Coronavirus Lockdown Chat

[MikeSh]

As of today it is (supposedly) illegal for someone from another household to enter your house.

It's an odd one. I saw some instructions yesterday about how to handle toilet use by visitors in your garden - because there's a limit on most people's capacity and they aren't going to be peeing out there presumably.
I haven't dug any further as it doesn't matter to us yet, but it sounds like there may be 'reasonable exceptions', AKA Cummings clauses.

 

[trog]

It's an odd one. I saw some instructions yesterday about how to handle toilet use by visitors in your garden - because there's a limit on most people's capacity and they aren't going to be peeing out there presumably.
I haven't dug any further as it doesn't matter to us yet, but it sounds like there may be 'reasonable exceptions', AKA Cummings clauses.

I suggest you dig deeper, much deeper or you may find that planting your spring bulbs is a far dirtier experience that usual.

 

[MikeSh]

planting your spring bulbs

Have you been extreme self-isolating? That time is long gone

 

[prpr]

how to handle toilet use by visitors in your garden...
...it sounds like there may be 'reasonable exceptions', AKA Cummings clauses.

Surely Goings clauses?
The other thing may be related to Trev's doggies.

 

[Black Hole]

I shall certainly use it as an excuse to tell anyone who wants to enter the house to go away.

I do that anyway, no need for an excuse!

 

[trog]

Have you been extreme self-isolating? That time is long gone

Crazy as it may seem with all that is going on in the world these days but I would like to think that you will be around still for next Spring.

 

[EEPhil]

I do that anyway, no need for an excuse!

So do I. But with rented accomodation you are supposed to let certain people in, with due notice. Now I (may) have a legal excuse to tell the marjority of them to p off.

 

[Black Hole]

Here's the reason face masks are not a go-to solution: false sense of security. This idiot chose to rely on the automatic systems rather than hit the brakes:

 

[Trev]

So the driver actually saw the truck but chose not to brake himself. He deserved ti be banned as he is obviously a real and present danger to other road users. (including overturned trucks it seems)

 

[peterworks]

I despair...

 

[EEPhil]

I'm missing something. I can't see the link between face masks and a Tesla automatic system. Unless the driver was wearing a mask incorrectly over his eyes and having a sleep.

 

[Black Hole]

I can't see the link between face masks and a Tesla automatic system.

False sense of security.

 

[Trev]

As in Teslas don't work neither do face masks?

 

[trog]

I'm missing something. I can't see the link between face masks and a Tesla automatic system. Unless the driver was wearing a mask incorrectly over his eyes and having a sleep.

Some people pronounce mask as musk

 

[Black Hole]

As in Teslas don't work neither do face masks?

As in "I'm wearing a face mask so I don't need to take any other measures".

 

[EEPhil]

As in "I'm wearing a face mask so I don't need to take any other measures".

See them all the time in Morrisons. As predicted in a paper to/from SAGE.

 

[Black Hole]

The government haven't done themselves any favours with the wording of the latest update to 2020/350 (amended 1/6/2020):

Restrictions on gatherings

7.—(1) During the emergency period, unless paragraph (2) applies, no person may participate in a gathering which takes place in a public or private place—

(a)outdoors, and consists of more than six persons, or​

(b)indoors, and consists of two or more persons.​

(2) This paragraph applies where—

(a)all the persons in the gathering are members of the same household;​

(b)the person is attending a funeral...​

Why not say "(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply where—"? Much clearer.

 

[EEPhil]

Paragraph (2) has a missing part: (g) The person is invoking the Dominic Cummings' defence. Might as well include it in the SI, because almost everybody will use it.
The whole document is confusing with all the [bracketed parts].

 

[prpr]

The whole document is confusing with all the [bracketed parts].

That's how lawyers make their money.

 

[Trev]

To paraphrase 7(b) "No person person may participate in a gathering which takes place in a public or private place indoors, and consists of two or more persons."

Just how the hell can you have a gathering of fewer that two people?
Jeez, they really are something else