Outdoor exercise ban?

ooo posh gillybob your own protection team, just like royalty

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Don't you think it makes sense really though, Chewbacca? I mean, imagine a sneeze. I'm no scientist, but I can easily visualise the droplets of a sneeze travelling further than 2 metres.

I had a boy at school who thought it was hilarious to cough and sneeze, knowing I was trying to be very careful. I made him sit at the back of the room and wouldn't check his work.

The WHO now says everyone should be wearing masks.

www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3078437/mask-or-not-mask-who-makes-u-turn-while-us?fbclid=IwAR3Q7Jqmm_ws16pks4sBIC9NzBkb3Z7SnRL2vqCxcz0H02fEhMfjlCEBu4w

Thanks for that Gagajo; I'll have a look at that now. Bit unnerving if we've been too close to each other all this time.

I have a neighbour with 4 dogs,they used to be walked together morning and evening, I notice now that they are being walked separately so they are in and out all day. I do not like the attitude of "what I can get away with". As I have said on other threads, what if we all did that.

Chewbacca, neither of these reports are the one that I originally read, but I've closed the tab on my laptop and can't remember where I saw it. Here are two others though.

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/03/30/coronavirus-social-distancing-mit-researcher-lydia-bourouiba-27-feet/5091526002/

www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/03/825639323/scientists-probe-how-coronavirus-might-travel-through-the-air

The reports on the 6 metres comes from tests carried out in lab conditions - I haven’t read the paper or seen anything more about it but on the face of it it’s a bit concerning www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/science-environment-52126735

In answer to the OP, if that’s what it takes to finally get the message through to that minority then so be it. My understanding is that in other countries theses measures are already in place and there’s been no sign of mass unrest.

6 metres Gagajo? Where did you read that please? I thought that the 2 metre rule had been universally accepted?

nothing will stop me from going out on my necessary cycle rides. Hardly anyone else on these narrow roads, only me and the occasional tractor

Local police posted a photo of cars parked along road by Virginia Water, pointed out all the extra risks they were taking and giving to others. Threatened fines if they were there today. Sadly I bet people still will do that. Such an entitled attitude ?

The issue that no-one is addressing, least of all the government, is the problems faced in cities with a very high population numbers invery small spaces, many of whom live in cramped flats and even, houses with no outside space.

It is dead easy for me to exercise outside while keeping my social distance. I live in a village. Even my two AC, living, one in a town and one in a 'historic' city live in houses with gardens with green areas near at hand. They, their neighbours and friends have no difficulty obeying the rules, but in inner cities, that just isn't so andclosing parks will only exacerbate the problem.

Given the academic attainments of government members and their advisors, surely it isn't beyond their ability to think up a system that enables those living in cramped flats in irban areas to get out and walk around while still obeying the proximity rules.

Banning all exercise for a couple of weeks might bring it home to those too thick to understand what is going on. They might think that they are invincible, but their families probably aren't.

There was a street interview with a couple a few days ago and they claimed to know nothing about social distancing etc because they don't watch the news and other programmes. Somehow we have to get the message home to such people.

Joelsnan, I’ve been reading recent reports saying that it’s far more contagious than everyone thought, and that it can travel airborne much further, up to and possibly beyond 6 meters. Which makes a mockery of social distancing. And hence the huge spread of infection.

I think we should imagine that there is an armed gunman wandering around picking off folk in their hundreds. I really wonder where all of the people succumbing to it are picking it up. Could it be more airborne than we are aware because despite the two week incubation period and some degree of social distancing, cases are currently rising. I know eventually it will peak. But, as with the gunman analogy, just because he is in hiding doesnt mean he is not there, so would you go outside if it was a gunman and wait to be shot?

Baggs I'm shocked by those tube train reports too. No wonder the big cities everywhere in the world have higher incidence of the virus.
It's the balance between avoiding the virus and keeping the economy going.

Meanwhile I've also seen reports of people going to work crammed into tube train carriages because trains have been made shorter (as well as there being fewer running).

PS i'm answering the OP, not the rest of the thread, which I haven't read.

If people are keeping to the two metre distancing advice, what's the problem? Either that works or it doesn't and if it doesn't work what's the point of it being in the advice at all?

I think that so long as people who sit in parks keep to the two metre advice they're not doing anything wrong.

I think there are too many snitchers and that some police are reading more into their "powers" than the CV Act gives them.