Have I got this right?
Oct. 13th, 2020 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustI'm still trying to get my head around the latest batch of coronavirus restrictions. As far as I could tell from yesterday's six o' clock news, as of tomorrow the north-east of England will be subject to tier 2 regulations. This means we will not be permitted to meet friends from other households ondoors - as is already the case. But we will be permitted to meet in each other's gardens, which is currently not allowed. Can this be right?
Yes, according to the Mcite>Guardian, in some areas the new rules will be more relaxed than previously.
Unless they aren't, as there is also scope for local regulations. Ah. That kind of simplification. As Sellar and Yeatman's indisoensable history book explains, it's all in Magna Charter: "That everything should be of the same weight and measure throughout the Realm - (except the Common People)."
Whether or not the council decides not to implement this restriction (and indeed, what "the council" means when the entire north-east region is treated as a single unit), I won't be rushing to sit in my friends' gardens any time soon. Not just because it is a rainy October in rhe north of England (though that is a consideration) but because this is a university area, where rates of infection are many times above the local level (anddurham_rambler's analysis of the local figures suggests that Durham's rates are even higher than those quoted in that article.
Will our student neighbours be equally cautious, or will they go back to mingling households in their back gardens? Who knows? To be fair, they have been comparatively quiet this term. But when my diary reminds me that Thursday is Farmers' Market day - well, with regret, I'm more than ready for an excursion but I don't think I'll be going into the city.
Yes, according to the Mcite>Guardian, in some areas the new rules will be more relaxed than previously.
Unless they aren't, as there is also scope for local regulations. Ah. That kind of simplification. As Sellar and Yeatman's indisoensable history book explains, it's all in Magna Charter: "That everything should be of the same weight and measure throughout the Realm - (except the Common People)."
Whether or not the council decides not to implement this restriction (and indeed, what "the council" means when the entire north-east region is treated as a single unit), I won't be rushing to sit in my friends' gardens any time soon. Not just because it is a rainy October in rhe north of England (though that is a consideration) but because this is a university area, where rates of infection are many times above the local level (and
durham_rambler's analysis of the local figures suggests that Durham's rates are even higher than those quoted in that article.Will our student neighbours be equally cautious, or will they go back to mingling households in their back gardens? Who knows? To be fair, they have been comparatively quiet this term. But when my diary reminds me that Thursday is Farmers' Market day - well, with regret, I'm more than ready for an excursion but I don't think I'll be going into the city.
