Is this acceptable during ‘lockdown’?

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I lost a close family member a little over a month ago. He is buried about 11 miles away in a quiet little church in the middle of nowhere. There’s never anyone there apart from services, weddings etc. I would like to visit his grave and put fresh flowers on.. I would visit at around 8-9am in the morning. I feel terrible that I haven’t managed to get up there for a couple weeks.

I’m aware we are told 15 minutes exercise a day.

Obviously we are isolating and not socialising with people but would it be acceptable to visit? It’s a 20 minute drive on rural roads . We’d literally just drive there, visit and come back. There’s never anyone there. It’s a church in the middle of nowhere with only a small hamlet up the road...

If we got there and there was people there we would come back another time..

@LittleRootie....I'm not talking about petrol rationing - the OP tried to justify her non essential journey by saying she already had fuel i.e. she didn't need to go to a petrol station, use the pump etc. My point was by using fuel unnecessarily, it means she will need to fill up sooner hence have to journey to the petrol station at a later date. It still stands that this is an unnecessary journey. Currently I am focussing my energies taking blood samples and cannulating sick patients for IV infusions and medications having been called back into clinical nursing practice from my education post. We've already had 8 deaths in our hospital and the number of positive cases is now really ramping up. Maybe people could use their exercise hour to check out the Excel centre in London which is currently being converted to hold up to 4000 patients - they could have a walk round and stretch their legs.

I think it would be better to think of a way to feel closer to your relative from home OP find a way to honour him there by doing something nice. It's not an appropriate bending of rules that are in place to keep peoples lived ones from becoming seriously ill. If people start making exceptions others will also justify it. Sorry for your loss

Not to be morbid but the grave isn't going anywhere. Just wait.

I wish some people could grasp that Boris’s 4 reasons are not targets!! It’s blindingly obvious that EVERYTIME you go out of your own house your risk goes up. That’s the risk of you getting it, or you passing it on.

It’s your choice. But you have to accept the increased risk, and the fact that going out is more risky than staying in. It isn’t ‘safe’ to be out anywhere. My job involves attending those who have this infection, I have no PPE. I have young kids. I know I will get this virus, I expect I will give it to them. I’m no hero, I’m petrified. I want to resign. I might have too to save my children. But it’s probably too late now. The fact that there are still large swathes of people dithering over whether they SHOULD go out, makes me want to scream.

As difficult as it maybe, I'm sure the loved one you lost , wouldn't wish you to take any risk no matter how minimal.