckingroarr]

No

[Floralbean]

And more than 6 people can be in a pub etc, I don't see how people actually spaced out is any more of a risk, but it mainly affects women so of course the government isn't arsedm

[DipSwimSwoosh]

Funerals are exempt.

[DamageInc]

@CarolEffingBaskin

No, because it’s beyond a joke and now just completely random bollocks. I’m getting on with life, like everyone should.

This really.
We have a cottage booked for next week, 2 households. 7 of us.
Have told DH if questioned we'll just pretend we don't know him 😂

We could un invite MIL......

[Pommes]

What does socially mean? Meeting in a house for dinner is obvious but what about events? Bonfire night for example, will those events be cancelled? The messaging is all so mixed: socially distance but let's cram everyone into restaurants together for a 50% discount, don't meet with with more than 5 other people but DO go back into workplaces (and on the way in buy Pret).

[Titsywoo]

@C33P0 up to 30 people was fine if socially distanced which we were going to do

[fifteenisthemagicnumber]

@Lovelydovey no it can't. The rules are clear; no more than 6 people of any age. It's irrelevant that they are in a bubble at school. It's now illegal for them to meet in large groups outside of school.

[yearinyearout]

No, I didn't realise it had gone above six anyway. I don't understand why they are classing inside and out as the same, when clearly it spreads more indoors.

[cantkeepawayforever]

[quote Floralbean]@monsterad are you being serious?[/quote]
The idea o a risk budget is very simple to understand, yes - and i cannot understand why it isn't made MUCH clearer in all the publicity around Covid.

Everything is a balance of risks. Some things which we agree as a society are essential - education, work, healthcare - are 'big ticket' items in our overall risk budget. As a rweasult, we have to reduce our expenditure of risk on any non-essentialacticvities to keep the whole thing within bounds.

It's like having a menu, and £10 to spend. Just because there are a whole list of dishes at £7.99, you can't have the whole menu, you have to choose just one of them. And once you've spent that £7.99, you only have a couple of pounds left, so you are very limited in what else you can choose.

[fifteenisthemagicnumber]

We will need to cancel a family event that I personally wasn't comfortable with attending anyway. But, before the change I know I would have been shouted down (it's DH's family, not mine). Now I'll just keep repeating that it's illegal so it definitely can't go ahead.

[Helenj1977]

We're already a family of 5. It won't stop us going to my parents house and making it 7.

Dd3 is only 20mo so it's crazy she's included.

[GiantPinesAhem]

As a household of 7 it basically puts us back to not being able to do anything at all.

[HipTightOnions]

[quote Titsywoo]@C33P0 up to 30 people was fine if socially distanced which we were going to do[/quote]
No it wasn’t fine, it was still against guidance. It just wasn’t illegal until now.

[roarfeckingroarr]

I'm having a small party in a couple of weeks. Absolutely won't be changing plans for it in light of the most recent random bollocks guidance.

[primabloodydonna]

No one is going to pay the blindest bit of attention and frankly why should they, when we are ordered back to work and school?

I'm carrying on with my life.

[EekThreek]

As a family of 5, we're only going to be able to see one other person at a time from next week, so yes, we are rearranging our planned activities

But this is still preferable to being in full lockdown, with no school or clubs running.

[SleepyMeNeedsChamomileTea]

NO! I'm a single parent with two kids, so I will still go to my sisters house with her husband and two kids, still see my best friend who's also a single parent with three kids. I'm not going to hide myself away working from home in a flat everyday and isolate myself from my support network. They pushed everyone out for meals etc and now this. I'm doing my own thing with friends and family as I'm not going to damage my mental health anymore this year.

[MarcelineMissouri]

No although only in a very minor way. I really truly feel it should be 8 people as this covers 2 average sized families. So the bbq we have planned for ds birthday with 4 of us and one other family of 4 will go ahead. How can it be more dangerous to meet one other family than having people from different households come over??

[compulsiveliar2019]

Nope. Things are getting ridiculous now. Stupid rules that will do nothing to stop the spread and just increase the ridiculous levels of paranoia and fear.
We need to move forwards now. Before we loose more lives from non covid issues!

[Batshitbeautycosmeticsltd]

Making people gathering illegal, nope, I'll never condone that or perpetuate that at all. NEVER.

[fifteenisthemagicnumber]

Those of you who are going to just ignore this and "get on with things", do you have people to just "get on with it" with? Parties etc still going ahead, will no one in the group be worried about the fact that you're breaking the law?

[BananaPop2020]

@compulsiveliar2019 I feel the same as you. This whole thing has become ludicrous. Some of these rules are so counterproductive and nonsensical.

[SecondAttempt]

@cantkeepawayforever I think you need to go onto every thread and say that! It’s clear to me that this step is needed to benefit schools and the economy. Deaths in Spain are continue to rise which I find worrying

[cantkeepawayforever]

@compulsiveliar2019

Nope. Things are getting ridiculous now. Stupid rules that will do nothing to stop the spread and just increase the ridiculous levels of paranoia and fear.
We need to move forwards now. Before we loose more lives from non covid issues!

This rule is NOT NEW. It has always been the guidance. The only change is that it is now law. No more pananoia and fear - just exactly the same as before, but with some teeth to reduce the worst excesses.

Or maybe not, if everyone is just So Special that they can't read, understand or follow the guidance...