Is Racing Allowed?

not · Originally posted by fab100

Originally posted by fab100

I'm trying to workout this morning how people queuing for 24 hours outside Primark (FFS) in the proximity of the same stranger for hours on end is not a 'gathering', but a load of boats tens or more of metres (apart from a couple of minutes for a start, but even then 2m apart) across an an hour or so is a gathering.The words in the law that matter are " to undertake any other activity with each other"   we may all be very capable of realising there is probably a far bigger risk in the queue from Primark than on the startline of a race.  But that doesn't make it legal.  So if I was daft enough to join the queue in Primark, while there are other people there, I am not there to shop with them.  If I join a start line with 7 boats on it, I can't reasonably claim that racing is not an activity, or that I'm not there to race with the other boats... can I?  That is the fundamental purpose of racing (the way we do it) is it not?

Originally posted by fab100

Extending the same logic, only 6 family groups  
 To be accurate it is 6 people unless they are all from the one household or one linked housed (aka a bubble).  You can't have 6 families.

Originally posted by fab100

are permitted to go for a walk around the Devil's Punchbowl or whatever, even though there's acres of it.
If they are there to undertake that activity as a collective group - say a charity walk - they are there to undertake the activity with each other.  If they have turned up and there are other people who happen to be there (just like the shop) and so if the others immediately left they would still continue their activity they weren't there to do the activity with others.

Originally posted by fab100

I refer to my previous post about the stupidity of hard and fast rules and sense of a principles based approach. This is not, thankfully, the USA, a country dominated by lawyers although some would like it to be, it seems. Be careful what you wish for.

So we all thought it was a bit crazy that we could meet 1 other person in the local park, but couldn't meet 1 other person in our own garden.  The reason given was simple - one is easy to police, the other isn't.  The same applies now.  The rules as they stand for gatherings of 6 people are not too difficult to police.  If you start to say "unless you are participating in a sport which can socially distance"    will you get cycling/running groups running major events and saying "keep 2m apart" and hoping for the best.

If you want to look for loopholes - you need a country dominated by lawyers.  If everyone just does their bit and waits till July when more stuff is likely to be permitted - you wouldn't need lawyers to defend you / find the loop holes.