AIBU to say PLEASE PARENTS don't let your children get close to people they don't know.

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This is a really heartfelt plea. Yesterday out for walk on local path (ex railway so about 3 metres or more wide. Ahead was a father with three little girls enjoying the sunshine, looking at things etc. Then they ran ahead where two people were coming towards them, and the girls literally brushed passed them through a small gap though they could have given them a much wider berth. Children are unaware, but are likely to be unwitting carriers of the virus. Please parents, make sure that your children maintain distance to protect other people. The virus can apparently be transmitted on clothes as well as through the air, so letting them push through past people is a no-no.

If this has already been covered, apologies - I have been out of the country (in a higher risk country where restrictions are a lot more rigorous than here).

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3856979-Family-groups-out-walking

My problem is more can people stop coming up to talk to my toddlers. I have a four year old and two year old and currently pregnant. I have had loads of older people come up to us and ask if the children want to stroke their dog or asking questions. In normal times it would be very sweet. And I do feel for them as most of them are older and probably quite lonely with all the isolation going on. It's not always the children!

Yes please! I was in the antenatal clinic this week and despite signs up everywhere saying do not bring children to appointments a couple came in with a 2-3yr old child who was running around going up to everyone whilst her parents beamed. When I moved away from the child her Dad glared at me. I’m pregnant and fall into two other high risk categories. No thank you.

Quite reasonable!

People need to keep their kids away from other people generally - kids don't have any understanding of personal space and can't walk in a straight line.

But it is not transmitted on clothes (unless someone coughs all over them or coughs all over their hands and then touches your clothes and then you touch your clothes and touch your face) or through the air (unless again someone coughs all over you).

Dogs should be short leads too so that people can walk in a straight line away from other people and are not having to detour to avoid falling over dogs.

Another case of people not listening with their I'm alright Jack attitude.

Totally agree with you. I had to go to the supermarket the other day and two couples had brought toddlers with them. Surely one of the could have stayed at home. How do you stop a 2 year old from sneezing or coughing over someone.

This is why we are keeping our toddlers at home. Dh is doing the shopping as he drives, we would normally all go together ( I know that is another mumsnet pet peeve), the kids and I are at home. Kids simply do not understand social distancing measures and even 6 or 7 year olds forget when excited.

The chances of it being transmitted in those circumstances is very low. It doesn't live long on fabric, even if it was on there in the first place (also fairly unlikely). People going out in public accept that low risk (from whichever source).

People are getting hysterical about this. It is not that deadly (even when healthcare systems are overwhelmed), and not that contagious. The only issue is that lots of people will get ill at once, but still the vast majority of them will be fine and not even need hospital treatment.

One brush past is not going to kill a dozen people or whatever you are imagining.

Plus most people complaining about this are massive hypocrites and don't care a fig for the effects of their actions/lifestyle on others usually (cf climate change).

I hardly doubt anyone is going to stop doing something because someone randomer on Mumsnet told them to when they don’t bother listening to the government/prime minister/health experts or anyone who actually knows what they are talking about.

People are selfish. Around here nobody is self isolating and it pisses me off as a key worker who is forced to work everyday that our safety is compromised because people that can isolate won’t.

I hardly doubt anyone is going to stop doing something because someone randomer on Mumsnet told them to when they don’t bother listening to the government/prime minister/health experts or anyone who actually knows what they are talking about.

But the current government is that it’s okay to go for walks with the members of your household (unless something new has been announced today) as long as you don’t mingle with others. So that’s what people are doing, but of course anyone who lives anywhere densely populated is going to pass other people along the way!

Undoubtedly there are people intentionally flouting advice and socialising with people outside their own households, but parents taking their children out for fresh air and exercise and not intentionally mixing aren’t disregarding the government or experts as it stands.

DD and I went out for a walk yesterday. Really quiet wide road so 2m distancing was easy. On two occasions we had runners running up right behind us and overtaking us really close before we saw them or had a chance to move away. I think there are lots of people who just don't seem to get it sadly.

As someone who needs to run for mental health, I try my hardest to stay 2m from people. It is hard however despite me being an asthmatic wheezing runner. I have often noticed people are walking in groups and are not keeping their awareness up on where others are.

There is a problem that they also let their small people and their dogs walk across the path, often to the other side of the path where someone avoiding you and yours needs to go. so that makes it impossible to maintain that distance.

To be honest, if we all kept our awareness up it would be easier. But this applies even in normal times. I often come across it on a wide path groups who don’t check where they are and end up running others off the path.