Much as I don't like the idea, I don't think we should be meeting in multiple groups of 6 - in the same venue at least.
However we conduct ourselves, it will look like we are gathering in illegal numbers which could create issues for the venue - not to mention us.
These rules seem like a fairly sensible way of dealing with the issues that have arisen around gatherings where the problem seems to be that people have ignored the guidance and taken the criminal threshold (ie 30) as the maximum and probably stretched that in many cases. By reducing the criminal threshold to 6, the message becomes clearer.
This is something we can work with and it will help venues as people start to come inside as the weather turns.
6 people probably isn't far off our average number during the winter months. If we look like exceeding it, we can form splinter groups as the need arises.
I would still prefer to have the opportunity to ride out and meet up with up to 5 people than sit at home on a Zoom call.
Who knows what this means for Epiphany etc but we will have to see what the winter brings. Sadly/happily, most of us qualify for free flu jabs (Tomsk and GS probably qualify for 2
) so we may not see our junior squad for a few months.
