Exercising once a day?

Once a day exercise..Simply to minimise the risk to yourself and others. Its a blanket rule that should be followed in my opinion.. Live in rural area ? See no one on walks? Yes the risk is very low I would have thought but still a risk non the less.Live in a town or city like many of us do? Dodge people on pavements not wearing masks and leaving space? The risks are higher I would have thought. Travel restrictions to out of local area prevents us accessing open countryside. So we all just have to do whatever we can to reduce this virus together,united,selflessly and stop these silly Nimby attitudes.

Putting aside Miss Chatelines amount of exercise for one moment (which has been well commented on) , do people really need to ‘go out for supples’ every day ??
You cannot do this and NOT come into contact with someone else !
With good planning you can shop for several days if not a week .
This gives me the impression of someone pushing the boundaries . I may be wrong ?.

Dog owning folk are known to be the most balanced and sane in this pandemic

Have they done a MH survey and found this to be a fact?

Now I realise what my problem is, we no longer have a dog and I live up a small mountain and am not allowed to drive a mile to get exercise in the fresh air.

My knees won't allow me to "stride" across hill and dale all day long, my knapsack on my back.

Not everyone is as fortunate as you, MissChateline.

Sorry but I’m not staying “cosy “ at home if I can get out in the fresh air to exercise.

This isn't about You Miss Chatelaine. It's people like you who think they're more important than everyone else who have put us in this situation. How about thinking of someone other than yourself for a change. Or is that beyond you?

I live on the outskirts of a large city and all my hitherto quiet dog walking areas are now packed with people of all ages. Some make an effort to socially distance but many do not. Some, usually with children, crowd around me to stroke my dogs. I no longer feel safe when dog walking but the nearest moors, etc are 15 miles away and driving there would be irresponsible. I think that the rules are aimed at people like me to keep us in our local areas so that we don't spread this dreadful virus. I now take the dogs out at 8am for an hour and again just before dark.

Such selfishness!
So sad, I’m going to be despised for being smug but here goes.
Because here in Guernsey pretty much the whole of the population did as they were bid in the first lockdown we are now the only place in the British Isles to come and go as we please.
Few covid cases, all contained. A medical officer of health who should show the UK the way.
Fines up £10,000 that have been applied!
It’s worth a google.
Just respect during what is after all a world pandemic!!

Miss Charline, I get mad at people breaking the rules, but in your case you are alone and I doubt very much that you will see or even mix with others on the Moors
Enjoy it
We all just need to use common sense

Everyone on here seems able to justify breaking the rules. Are people incapable of sticking to what we have been told ? I would have thought that grans net followers would have conformed but over and over again we see that they don’t. What is worse is that every one of the flaunters can justify breaking the rules. I expect some or perhaps most of them would be critical of others for going out more than once a day. It is double standards and the reason why we have such a Covid problem, people just can’t stick to what they have been told.

Henry, Growstuff, Froglady...hear hear!!! Thank you for expressing what most of us are thinking and feeling. I’m gobsmacked that some people think the rules don’t apply to them. Absolutely unbelievable!

Su66

Seems as though MissChateline just wants our approval otherwise why post this. Most of us are abiding by the “rules”. March on the spot for exercise, use your imagination. Have lovely days everyone staying safe and cosy at home ?

Or just stir up the thread!

EllanVannin

The biggest problems are that foreign nationals are still flying into the country----are they all isolating for 2 weeks before mixing with the public ? I bet they're not !!

All flights should have stopped. What's going on ? Oz closed its borders, why didn't we ?

Recently my son flew in from Italy, my best friend from Abu Dhabi and another from Canada. They all had to quarantine and were all checked up in by test and trace.
Although, Italy were testing everyone at the airport - results back in 30 mins - and my friend had to wear a tag the size of a paperback on return to AD plus was tested every five days for two weeks.
We really should be testing everyone on arrival.

Seems as though MissChateline just wants our approval otherwise why post this. Most of us are abiding by the “rules”. March on the spot for exercise, use your imagination. Have lovely days everyone staying safe and cosy at home ?

There’s no problem with it. As has been said they’re essential trips....just use common sense and don’t go driving off across the country to ‘exercise the dogs’.

I can see the logic in what MissC is saying - but I think perhaps it’s the rather ‘entitled’ attitude that is grating. We all have different physical and mental wants and needs, but we are in a fairly catastrophic global pandemic. Pity the poor city flat dwellers with no outside space

A person who goes out several times, meets hardly a soul and keeps well away from others in the open air is posing far less risk than someone popping indoors into a shop, a pharmacy and a garden centre.

I seem to recall that this 'once a day' issue came up in the first lockdown and was poo-poohed into submission.

I do feel the one hour a day thing came from an off the cuff suggestion by Michael Gove when asked. I saw it.

I am careful. However I walk, on my own, from home, for as long as I want. I can’t sit in the flat all day getting fat.

Dare I say there is a bit of competitive “careful “ behaviour on GN? Who is the most careful ? Who sanitises and cleans the most ? Kind of reminds me MIL used to talk of competitive laundry days, who was first to get their washing pegged out on a Monday ! (A great compliment when talking about Mrs Macsomebodydownthestreet “she does a lovely wash “)

Move to Scotland - we're allowed out to exercise as much as we like.

I do think Wales has it right with this, keeping people away from each other by not allowing them to drive to beauty spots where they may congregate, but allowing them to exercise as much as they want whilst walking from home seems sensible to me as it balances mental and physical health needs with keeping people safe. Most parts of Wales aren’t densely populated, so it’s possible to walk to green space - I know we are lucky in that respect.

Please be kind. Yes you are fortunate if you are able to walk on totally isolated moors and no problem there then in discreetly going more than once. But there are many poor souls who cannot step outside their home without the risk of meeting other people and thereby increasing the risk of infection. Yes they need the exercise for their mental health but it is a risk.

I think we should just use common sense.I sometimes want to go to the shop in the morning and go for a walk later on,or go for a walk twice a day,can't see anything wrong in that,we're told to exercise

What is a foreign national? Is that the same as a foreigner?

Just ignore the rules
Everybody else does and that’s why we are in this mess

This seems a bit of a pointless conversation.
Dog walkers are going to carry on doing what they already do and what they want to do because they have a DOG after all.
So be honest- you don't see the need to change your routine.

We already have people advertising "free dog" walking on our local WhatsApp group and they have openly said its so they don't have to stay at home the bulk of the day.

Agree with you 100% Miss Chateline. Wish I lived in a picturesque area. North London isn’t quite the same ?