The basic concept of 'reducing human contacts outside of the household' means that people who are not happy nuclear families are _completely ignored_ by the leg

The basic concept of 'reducing human contacts outside of the household' means that people who are not happy nuclear families are _completely ignored_ by the legislation. A husband, wife and children living together are surrounded by social contacts at all times. In the UK, a single person is told that they can select one other person and visit them. All of their support structures - office chat, therapy, meet ups, the pub, dating, everything else - completely gone and replaced with staring at four walls. The regulations completely ignore my living situation. In practice it would mean that once a week I end up seeing a friend and the rest of the week I'm totally isolated. Whether they were explicitly designed to hurt people like me, or whether I just 'fall through the cracks', is mostly irrelevant. I'm just not doing it because it doesn't work. As I posted above, I tried it and became mentally ill. It's not a 'hardship' like say, running low on money and having to try to find a job, it's an active legislative attack on my wellbeing and basically all of the escape hatches have been closed. If building regulations in my area required walls to be built out of jelly, I'd still build them with bricks. It's safer, regardless of what some bureaucrat says.