You can't visit your family but you can sell houses

I've just put mine up for sale. My mum and dad are coming round for a viewing tomorrow.

 

I tend not to hug and kiss my estate agent or spend more time near them than necessary, less face to face talking, not socialising.

It makes sense to me.

 

Money talks yet again but needs must I guess. If I was thinking of either buying or selling I wouldn’t feel very comfortable right now.

 

Shame when you are not allowed to be there, you could have had a 2 metre chat.

 

The homeowner has to leave the house before the viewer comes round? Sounds dangerous

 

Only if it's your family.

 

The rule about being among strangers but not family sounds ludicrous. I was
listening to a so called expert on tropical diseases today. He reckons the rule
about family is because there's the risk of breaching the two metre rule and
hugging and embracing.

 

If your home is being viewed, open all windows and doors prior to the viewing taking place and leave the property for the duration of the viewing.

 

Yet there is no actual science regarding this ‘two metre rule’..

 

That's advice not rules. The agent is told to maintain a 2 metre distance when accompanying the viewing.

I'm selling my home myself ergo I'm the agent.

 

Is the 2 metre rule for airborne reasons? I assumed that it was because 2 metres keeps you out of arms reach and avoids physical contact

 

It’s all ********, bit like the “5 a day” rubbish too.

its an arbitrary figure they thought we’d go for. Particles expelled from the body in a sneeze for instance can travel much further

 

In Germany it's 1.5m and they don't seem to be doing too bad. It's as if they've just guessed a distance and stuck with it.....but that would never happen with our government ...would it ?

 

Correct. It’s a number plucked from thin air by the civil service.

As per Shenk, Germany is 1.5m. Sweden is 1m as per WHO guidelines.

 

They can travel much further, but the number of particles that do travel further is only a very small, decreasing proportion, so if you stay 2 metres apart the chance of transmission is significantly reduced, compared to say 1 metre.

Obviously it depends on whether you’re inside, outside and the level of ventilation, but to say there’s no science behind it just isn’t correct.

 

I’ve seen so many posts like this over the last few days, mainly on Twitter, which make no sense.

By allowing somebody into your home to do a job (be it estate agent, cleaner, plumber etc), you're helping to keep another household financially viable.

By inviting your mum and dad over for a cup of tea and a chin wag, you're not.

Pretty obvious why the rules allow one but not the other.

 

So spreading the virus is fine cos its work. At least we know.

 

There's also the likelihood of it becoming a regular occurrence whereas any contact with strangers will usually be a one-off.

 

Make your sacrifice to mammon!

 

There is with strangers if you're swingers