Is this actually a good thing for anyone (anyone who is mobile, obvs)?
My mum is 88 and has copd and walks with a walking frame but she has been walking up her garden path and along the quiet row of bungalows on the estate where she lives for 10 minutes a day since lockdown started. She feels she doesn't want to seize up completely. She has also had chats with neighbours standing more than 2m away on her garden path.
I think this sounds fine and sensible? I am sure any joggers or walkers would give her a wide berth as they go past but they will be very few and far between where she lives.
Otoh, I have another relative who is 16 years younger than my mum but is also on the ultra shielded list due to organ transplant. But this person is physically so much fitter than my mum, she's more like 25 years younger. She is always on the go, very energetic, very fast moving. She literally has not set foot outside her front door since lockdown started, not even to do a 10 minute walk round the block. Again, she lives on a quiet estate with hardly any traffic.
What is the benefit to her of never going out at all? Is this actually what people are doing?
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ChicChicChicChiclana · 04/05/2020 19:13
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