Is this breaking the law re 6 people

[FallenSkies]

Next to my DC nursery there is a play park. After pick up each lunchtime I take him there to have a picnic lunch and let him run around and play before his afternoon nap.
Quite a few other mums take their DC there for a quick play too, and inevitably the children end up playing together on the climbing frame etc, and us parents stand making polite conversation when not tending to the DC (all socially distanced though).
Is it now breaking the law as there are more than 6 of us at the park, even though it isn't an arranged meet up? Or am I over thinking this?

Good God, what had this country come to?

A pandemic hit nation where more than 60,000 have been killed by the virus so far this year despite massive efforts to save lives.

if all my local friends and their kids are there so be it, they all go to nursery and pre school

Just because they mix in nursery and pre-school doesn't mean that you should increase the number of unnecessary contacts that they have.
Otherwise it would be fine for teenagers to hang around in huge groups on the basis that they all mix at school.

@notevenat20

Good God, what had this country come to?

A pandemic hit nation where more than 60,000 have been killed by the virus so far this year despite massive efforts to save lives.

Around 42,000 deaths. Increasing the death rate by just under 50% to make a point isn't good.

Depends how many of you are stood around chatting? If more then 6 then yes it’s breaking the law. Just go, say hi to the others there but stay in small groups and you’ll be fine.

Around 42,000 deaths. Increasing the death rate by just under 50% to make a point isn't good.

That is wrong. You are talking about the deaths counted by one method. But a lot of people died who weren't counted in hospitals for examples. The easiest way to estimate the number is through "excess deaths". See for example fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-reports/mortality-surveillance/excess-mortality-in-england-latest.html .

The generally accepted figure is somewhere around 60,000 excess deaths.

if all my local friends and their kids are there so be it, they all go to nursery and pre school

This isn't right at all. First of all, the parents don't hang around all day together at the nursery.

The generally accepted figure is somewhere around 60,000 excess deaths

I suspect, when a proper analysis is done, that a significant % of those excess deaths will be dementia patients dying through lack of care, cancer patients dying whose treatment was cancelled/postponed, people having heart attacks who were too scared to go to hospital when symptoms started etc. All still as a result of Covid, but not directly caused by it.

I suspect, when a proper analysis is done, that a significant % of those excess deaths will be dementia patients dying through lack of care, cancer patients dying whose treatment was cancelled/postponed, people having heart attacks who were too scared to go to hospital when symptoms started etc. All still as a result of Covid, but not directly caused by it.

I think you are probably right but maybe not so much in the first couple of months of the lockdown. I do fear for the many non-covid patients who have had their appointments cancelled or delayed.

@notevenat20

I’m not hanging around with them, I clearly
Said I would keep to the 2m rule and it is outside.