Government floats bonkers idea of loosening lockdown in groups of ten people

[bimble]

The state of this. How would the very first step work where everyone somehow becomes a member of a group of ten or less who get up meet up? Imagining the WhatsApp groups that could be born of this rumour (shall we add them to our list of the only ducking people we can see for the year or not etc).
If this is a real idea it’s got to be to do with getting businesses back open hasn’t it.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

It doesn’t matter what they plan or intend. The lockdown is crumbling and will come to an end fairly soon regardless of any government intervention in a sort of slightly apologetic collective harrumph.

And people will give get sick and die and other people will shrug and go on about their normal lives, while other people will be furious and scared and try to do what we can to avoid getting sick.

 

[editor]

Imagine if you're always the 11th person and never get invited to any of these 10-strong parties

 

[SheilaNaGig]

 

[Chilli.s]

This is so those posh fucks can get on with socialising as they're not going to be forced to go back to work.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Is this going to be like when we were kids, taking turns picking sides for a football team?
I want Orang Utan and Marty1 on my team.

 

[The39thStep]

Is this going to be like when were kids, taking turns picking sides for a football team?
I want Orang Utan and Marty1 on my team.

If you are last to pick you'll also have Reno

 

[The39thStep]

It would be good on films , Marty1 could talk about John Wayne in the midst of a discussion on Wenders and German New Cinema

 

[magneze]

It's all very meta today isn't it.

 

[Sue]

If you are last to pick you'll also have Reno

I'd be delighted to talk films with him .

 

[FridgeMagnet]

No actual evidence of this being real so far.

 

[magneze]

My family appear to be taking it seriously and making plans already

 

[bmd]

lol

 

[Thora]

My family appear to be taking it seriously and making plans already

Me and my mum & sister had this discussion today too

 

[Epona]

Imagine if you're always the 11th person and never get invited to any of these 10-strong parties

Oh god it will be even worse than always being picked last for team sports in PE lessons when I was a kid

 

[fishfinger]

Oh god it will be even worse than always being picked last for team sports in PE lessons when I was a kid

Solidarity like.

 

[Epona]

Surely it's completely unworkable anyway, I can't work out how it would actually work - must be more about small businesses saying "you're one of my 10 or P45 in the post..."

Lockdown is effectively over here, no social distancing in shops, loads of people out and about, so they do need to come up with something soon.

 

[The39thStep]

I'd be delighted to talk films with him .

It wasnt meant that way, So would I, and you as well.

 

[Red Cat]

My neighbours are already doing this. Every day this week their parents have been round, today there was a couple I've not seen before, and the brother. And now the neighbours have gone up the road to the parents for a bbq.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Can we be part of more than one team? I think I'm going to draw up a Venn diagram. I'll start with me and Reno in the middle, and work from there.

 

[two sheds]

You'd have 10 people one day and then another 10 people the next day unless groups were marked with indelible ink or branded or something.

 

[The39thStep]

You'd have 10 people one day and then another 10 people the next day unless groups were marked with indelible ink or branded or something.

Barcodes are the way foward

 

[Saul Goodman]

You'd have 10 people one day and then another 10 people the next day unless groups were marked with indelible ink or branded or something.

I was thinking coloured bracelets but I like the idea of branding. It's much harder to circumvent.

 

[kebabking]

It's a serious idea, the thinking being that it would massively relieve some of the biggest problems of lockdown - the mental health ones - while having relatively little impact on transmission rates.

An example group might be two 'nuclear' families with young children, and a couple of grandparents. They would be treated, and would treat themselves, as one household, and would have no more contact with people outside that larger household than they do now.

 

[William of Walworth]

I'm probably missing something obvious , , but I can't work out the source of the (iffy-looking??) story in the OP

 

[weltweit]

bimble where did gov float this idea because I have watched a lot of news today and I didn't see it?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I'm probably missing something obvious , , but I can't work out the source of the (iffy-looking??) story in the OP

It's an imaginary story from the Mail. Well, they may well have talked to somebody who talked about it.

 

[chilango]

The moment they force people back to work - which will be any day now - the lockdown is done for.

 

[chilango]

They're softening people up for it already. Pointing the finger at the teachers "sitting at home doing nothing on full pay" . Schools and/or workplaces will be open again soon.

 

[Saul Goodman]

I'm probably missing something obvious , , but I can't work out the source of the (iffy-looking??) story in the OP