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23 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
One of the sad and largely untold stories of the year-long lockdown is it has been illegal for many people who don’t live together to meet indoors, meaning many in relationships haven’t been able to meet. @susie_alegre makes good points in this article cityam.com/squeamish-mini…
This has in my view been a huge oversight by the govt which has responded to calls from, for example, people with babies under one who are lonely to be able to form a linked household. It would have been simple to allow people in established relationship to form linked households
Follow this campaign
There is probably truth in this point that the “sex ban“ has something to do with the squeamishness of ministers. But I also think it has something to do with the failure of representative democracy to properly scrutinise the lockdown rules over the past year
More detail about the “sex ban“ which has been unique in Europe as far as I am aware

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23 Feb
Just reading this absolutely fascinating Lords debate on the 2008 amendment to the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 which inserted the part which has allowed for the Covid-19 regulations to be issued hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2008-05-…
Lord Howe saw it coming
And
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23 Feb
Vaccine passports (to access venues, jobs etc) are another difficult, almost paradoxical, COVID issue from a rights perspective. Can both interfere with (privacy, discrimination) and enable access to (gatherings, family, 'open society') rights. Not straightforward.
I pointed out a similar rights paradox (I realise that's not really the right word) about lockdown. If we had locked down earlier and more strictly, we may still have had 175 days of it (see previous tweets) but less disease and deaths. unherd.com/2021/02/the-da…
But 'current pain for future gain' is itself a slippery slope as a justification for policies, so needs to be carefully considered.

I heard an interesting podcast about how privacy concerns may have led to a missed opportunity for use of real time data with contact tracing apps
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18 Feb
Oh my goodness. I'm not sure where to start.

This is the Home Office, the government department responsible for law and order.

This tweet and video grossly misstate the law.

All gatherings are *not* illegal. There are a huge number gatherings which *are* legal...
Meeting up is not "against the law"

Some gatherings are prohibited but if you read the law itself there are many exceptions including where reasonably necessary for:
- Work
- Volunteering
- Accessing social services
- Assisting vulnerable people
- Suport groups
- Avoiding harm..
In case the Home Office has lost the link to the law, here it is legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1374…
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12 Feb
The hotel quarantine regulations have just arrived, coming into force 4am on Monday 15 Feb

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel)
(England) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 2021

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/150/…

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/150/…

Let's dive in...
First up is the new requirement to book tests on days 2 and 8 after arriving in the UK. The helpful explanatory memorandum is the third image.
Note that these are amendments to another regulation (legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/568/…) so very difficult to follow. As per usual. Inexcusable that these have been published *zero* working days before they come into force and will not be scrutinised by Parliament at all before they do
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12 Feb
It’s Valentine’s Day this Sunday. In this thread I show that private meetings and sex between consenting adults who don’t live together has mostly been illegal in England for almost a year... 💔
... if you are in Leicester indoor meetings for dating/sex between people who don’t live together it has been illegal since 26 March 2020. In Manchester, it’s almost the entire time since 26 March.
I think that’s in this respect England has had the strictest regime in Europe and possibly the world. As I understand it, European states tend to allow meetings between two people who do not live together for any reason indoors.
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11 Feb
How odd - the woman at Crosby beach was not, in fact, given a Fixed Penalty Notice because the "on reflection" it was not proceeded with. Unclear when that decision was made though. I assume the "conversations on social media" is referring to my conversation with the force...
This was the exchange
"the fixed penalty notice has now been issued"

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