Rule Of 6

[eve1974]

We want to have some friends from diff houses come for lunch.

Home 1: 2 adults

Home 2: 1 adult

Home 3: 1 adult

Home 4 : 2 adults (my husb and I) who will host the lunch.

So it’s 6 adults from 4 homes. Is this allowed?

We are in tier 1

[sherrardk]

I’m just stirring the pot - I’m all for everyone just getting on with everything. If you’re vulnerable, sort yourself out, I’ve run out of patience with it all now.

[bobbinwales]

A can see that arguement sherrak but if you have to care for a vunerable person or come into contact with someone who does you after take some responsibility off course, you cant just leave it to them to sort thereself out by checking your safe (have followed the guidance & rules)

[THECORBYLOON]

CHRIS, the relevant legislation is now SI 2020/1103, The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Medium) (England) Regulations 2020 as that is the SI dealing with Tier 1.

That SI also revoked Regulation 5 in the SI you quoted, relating to the limit of six folk.

The limit is six still as Schedule 1of SI 2020/1103 states,

"Participation in gatherings

1.—(1) No person may participate in a gathering in the Tier 1 area which consists of more than six people.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply if any of the exceptions set out in paragraph 3 apply.

(3) This paragraph does not permit a person to participate in a gathering in the Tier 1 area in contravention of—
(a)paragraph 1(2) or 2(2) of Schedule 1 to the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (High) (England) Regulations 2020, or

(b)paragraph 1(2) or 2(2) of Schedule 1 to the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Very High) (England) Regulations 2020."

With all the amendments, it must be a full-time job keeping up-to-date and ensuring all the interested parties are kept informed.

[bobbinwales]

Good post thecorbynloon. Thanks. A think your right, even your England goverment ministers ca'nt keep up with it like Robert Jenick yesterday. And off course its different rules in Wales. And scotland & Northen Ireland to.
Off to work now will look in later. Keep safe.

[iluvmargie]

The very last thing I'd do is come on here and ask! If I wanted to host a lunch, I'd just host it! Too much hysteria and too much scaremongering.

[New Judge]

//If I wanted to host a lunch, I'd just host it!//

Quite so, ilm.

Senior police officers are on record as saying their officers will not enforce much of the Covid legislation. One of the reasons is that even some of the Chief Constables do not know what the rules are, with one on record as not knowing that "Tier 2" households could not mix indoors. Manchester has now seen five sets of regulations in seven months; the T3 details are being varied by local authorities; the entire business is a complete mess with more than half of England's population suffering so-called "local" regulations. These were intended (we were told) to counter isolated hot spots. In fact they have been used to provide widespread restrictions in areas where infections and hospitalisations are as rare as hens' teeth.

I am in a T2 area and I'm currently deciding, along with my relatives with whom we meet up each year a little before Christmas, what we are going to do. The consensus at present seems to be "sod the regulations". We're having our usual overnighter on the coast, we're going out for a drink and dinner and that's that.

[Vagus]

I agree south sherr and iluvmargeriedaw, either just do it, or follow the rules to the letter.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Just go out for a meal you will be ok :-)

Its a load of rubbish -you can go eat a meal with your friends, in the company of maybe 20 others in the room -maybe more - but you can't host a lunch in your own home.

[bobbinwales]

Would you all sit the required distance apart though in small groups Aunt P in your house with peopel sat back to back etc and would you have got covid safe systems , one way systems, regular cleaning, be visted by safety inspecters. Would you enforce no mingling, no huging between households. No, off course not.
Maybe youd be happyer if the restraunts were shut to and jobs lost?

[bobbinwales]

Am just saying its a silly comparison imo and a dont get why peopel say it

[AuntPollyGrey]

bobbinwales //Maybe youd be happyer if the restraunts were shut to and jobs lost?//

I don't know where you get that from, I never even suggested that. I'm just pointing out that you can meet your six friends in a pub but not at home.

You seriously need a spell checker on your PC some of your posts are almost incomprehensible.

[New Judge]

//Would you all sit the required distance apart though in small groups Aunt P in your house with peopel sat back to back etc and would you have got covid safe systems , one way systems, regular cleaning, be visted by safety inspecters. Would you enforce no mingling, no huging between households. No, off course not.//

You certainly wouldn’t enforce all of that. But you might practise it if anyone in the household was particularly vulnerable and they wanted you to. You wouldn’t need one way systems because people are naturally considerate when passing others inside (as they usually are when in shops and elsewhere). Good hygiene should be a given at all times not just when there is a pandemic.

You seem to be of the impression that nobody can take reasonable precautions without being told to do so under threat of fines. Incredible as it may seem, that’s just what the human race has been doing since it realised the risks that various problems present to it. Those who want to socialise within their homes will do so. The police have no intention of knocking on people’s doors to find out who is inside so as far as private homes go it’s a voluntary system anyway. Quite why it has to be backed up with the threat of fines is anybody’s guess. And before you mention it, I’m not taking about student houses where scores of people turn up. It is beyond my understanding why I can go to a pub, a restaurant or a bar and be on the same premises as dozens of strangers but I can’t invite two friends into my house for a coffee. Your reasoning suggests that pubs and restaurants can be trusted to “keep me safe” from those dozens but I cannot be trusted to do the same with two friends. Absolute nonsense.