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Well situation is currently that none of us have been out of the farm for the last 10 days, and the aim is to keep it that way, assuming we can continue to get food delivered or rely on the freezer, so would only consider it if that continued to be true.
Sam_w-
That's good if you can maintain that, but who knows what will happen in the future. Local shopkeepers become infected and shop closes, etc. I suppose you could then choose to start stricter isolation at the point where any of you have to mix more.
We're in a kind of similar situation as we're in a house that's converted into 3 flats. We're keeping our distance from the occupants of the other two flats but downstairs have two kids who are about the same age as my daughter, plus they have a new puppy. It's driving both sets of kids a bit nuts that they can't play together but we're sticking to it, especially as the adults downstairs seem to be less strict about their social distancing.
Greenbank
Also depends on where/when each of you mix outside of the properties.
For example if you, in a couple of weeks, went to Shop/Supermarket A and bought some things.
Then, a bit later, if one of your in-laws went to Shop B.
A bit later someone from the third property went to Shop C.
Without the mixing there would be no connection (via your family at least) from Shop A to shop B or shop C but by mixing families you now increase the exposure/mixing risk for everyone else. People who also shopped in Shop C who never went to Shop A now have a possible connection (however small).
By keeping separate you help minimise this risk.