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Same dilemma here - I've effectively isolated for the last 6 months, outside of a bi-weekly supermarket trip and the postman occasionally dropping a parcel I've had almost zero interactions: intuitively I am surely low risk and ok to host my parents as planned.
Though that's not the letter of the law, and invariably is why we are heading back into stricter measures: everyone thinks they are being as safe as necessary (irrespective of whether they are)
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Very true. My sister works for the Scottish Government and the talk around there is that it’s not solely big groups of idiots that are responsible for imposing local lockdowns - they are the most annoying and visible - but “sensible” folk just straying beyond what’s “tolerated” as they are generally acting right up to the limits of govt advice. A lot of our neighbours are just carrying on as usual, but then we live in Leith which has a lot of, ahem, characters. My steroid-munching dickhead neighbour who has been selling cars on the street for the last 7 months is just one example of not giving a fuck. No masks, sitting in the car with the “customers” whilst they hand over bundles of cash, all transactions completed with a handshake.
i_am_lono
Yeah, it's frustrating. We have a two week half term for some reason. We've taken the kids off school today, and the plan is currently to isolate till next Tuesday, which is about 13 days, then head up to the grandparents in the Midlands for the rest of that week.
They are basically voluntary shielding due to heart conditions / general old age, so isolation before we see them has been standard through this whole period. We're the only people that have been in their house since March. Everyone else has stayed in the garden on the other side of a hose laid on the lawn...
Now it looks like our plans may be scuppered, but I'm trying to find out if the tier system is actually a legal thing - will it be illegal for us to visit them, or just against the guidance.
I know we're doing that thing we've agreed is wrong - if you're trying to see if you're allowed to do something, you probably shouldn't, but its frustrating because we know we will be taking all possible steps to make it safe - steps we were going to/and have taken even when it wasn't required.
They are lonely and desperate for some company / to have the grandkids around and my partner will be absolutely gutted if we can't go. With Christmas also massively up in the air, this could be a real blow for everyone's mental health right now.
Perhaps we can claim we are bubbling with them...a short term bubble, with our own two week circuit break policy....it's hardly a drive to Barnard Castle to check your eyes.