Dh just got back from a run, someone had shouted at him, he;d shouted back...oh dear, not good...anyway yes it is causing problems where they find it hard to distance e.g. on cycle tracks I think...
The local ministry seem to be sticking up for people around here I notice
"Rev. Stuart Campbell said he saw a police officer on a bike lecturing and moving on people who were sitting on benches, or the grass, with nobody within "50 yards" of them in Victoria Park this weekend (April 4-5).
Rev. Campbell claimed this included one upset 80-year-old man with a walking stick.
He said the rules laid out by the government do not mandate anyone found outdoors to be in constant motion and said it was not right to "obsessively harangue" people like this"
"Contrary to what the officer was telling people, the emergency legislation does NOT mandate that anyone found outdoors must be in
constant motion.
"Any form of exercise encompasses rest breaks, of the sort the elderly gentleman visibly needed."
Rev. Campbell added: "Fresh air and sunshine (which provides vital Vitamin D after the winter) are both effective ways of boosting the immune system, and so long as people are staying 2m apart from each other it is idiotically counter-productive to hound law-abiding citizens out of the park - which is, remember, legally open.
"This lockdown is going to be in place for some time to come, and we're all going to have to try to stay sane.
"If we obsessively harangue people who've sat down for a little while - safely distant from others - to enjoy the sunshine and reduce the anxiety and tension of being cooped up all day, it will make everything worse, not better.
"I really hope someone takes the officer aside and tells him to wind his neck in and deploy some common sense and humanity.
"Because otherwise we're all going to end up so stressed and fractious that the consequences will be grim."
www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/coronavirus-lockdown-police-bath-park-4028599
I noticed the police had buggered off a bit