Are we heading back to being at home all day again?

[lesbihonest]

I’ve just started getting hospital appointments again; GP appointment for the first time since February and due a haircut on Monday ... we also popped out to a cafe for first time two weeks ago and really enjoyed ourselves . Slowly travelling slightly further afield (ie no further than 30 miles) . Still haven’t seen any friends, and only three relatives ... we do live in an area with v low cases and feels quite safe ...

I can’t bear the thought of everything around us closing back down though for another four months as before - surely not? I really can’t manage another six months in the same three mile square with only one outdoor walk allowed each day . Desperately trying to find something on TV/media to reassure me that won’t be happening !

@OpenlyGayExOlympicFencer

Funnily enough non of those questioned want to show us the actual law about only once a day as it doesn't exist.

I think people just don't get it. Something that the PM or another senior politician said in an interview or when asked to give a personal view isn't the law. Pointing this out isn't telling anyone what they should or shouldn't do, and plenty of days I didn't even go out at all. It's just saying what the law is/was.

Although the police didn't help. I can completely see why someone who was told she was breaking the law by a policeman would believe it.

The hour for exercise was what Gove thought was reasonable, not any law. DH went out on long bike rides and ran marathons in the countryside, all within the law

The solution sadly, is for everyone to stop going round to each others houses and out to the pub and to wear a mask at all times out of the house.

Not fun but we know it works.

@notevenat20

The solution sadly, is for everyone to stop going round to each others houses and out to the pub and to wear a mask at all times out of the house.

Not fun but we know it works.

No we don’t know it works. Not the masks every time you step outside the front door.

Also not working in France

I'll be seeing my dad as I always have, lockdown or no lockdown. We're both happy to take the risk so the government can bring in all the restrictions they like, they've taken enough from me this year.

@notevenat20

The solution sadly, is for everyone to stop going round to each others houses and out to the pub and to wear a mask at all times out of the house.

Not fun but we know it works.

Fuck that!!!!!! No way will I be forced to wear a mask out in the open air!

Kittensarecute If you or your Dad are single then as you well know I am sure, you are allowed to form a support bubble. No need to flag up meeting your Dad as a mark of rebellion! Also if you or your Dad are vulnerable, you are allowed to provide care to the other.

@mum2jakie
Fuck that!!!!!! No way will I be forced to wear a mask out in the open air!

They start that bullshit they can arrest me I'll wear a mask indoors but not in the fucking park.

And they ca arrest and fine me all they want.

Fuck that!!!!!! No way will I be forced to wear a mask out in the open air!

I've begun to notice increasing numbers of people just not wearing them inside. Security guards have stopped asking. It feels that we are on the cusp of the total loss of goodwill and the government will need to be careful they don't accelerate that process with further measures.

I'm still "doing mask", but I'm not wearing it outside or (for fuck's sake) anytime I'm outside my own home. No.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

It was one walk per day did you lockdown on mars?

It was not one walk per day in England or Scotland. The law was that you were allowed out for exercise. People made up their own interpretations of the law.

@lesbihonest I can’t face another lockdown either.

I’m not wearing a mask outside either

No, me either. Love to see them police this.

For goodness sake the last few posters need to grow up. If my autistic five year old can wear a mask outside so can you all.
You would be first to complain if we return to another most likely stricter lockdown.

I can wear a mask. But I also expect to be told the point of it. We’ve had months now of being told it doesn’t spread just walking past people, so if that’s the case, where’s the justification for masks? If there is a valid justification for it, they can explain it. If there isn’t, I won’t be wearing a mask outside.

We’ve had months now of being told it doesn’t spread just walking past people, that’s never been said. What is true is that it’s less likely outdoors then indoors, and less likely if context is brief.
We are at a point where we should be taking no chances if it is something like a mask which is simple to use (unless medically exempt).

For goodness sake the last few posters need to grow up. If my autistic five year old can wear a mask outside so can you all.

Well whoppy do, if you want to wear a mask outside fine, I think it's unacceptable in every way and no point at all to it at all.

@AldiAisleofCrap

For goodness sake the last few posters need to grow up. If my autistic five year old can wear a mask outside so can you all. You would be first to complain if we return to another most likely stricter lockdown.

Wait, what?! Why would other people be doing something we’ve literally never been told or advised to do, on the basis that you’re making your kid do it?

I've begun to notice increasing numbers of people just not wearing them inside.

Me too. The amount of people with no mask on in the supermarket yesterday was surprising. No, I don't believe they were all exempt.

Yes we are heading for more serious measures. People are not heeding the rules. Look at that prat in Bolton who came home from holiday, didn't isolate and went out on a pub crawl infecting hundreds.

Wait, what?! Why would other people be doing something we’ve literally never been told or advised to do, on the basis that you’re making your kid do it? confused

Yes, this is another logic absent post from that person. Any case there might be for wearing a mask outside does not include somebody's 5 year old doing it, autistic or otherwise.

Boris and his cronies waffling on TV is not the law.

In England at least, it was never against the law to go out as many times as you liked, as long as you had 'reasonable excuse'.

I would often go for a 2-3 hour walk, locally, a separate walk to the shop for groceries and car trips to two different relatives who were shielding to walk their dogs or take them groceries, all on the same day and none of it was against the law. The actual law that is not the over zealous interpretation by certain Mumsnetters.

@Rosehip10

Sorry you've had so many tags informing you you are talking nonsense.

As many sensible posters have pointed out, in England at least, you were correct.

And certain police too, tbf. I give a bit more leeway on this issue than I usually do for people who got their legal qualifications from the University of Google, because there were multiple instances from multiple forces of the actual regulations being completely misinterpreted. People are entitled to assume the police are correctly applying laws.

For goodness sake the last few posters need to grow up. If my autistic five year old can wear a mask outside so can you all

Why the hell would you think that other people should have to wear masks outside just because you are making your kid do it?!