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This question came up in a group chat recently regarding the 5-person gathering limit, Ontario specific. People in the group chat were looking to hangout at a park, however there is a 5 person limit:

- Physical distancing by-law stats that all people must keep two meters of distance between themselves and people they don't live with while in public.

- All residents are prohibited from gathering in groups of more than five (with the exception of families who live together)

So say you have a group of 5 people, from 3 different households. Couple, Couple, Single. These 3 groups are 2m apart from each other at a park. This conforms.

Now, another group of 5 people (they do not know the people from the first group), again from 3 different households. Couple, Couple, Single. These 3 groups are also 2m apart from each other. However, one person from this group is 2m apart from someone in the first group of 5. This technically conforms.

Now if you add another person to one of the groups of 5 people, sitting 2m away from the nearest person from that group. This now makes it a gathering of 6 people, which is now over the limit of 5. So now technically not allowed?

How does that differ from having someone 2m from you that is apart of a different group?