university student dd wants to have a meal with her friends before x mas

[Skipsurvey]

i am not sure if this is a good idea
all in the hometown after time in the rest of the uk, meeting in one of the houses for their X mas.

Presumably your DD is an adult? In that case you cannot control who she does or doesn’t meet.

@Ginogineli

She can for fo in pub bar with we garden garden with upto 6 and not same household in tier 2. It’s allowed

Restrictions are to indoor

Most restaurants near me now putting gqxwebka up to manage this

What's ridiculous about this is some of the gazebos I have seen seem to have fixed sides and no ventilation. The gazebo is outside the pub but once you're in it, you're inside. Bonkers.

@CatchingWind

Even a gazebo outside with a flap in the roof open is far better than being inside- it’s not about sides or lack of.

Lack of ventilation is a really huge contributor to transmission. I don’t know why more hasn’t been done to improve it in indoor settings. We could keep more businesses open.

@Skipsurvey

i am not sure if this is a good idea all in the hometown after time in the rest of the uk, meeting in one of the houses for their X mas.

Well, it's illegal to have house parties.

So surely the answer to this is no...

I don't see that it "sucks to be young" more than to be any other age group.

Universities and school have been prioritised by the government. University students could have been told to stay home this year, but weren't. There has been a huge amount of rule-breaking on campuses in terms of socialising that universities have turned a blind eye to.

I'd say that it sucks more for the people whose businesses are now collapsing, and for the young people who aren't students who are losing jobs, because the universities caused infection rates all over the country to spike. The university I work in is in a semi-rural area which is now in Tier 3 despite low levels of COVID before September. The number of local people claiming Universal Credit has doubled since the spring. They're the people that it really sucks for.

@StarryFire

Presumably your DD is an adult? In that case you cannot control who she does or doesn’t meet.

OP can't control who she meets, but she can say I don't want you coming back to the house and spending Xmas day with granny after meeting all those people.

There’s nothing preventing them meeting up. As pointed out they need to accept there are limited options like everyone else. Find a pub or restaurant with outside eating.

Of course treat her as an adult. But that means setting an expectation of adult behaviour. That means being willing to compromise on what she wants and being responsible for her family members and her community.

'I’d be suggesting she does one or the other - friends get-together, or family Christmas, but not both. It’s that kind of fuckwitted behaviour that will see hospital admissions and deaths rise in the new year'.

Exactly. Glad the op said no but it is so disappointing that so many people think they can just do as they please. It's no wonder the Government have to treat people like children and give exact instructions.

We haven’t seen my in laws and my children their only living grandparents since last Christmas because my MIL is clinically vulnerable. We aren’t getting together this year: its just not worth the risk. I know two people who lost a significant person during lockdown and could not be joined by family to support them in their bereavement due to the travel restrictions. So many people have made really difficult sacrifices this year. The thought that a group of disparate students returning to their hometown are even considering having a get-together whilst planning to spend Christmas with their families really, really pisses me off.