Staying local

justworriedabit

Mickey666 said:

shinytop said:

I've got a simple four word rule for staying local that 95% of people should undestand. It is  "Don't take the pi$$"
The other 5% need everything spelled out in minute detail and it's probably not worth the effort in the scale of things.

Thank goodness you're not involved in writing the statute books.  Imagine being hauled in front of a judge after being charged with 'taking the pi$$'.

You need to understand that simple rules don't work in complex situations.

Made me chuckle, thanks.

od244051

Davesnave said:

od244051 said:

silvercar said:

MovingForwards said:

Gosh your new alias hasn't changed from the last one.

Government say:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home

"You should minimise the time you spend outside your home, and you should not travel outside your local area."

Guidance that ends in less than 4 days!

Just hope people don’t drive to the bloody beaches. The places can’t cope with thousands queuing for takeaways, toilets and parking.

   Last summer Cornwall was rammed. My daughter returned from there saying social distancing was often non-existent, especially in shops, where owners keen to recoup money lost earlier in the season did not enforce customer limits.

All sorts of dire predictions were made then about a Cornwall spike, which didn't happen.

Tourists would have had got CV from each other. So any positive cases were recorded under the tourists’ home areas, not Cornwall or their councils 

Sea_Shell

So folks, how are you all interpreting the following guidelines...from .GOV (my bold)

Travel

The ‘stay at home’ rule will end on 29 March but many restrictions will remain in place. People should continue to work from home where they can and minimise the number of journeys they make where possible, avoiding travel at the busiest times and routes. Travel abroad will continue to be prohibited, other than for a small number of permitted reasons. Holidays abroad will not be allowed, given it will remain important to manage the risk of imported variants and protect the vaccination programme. The government has launched a new taskforce to review global travel which will report on 12 April.

elsien

Clear as mud. As is often the case. 

And although technically I can work from home and make video/phone calls to clients, I can’t work as effectively that way. My organisation (and I agree with them) have changed their expectations from work from home as much as possible to visits in person as much as possible. 

Davesnave

od244051 said:

Davesnave said:

od244051 said:

silvercar said:

MovingForwards said:

Gosh your new alias hasn't changed from the last one.

Government say:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home

"You should minimise the time you spend outside your home, and you should not travel outside your local area."

Guidance that ends in less than 4 days!

Just hope people don’t drive to the bloody beaches. The places can’t cope with thousands queuing for takeaways, toilets and parking.

   Last summer Cornwall was rammed. My daughter returned from there saying social distancing was often non-existent, especially in shops, where owners keen to recoup money lost earlier in the season did not enforce customer limits.

All sorts of dire predictions were made then about a Cornwall spike, which didn't happen.

Tourists would have had got CV from each other. So any positive cases were recorded under the tourists’ home areas, not Cornwall or their councils 

Yes, that's possible, but it would still have affected the locals who run the shops, hotels and other facilities, and it didn't.

Sapindus

It is always salted with "where possible", isn't it.  If they brought in strict rules to decide what "local" means there would always be people who bring up perfectly reasonable cases where the rules made no sense, and others who bent them as far as they could and did irresponsible things saying "it's within the rules!"  You can justify almost anything as essential with "it's essential to my wellbeing" whether that's a trip to the mountains, a library book, a hug from mum or a manicure.  I can say I've done everything I believe I could to avoid spreading it, but we've gone 100 miles a couple of times to see my mum after my dad died.  Your support bubble should be local wherever possible - well I could possibly have found a bereaved mother closer, I suppose, so that's my transgression.  I won't go and see my ex-in-laws ten minutes down the road because they've been in their definition of a "bubble" with half the student population of Leicester...

epm-84

Sea_Shell said:

avoiding travel at the busiest times and routes. 

I don't know about all train operators but Northern Trains only seem to be providing 40% of the usual weekday service on my local train line.  It's not that easy to avoid the busiest services if there's only one pre-9am service and that's rammed with school children.  It's one thing expecting employers to allow those who can't work from home to adjust their start time from 9am to 9.30am to avoid travelling on the busiest train, it's another thing to expect them to allow them to change a 9am start time to 11am.

MACKEM99

So we all avoid the so called busiest times and ALL travel at the so called quieter times - which then become the busiest times?

Sea_Shell

MACKEM99 said:

So we all avoid the so called busiest times and ALL travel at the so called quieter times - which then become the busiest times?

Yep, you think you've had a brilliant and unique idea....only to find everyone else thought to do the same!!!!

How many times do we hear...."Oh, I didn't think it would be this busy"

justworriedabit

Go during the week much quieter. We are off to the park now for a walk.