Outdoor exercise ban?

What a novel idea, punish the whole population for the transgressions of a minority. Or maybe punish the transgressors instead? Round them up, chuck them in the cells for at least one night and see how many come back for a second turn. I do notice nobody supporting the confinement of all is saying they live in a two room flat with children etc. If we're to be confined then presumably there will be no dog walks either.

Daisymae perhaps he means using the adult exercise equipment in many parks, where people can be in close contact or touch the same bars etc. The virus could remain on the equipment even if only one person used it at a time.

I can't think that a lone person doing their Tai Chi in a park next to their home could cause a problem, unless, of course, they attract a crowd.

Why cannot people living near beauty spots exercise on their them? They are only using their local green space.

I walked on the beach this evening . There were very few people about but there was a helicopter going up and down. I think it might’ve followed me from my house.

You've been spotted gilly
Watch your step

Actually, we always had helicopters going over here, it is a relief at the moment as there are very few.
They're all up near you, spying on people walking on the beach.

I probably have calli I hope they followed me back home like some kind of protection squad .

ooo posh gillybob your own protection team, just like royalty

Well I didn’t like to say ....you know ...that I’m special .

I was half expecting to be shot down if I’m being honest !

Not much use ‘threatening’ fines. Just hand them out, no question. Soon focus peoples minds.

Also Matt Hancock said that ‘stay at home’ was not a request, it was an instruction. Perhaps it’s time to make it an ‘order’.

How do you fine 3000 people in one park though? I don’t think we’re at that stage yet but I can see that parks across cities will be closed where possible, but whether that will work or not is anyone’s guess - I read an news article over the weekend that the police had taped off picnic benches in a park somewhere and people had simply taken the tape down and were sitting eating at them. There’s a minority out there who simply will not be told.

I don't know where this 3,000 figure came from and its accuracy. Where they there all at the same time or was it over a number of hours; was it a police estimate, council numbers?

I've had a search for social media pictures of Brockwell Park on that day and can honestly see no evidence of excessive crowds.

It was on the BBC news - the park had to close apparently www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-52172035?client=safari

In Italy and Spain where all outdoor exercise is banned, far more people live in small apartments that here in the UK, and they seem to cope.

I have a friend in Bacelona with three boys aged 2,4 and 5 who live in a 7th floor appartment with no blacony! Now that is tough!

Sadly we can`t train the stupid and ignorant to be realilistic.

Yes craftyone same here, its lovely being able to cycle with so few cars on the road.

teacheranne I don't know why you think more people in Italy live in small apartments compared to here. Have you ever been to London? Glasgow etc? loads of families in small apartments. Plus all outdoor exercise is not banned. My relative lives in the worst hit area of Lombardy and the rules have been tightened up in the last couple of days, but they are allowed out for a walk 200m from home.

Well it may sound extreme but as fines don't seem to work maybe the threat of incarceration until this is all over may have the desired effect.

I’m pretty sure it was fake news but I did read on the Internet a little while ago that the city in Russia had released 500 Lions into the city,pretty sure that would keep people indoors!!!

So the idiots that have ignored the restrictions will spoil it for everybody else?!

Nobody is going to borrow my dogs.

Froglady sadly it is always a case of the minority spoiling things for the majority.
What concerns me most about a possible ban on outdoor exercise is the bigger picture. Families trapped with one another for 24 hours a day mostly - think of the rise in wife/husband battering & child cruelty, not to mention a hike in the suicide rates among those living alone. Then, when all this is over, the NHS will be called on to deal with those suffering from obesity and its related problems. As another poster remarked, those were the words of a desperate man, I really don't think the idea has been thought through properly.

We do exercise dvds indoors if it’s cold, or in the garden on a portable player if it’s warm .... you do not have to go out for miles to keep fit. The question I ask myself is “do I want to risk my life”, and the answer is no I don’t, so that influences every choice I make.

Its against the law now to let dogs out in public without leads on.what if the dog attacked ? Irrisponsible owners !