I think this could be considered a controversial topic. On one side, I really like to play boardgames with my friends. On the other side I feel it’s my duty to not move around to much, meet up with a lot of people and/or hang around in small rooms.
That’s why I spent the first 3 months of our Dutch intelligent lockdown mainly at home. Working from home, entertaining myself from home. Luckily I can do ~99% of my work from home and luckily both me and my wife don’t mind that much on staying home some more.
However, the itch came more and more and when the Dutch government started loosening the lockdown, I carefully started seeing some friends for 1 on 1 games, sometimes with 3.
Some baselines we laid according to our Dutch guidelines:
- No handshakes and such; we just wave.
- About 1,5m distancesometimes; hard with a boardgames so we try to not give eachother pieces of the board and sit across the table on a safe distance
- and, obviously, nobody has a cold / is sick
- We, decided ourselves not to wear masks during these games. If we couldn’t keep a proper distance, I would probably have brought one along.
With this method, we were able to do some safe boardgames:
Unfortunately, the ship blew up, so we weren’t able to do aftermath 🙁
It was so nice to do some more boardgames after such a time. Hopefully we can do some more soon. I just want to emphasize: don’t be an idiot. There is no reason to potentially kill another person just because you can handle the cold. Another might not be so fortunate. If your government says it’s not safe to meet up, then they will probably have a reason to conclude that.
Stay safe!
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