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[cassa333]

I have been reading the media and social media chatter about lockdown and isolating etc.

There is the advice about non essential travel and the two meter distance advice.

There is the advice for leaving your home for essential work, visit hospital/doctors, carding for the vulnerable, supermarket and a daily exercise.

I get that and don’t have a problem with it for the most part but I do to the non essential travel ban. So what if people are taking time to go out for a walk in the countryside?

If everyone in my area was locked down and they all went out for a stroll in the area we would be knee deep in people. You would be hard pressed to not be in close proximity to other people. So why not go to a secluded country park or rambling walk along the by ways? You’ll see less than a fifth of the people you would walking round your street.

And not forgetting that for the most part we h7mans are social animals and lock us up for too long and we go dolally.

[pixie374]

The government site doesn't say that, zacs? Only the Mirror.

[Zacs-Master]

It’s not the driving necessarily, more the possibility that a few other people will have the same idea and you’ll end up not self distancing. The more times people have to visit the petrol station and touch pump handles the more strain it puts on the ‘system’. Common sense really.

[Zacs-Master]

Pixie, the govt site in section 14 reads:

We advise you to stay local and use open spaces near to your home where possible – do not travel unnecessarily.

[pixie374]

Advise... yes. I am doing that. But if a 5 min drive makes it easier to stay away from other people. Surely, that makes more sense?

[Zacs-Master]

There has to be one rule, pixie. I have several places I could drive to locally but I can see the risks in doing that, so I don’t. It’s for the greater good.

[pixie374]

It may be, but it won't work everywhere... if I just go out locally, there are loads of people around, and a lot of woods, so not much space to pass. Isn't it safer to try to keep a distance from others instead? My car is small, it won't need petrol for at least a couple of months now...
I'm not arguing with it, just clarifying...

[TheDevil]

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/health/coronavirus-covid19/2020/03/22/coronavirus-hundreds-head-to-snowdon-amid-socially-irresponsible-warning/

[pixie374]

Some people are just idiots, that isn't really what I'm asking though...

[douglas9401]

No coincidence that 'drive' and 'drivel' are so similar.

[pixie374]

Aren't you a van driver? :-)

[chelle7272]

The Mirror today says Police should not have been telling people not to drive to secluded places to walk. Guidance really does need to be clearer
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/police-sent-new-coronavirus-guidance-21784782

[Prudie]

It's the one thing I'd argue with despite how many people shout. I can get in my car and drive 2 miles down the road and walk in the countryside and meet no-one. If I walk outside my door the whole village is passing me by. I know someone who was told by the police at the weekend to stop riding her horse - on a wild heath with no people around. There was no risk to her of spreading or catching anything out there. The rules need to make sense as far as risk of covid is concerned.

[pixie374]

Same here, prudie... guidelines make sense- if they make sense. But surely, we should be more trying to avoid others instead?

[cassa333]

Then take a trip to your local supermarket.

It is impossible to stay two meters away from other people.