Please Explain Logic Of New "Rules"

[diddlydo]

As I understand it:
1. I can go to a park and sit on a bench or sunbathe with any number of strangers around me as long as they are 2 metres distant.
2. I can meet up with my son (different household) in same park and stay 2 m distant
3. My husband(same household as me) can't meet up with son in 2 above because son is then meeting up with 2 people from a different household.
4. Son and daughter in law can't meet up with both of us as they're both meeting 2 people from different household.
5. While I accept the fact that it's safer to meet outside, why can't the meeting be in a private garden with 2m distancing?
Is the law/rule an ass or what?

[pixie374]

I think...
you can meet other people, as long as you don't see them...
Go to work, as long as you don't...
Go outside, as long as you stay at home....
And keep away from others, except when you can't.

Hope that helps :-)

[diddlydo]

That just about sums up the confusion in Boris's message Pixie!

[pixie374]

Ah well :-) lol. I'm not that easily confused.... we'll manage x

[brainiac]

'The vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison
The flagon with the dragon has the brew which is true'

'The vessel with the dragon has the flagon with the pellet.....'

[brainiac]

.....in case you were wondering:

[jno]

don't forget the chalice from the palace. Not that I want to confuse anyone.

[Smowball]

It’s absolute madness!! Absolutely impossible to stay away from people in supermarkets. Yet adults are told to keep social distancing yet he’s sending kids back to school!!

[sanmac]

To continue with the merriment, imagine air-raid instructions in WW2:
In the case of an air-raid, got to your personal Andersen shelter.
If you don't have an Andersen shelter, go to your nearest air-raid shelter.
If you don't have a near-by shelter, go to the nearest tube-station.
If you don't have a close tube-station, go back home and shelter in the basement.
If you don't have a basement, hide under a table.
If you don't have a table, crawl under a rug.
If you don't have a rug, pop down to Ikea and buy an Andersen shelter kit.

[DJHawkes]

It’s crazy, I’m working tomorrow. I am fully expecting to yet again spend every few minutes reminding the dingbat suicide jockeys to get in line two metres apart and stop being selfish ( well in my head I say that, I’ve not said it out loud, well, not louder than a mutter)

[gness]

Well this must be a first! Diddly and I singing from the same hymn sheet.
Still, it’s given us cause for some great banter with our friends and family in the UK. :-)

[jim360]

Careful, Pixie, you might be accused of being an anti-British lefty :P

[jno]

you still in a shop, dotty?

[gness]

Reading Diddly's post again made me think....if you fancy a new national anthem to see you through this the Hokey Cokey would would do.... ;-)

[10ClarionSt]

The vessel with the pestle etc is surely a directive from Boris the Black Knight from Monty Pythons Holy Grail: he never gives up, whatever the cost!

[fiction-factory]

Were you on this pic, 10CS? (I recall you mentioning Ardwick in the past)
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/anger-53-people-spotted-playing-18235842

[dannyk13]

Diddly //5. While I accept the fact that it's safer to meet outside, why can't the meeting be in a private garden with 2m distancing//
It can, where do you get the idea that it can't?
There is only one ass here.

[fiction-factory]

private gardens sound reasonable for meeting up until you think about what might happen in practice- makes you a coffee, brings piece of cake, use their toilet, touching their chairs.
But use common sense. The police are not going to intervene if two people are chatting in a garden 2m apart but if half a dozen people are gathered round a barbecue you might get questions and you are certainly increasing your risk.

[naomi24]

I wouldn’t have thought it takes much to work out that limiting meetings to two people is designed to prevent larger groups gathering …. but perhaps it does. Must try harder, diddly et al.

[Arrods]

I think the mantra from the start should have been ‘Use your common sense’. Sadly, there’s not much of it about.

[dannyk13]

FAO Diddly:- Scroll down to visiting family and friends:-

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/uk-lockdown-end-boris-johnson-ease-social-distancing-pubs-picnics-sunbathing-a9503921.html