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Make COVID-19 policy more understandable / more friendly #6

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I've done a quick pass over the COVID-19 policy to remove any copy-pasting of law/NHS guidance (instead linking/referencing the actual guidance where it makes sense) and to remove a lot of the verbosity associated with "formal" policy. I think a lot of the corporate-style furniture really clouds the intent of the policy, which I think is counter to having a policy that's simple and easy to understand by members.

I've also made some changes to what should happen in Tier 3 / 4 based on my reading of the guidance supplied by government. I couldn't find anything in my reading of the guidance that suggests Hacklab is required by law to close under tier 4, or that only companies with a CNI excemption are permitted to remain open.

The bits I've rewritten, I've tried to approach it from the perspective that we should try and continue to facilitate member access to the space if they deem it necessary, but we should do this in a way which keeps members as safe as possible. This means providing the tools for members to use to communicate intent (booking system, etc) and expecting members to do the right thing.

I've also rewritten a bit of the enforcement section to highlight that it is not punitive, and instead is intended to keep the lab a safe space for all members.

Opinions? I expect this would need a few more changes before it were to get merged, and I'm sure I've missed a few things.

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tkerby commented Dec 28, 2020

Thanks for pulling this together. You'll see some discussion on the legal side on the mailing list but there is also lots of good general stuff for clarity here. What I've done for now is created a COVID-19 branch and manually merged in most of your changes there (excluding the legal stuff) with a PR into master. Github isn't the best at cherry picking a merge so this seemed like the best solution and we can review the other points seperately

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@tkerby spreading this dicussion all over the place makes it really hard to actually engage and get things done.

I'd really like to go over your(?) interpretation of the legal guidance with you at some point.

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tkerby commented Dec 28, 2020

@alfiepates That’s why we’ve been trying to keep things in the members list as much as possible.

Happy to go through the interpretation at some point. It’s not my interpretation - the same thoughts were reached by all the directors and I’ve also confirmed the key points with a lawyer. The best government interpretation of the SSI is the creative studios guidance and I’ve asked them for some more clarification on a few points.

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