Meeting one person new rule does that include kids?

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So with the new lockdown rules from Thursday it says you can meet one other person who is from another household outdoors, does that mean I can meet with my DS another person with her DS? 🤦🏻‍♀️

@dongdingdong and @Sitt This was my first (and last time) reading a coronavirus thread. I shall know to steer clear next time, too anxiety inducing! But just wanted to say your exchange upthread restored my faith in humanity.

Children under school age do not count when meeting a single person from another household in an outdoor space as listed in the document below.

I wonder where all the “is your child a person?” rude posters are now?

I was one of them. OP I wholeheartedly apologise!

@Dongdingdong that’s very good of you to apologise (and personally I couldn’t care less if OP takes ten babies to the park) but the guidelines have actually been amended, exceptions weren’t included in the initial guidance (presumably because most Cabinet members have nannies who take their babies to the park so they can’t imagine it would be a problem for anyone).

What a great thread.

OP asks a reasonable question.

Lots of Covid-lovers pile in to say that a pre-schooler is a person too, and PEOPLE WILL DIE if two mums of pre-schoolers meet up.

Nadine Dorries says it's ok.

The Covid-lovers say it's ok.

In fact, applying a very tiny bit of common sense would have given them the answer that Nadine Dorries then provided. But no: it's not enough to work that out for yourself. You have to wait for the Big Authority to tell you that something is ok when it's patently ok anyway.

As for @StaffAssociationRepresentative's posts: these #mad #hashtags are a salutary reminder that you have no idea what oddball person might be behind a keyboard on any public forum.

It's weird, the way that the internet confers equal validity on any opinion, however loopy.