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

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Yes or no?

Work for a tennis club, we were recently allowed to increase our coaching numbers to 12 in a group (with distancing)no idea yet if this will be allowed to continue or if we’ll have to go back to 6 - if that’s the case the business is basically screwed. We will have to cancel half of our clients & refund. 5 in a group (the coach is number 6) makes about £2 profit!
I wish they would publish the full list of rules & exemptions when they make the announcement

Cantkeepawayforever

Life is full of risks. Most of which we accept as acceptable on a day to day basis. But life has to go on or else what's the point? We have already lost the best part of a year to this virus. At some point other risks matter too.

@cantkeepawayforever my children don't attend a school, so it's not a concern for me. My daughter is due to start next September and unless this shit show is well and truly behind us I wont be enrolling her at all.

I still thought was inly 6 allowed or 2 households and the thirty was just for weddings etc
I think the media kept mentioning the 30 and people thought it was allowed for anything when i don't think that was actually the case

I have also decided not to enrol my son at school.

It's alarming to see how many people are simply planning to ignore the guidance. So many convinced that they know best and that the rules don't apply to them. I guess we're all fucked then.

This is why the Sweden model could never have worked in the UK.

Really @primabloodydonna, what motivated that decision for you?

I hate arbitrary, illogical rules. Hated them at school and hate them now.

Wear a mask? Yes, agree, very sensible.

Maintain 2m distance from strangers in shops and at the pub? No problem, very sensible.

Hand sanitise and hand wash frequently? Agree, very sensible.

Don't attend a party with 25 people from different households? Of course I won't, very sensible.

Have a meet up with 6 people, but not 7 = pointless arbitrary rule.

It's all absolute crap and makes no sense at all.

As a family of 6, this means I can no longer see anyone, expected back at work in October and GP's are my childcare (I only do one day a week anyway) but pubs, restaurants and fucking football are all ok.

How come 7 people aren't allowed indoors at my house but I can sit in a pub with 30+.

It's a joke. I was following the rules and I'm not mixing with many people anyway but surely the government can see this doesn't make sense.

@Titsywoo

Will have to as we had an event for 30 people organised in a function room in 11 days time. Nightmare as it is people travelling from all over the country and everyone has paid for hotel rooms.

I sympathise and hope you can arrange, but this wasn’t within the rules anyway. It was 30 outdoors and two household indoors. The rules were so confusing though so I’m not criticising just pointing out indoors hasn’t changed.

Really@primabloodydonna, what motivated that decision for you?

I'd always liked the idea of homeschooling as I dislike the structure and rigidity of mainstream education. Covid confirmed that choice. I'd rather my son saw his extended family than attended reception. In the country I come from schooling doesn't start til the age of 7 anyway.

No

nope, there are six of us & we won't stop seeing my parents.

How will this affect churches / places of worship? Will we be back to zoom services?

Is this UK wide, or just England?

All these rules are making it hard to keep up with, esp with Scotland etc all doing things slightly differently.

I'm in Scotland - what are the rules here? Because I am completely clueless now. To start with I followed it to the book, but its hard to keep up with what we should be doing anymore.

This Government are taking the piss, unable to gather un groups now going back to 6 unless your crammed in classrooms or factory's, offices or any environment that makes them money!

Funny how Covid is selective like that.🤫😷🙄

Erm, take a look at our politicians for a long list of people who have been deciding rules don't apply to them from the off @AlexaShutUp. The ones who make the headlines are only the ones unlucky enough to get caught.

If politicians are at it, why are you surprised that the general populace is too? Huge huge numbers of people have been making their own decisions on things for months and months now. Some blatantly and others privately, some in minor ways and others in significant ones but it's nothing new.

I suspect many people have realised that it's no coincidence that activities that result in a tax contribution are somehow 'covid secure' but directly comparable situations with no money changing hands are not? And with that in mind, perhapd it has become apparent to many that as thinking adults, fully informed on the risks, we are able to judge and evaluate them for ourselves in a far more accurate way than our so called leaders are able to do.

Posted too early, forgot that pubs are allowed to stay open where there is NO SD going on, yet you can't have 6 or more people around your house! ?!?

No. I’ve been meeting 3 other mums with their babies in a park which has been really important to us all in the absence of baby groups etc. This will probably make us more likely to meet inside so we’re not dispersed or fined by the police.

I’m completely sick of the ever changing rules with no end date and no exit plan and in normal human activity being criminalised.

@compulsiveliar2019

Cantkeepawayforever

Life is full of risks. Most of which we accept as acceptable on a day to day basis. But life has to go on or else what's the point? We have already lost the best part of a year to this virus. At some point other risks matter too.

You could also take the view, we’ve made sacrifices all year, why throw that away now and have done it in vain. When just a few months more could hopefully see us through.

I appreciate your view and know it comes from a point of frustration though. Hope you’re doing ok.

I suspect many people have realised that it's no coincidence that activities that result in a tax contribution are somehow 'covid secure' but directly comparable situations with no money changing hands are not? And with that in mind, perhapd it has become apparent to many that as thinking adults, fully informed on the risks, we are able to judge and evaluate them for ourselves in a far more accurate way than our so called leaders are able to do.

100% that.

Newnamme you’re right there. Covid secure does seem to mesh “this place needs to be open because rich people are losing money”

@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.

No, not 'no-one'

Lots of people will.

You won't.

@OnNaturesCourse

Is this UK wide, or just England?

All these rules are making it hard to keep up with, esp with Scotland etc all doing things slightly differently.

I'm in Scotland - what are the rules here? Because I am completely clueless now. To start with I followed it to the book, but its hard to keep up with what we should be doing anymore.

Just England. The BBC have a good summary: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51506729

It is crazy how different the guidance is- in Wales I could form an extended household with both my parents and their partners which would lovely. (They all get on well and would love to be able to spend time with their first grandchild)

@primabloodydonna good luck with your homeschooling plans. I could have written the same myself, will see what happens next year for us.