Were you following the rule of six before?

[Nellodee]

I am hoping that the new restrictions are effective. From my perspective, I can’t see them changing much as I have only on one occasion been indoors socially with seven people since this started.
How much of a change will it mean to you? Were you previously meeting in a group of eight? Will you continue to meet in groups that very slightly bend the law?
I’m trying to gauge roughly how much difference this new rule will make.

I was meeting in groups lager than 6 (meeting family indoor and out) and will continue to do tbh.

Mostly. When we’ve met friends with large families there were more than six but only two households at a time.

No, but we have 2 small children as do my friends, so even meeting up with one other household means exceeding the rule of 6. Meeting up with my parents means we won't but meeting up with virtually anyone our age as a family unit means we will.

Will you continue to meet in groups that very slightly bend the law?

No.

We’ve not had more than six people as the guidelines before mentioned six plus you need 2m in between households.

Common sense says the more people the bigger the risk so we wouldn’t be having or attending large gatherings anyway.

I think they need to push SD more, many seem to think it’s disappeared and they don’t have to do it anymore. It applies to children to in England.

@PurpleDaisies will you continue to meet with those households, even if it slightly breaks the new regulations?

Sorry purple daisies, cross posted there.

Pretty much, a couple of times been 8 or 9 outside.

I think we’re unusual though, most people seemed to believe the guideline was 30.

No because two household of any size were allowed to meet before, there is a lot of people on Mumsnet who are “shocked” people didn’t know the rule of six applied before failing to notice that it didn’t 😂!

The only people we've met up with (as a family of 4) are another family of four, and a sort-of family of 3 (complicated child contact situation... DN sees us and her GPs, but not her father).

We will probably do the same again. Or sit into smaller groups so it's 'allowed'.

I spend more time in the queue for school pick ups.

I kept the the guidelines, so either two households inside, or up to six from multiple households outside, and will keep to the ‘rule of six’. Have already pissed off a group of friends who want to gather as a 9 inside next week by saying no but there you go.

Yes and most people I know were also doing it. But it was clear people were getting together in large groups and that there is reckless Intergenerational mixing.

I remember a news report about the air bridge to Spain being removed. The report interviewed a family at the airport. Intergenerational group from Blackburn determined to have their holiday. Blackburn was a hot spot by then. I knew then the cases were going to rise and people would die prematurely and unnecessarily.

I support the reopening but people need to be considerate and sensible. Or rules need to set and enforced.

We have only met in groups of 5 and will continue to do so.

It frustrates me that people are bending the rules to suit themselves. But we have vulnerable family members.

I still believe that the rule breakers are minority.

So far, it seems like it will have a small effect - but all these little changes probably do add up and keep the growth rate suppressed.

Nope. The most we have met is 9, which included 3 kids (so us and 3 couples) for a playground date. After that it's mainly DHs family, total 6 adults, 2 kids. We will continue to see them every 2 weeks or so. I am not about to have a party, but as selfish as it is, we are going to keep seeing DHs immediate family (mine live abroad).

We were meeting with one other household at a time - we are a family of 3, so often meeting as a group of 7, with another family of 4. The adults practised SDing, the teens/children less so but with increased hygiene, etc.

That (7 from 2 households) felt safer than than the idea that we can meet up with 5 from 5 households,

We will work around it - so maybe book 2 tables for a meal - have an adults table, then 2m away a teens table.

I have been meeting in bigger groups with family but if I'm seeing friends it's only been one or two at a time

We will be strict again. Over the summer we had two country walks with friends (once with 7 and once with 11). We also met in a garden with 13. Our area was very low in cases then.

I haven't gone anywhere with 30 adults (or children, but I would be ok with children tbh), whether I was sat at the same table or a metre apart. I follow my own guidelines not the government's, and that has never seemed a sensible idea.

I don't think I've been with 5 other people (except work) since before lockdown. If everyone had been a bit more sensible we wouldn't have reached this point. We stopped going to several places where we saw groups of people together.

The only people I have met up with is my dm and my d in-laws saw dSil twice .
We have been in local lockdown for weeks anyway so not supposed to mix household but of course we have met up with above .
Even before our local lockdown I thought it was 6 people rule anyway indoors so I'm a bit bemused by the uproar that they can only meet 6 people.

Well before it was 6 or 2 households. So as a family of 4, with most of our friends being families of 4 or 5, this will change what we can do socially quite significantly.

I’m really disappointed the 2 households rule didn’t remain as surely meeting one other household is lower risk than people from 6 different households mixing.

I've regularly met up with more than 6 outdoors, but then I have quite a few friends with big families, so meeting one or two friends at the park meant over 6 once all the dcs where counted. (If the kids have run off to play in the park and the adults are sat more than 2m away, do we count as 2 groups outdoors?!)

I've just typed ive not had 6 in the house, but realised I had a friends 2 dcs over last weekend when she had an appointment, then she came in for a brew when she came to pick them up, so with dh as well (who was working upstairs) there were 7. Both her dcs are in my dcs class at school, so in my head, they shouldn't count as they are together all day at school, but obviously would.

Also realised dc1 now walks home from school with classmates as I have to pick dc2 at a different time. The kids are in the same class all day at school and walk out together to come home, there's 8 who live in our direction and walk together. Should we tell the school to send them out in 2 groups of 4?! Seems pointless but don't want them to get in trouble half way home.

No and no