'Stay local to exercise' is rubbish

[ThePants999]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52062209

Taking public transport to start your exercise is obviously counterproductive.

Driving to somewhere where loads of other people are also going to exercise is not exactly ideal.

Driving to somewhere in the middle of nowhere to go for a walk? Not only is that perfectly safe, I'm going to assert that it's BETTER than walking from your house, especially if you live in a built-up area.

AIBU? And if I'm being U - why? How am I endangering anyone by going out to the countryside by car instead of walking round my town?

I agree

Yanbu, but no doubt you'll get shouted down soon.

The more cars on the road the more accidents there will be, the more break downs there will be, the more often you need to top up with petrol.

In theory it's great. But in reality everyone would go to the same lovely places and see more people so the potential for it to spread more is higher

Because you might have an accident and use NHS resource that is already overstretched. Also for the reason that using your car means that you'll need to fill up with petrol at some point and the virus is said to be spread by petrol station.

I agree with you. But at the same time, if everyone did it it wouldn't work like that..

All I want to do is go to the river 15 mins drive from my house, where I never see anyone, but haven't yet but probably will in the coming weeks if I can...

If you have a car accident you will have to get out and be at risk along with the driver of the other vehicle.

If your car breaks down you will have to phone a breakdown company putting yourself and the mechanic at risk.

Not an essential journey.

Honestly don't ask on here! The updated guidance is deliberately vague. IMO driving more than 10 miles is too much. But within 10 miles if you're definitely going somewhere remote I don't see the issue. Indo know why Derbyshire police got pissy about curbar, because people will say they're going for a walk and will then for in a sneaky boulder session.

I agree too.
It's just applying common sense and doing it infrequently and not driving to anywhere that's busy.

Its designed to reduce unnecessary car trips and therefore the potential for accidents/breakdowns/stops at petrol stations that risk exposing more people. I guess it would also take pressure off emergency services who would have more time to do better things than deal with RTAs.

I agree in principle but the risk of accidents is a factor - nobody should be doing anything that would raise the risk of ending up in hospital

What, somewhere like Snowdon or Dartmoor?

You and everybody else who thinks that the rules don't apply to them.

No non essential travel. Wanting to go to the same place as hundreds of others is not essential - and seeing as 80% of Mountain/Moorland Rescue Staff do it for free during days off from their jobs in hospitals, it's better to not need their help as a result of being taken ill, getting lost or falling over whilst in the arse end of nowhere.

Lots of people going up past our field to walk their dogs on the forest tracks. They've closed the official park area yesterday and today there were two cars parked in the entrance way.

I watched that Derbyshire Police video and imagine a sad little group of men on a power trip getting a right kick out of making that video.

I know that some people have been right arse holes about the whole thing, but people going to remote parts of the Peak District for a walk (presumably they live locally and have not travelled hundreds of miles to take their dog for a walk) keeping a good distance from others, are not breaking any rules.

@Lemonnhoney
I wouldn't go to the river unless your tow paths are particularly wide. I've been to the river that's usually empty near me but there are much more people and its impossible to give 2m distance...

I wouldn’t complain so much, a friend in Spain has just told me you cannot be more than 200 metres from your house unless you are getting food or medication. Fines for disobeying this rule start at €600.

Not this again. Can someone set up a “moaning about not being allowed to drive to a beauty spot” thread then everyone can moan in the same place?

It’s not only the people in the places that’s the problem - it’s the cars. You only have to look at the news to see people who all “know a quiet spot” to see that chaos reigns when they all turn up.

Open your door, walk for a mile, then turn around and walk back. If you’re worried about crowds then go early or late. It’s not difficult.

Forgot about the possible need for medical care in a remote spot, if you broke your leg or something going for your essential middle of nowhere walk.

Except lots of people will have the same thoughts and then where will be quiet?

We live right beside a regional - we can easily walk there from our house. Usually we can walk there and not meet a single soul. Until now, when we walke up yesterday we had to turn back because the car park was overflowing and full of people who had driven here to go for a walk in the countryside..

The more cars on the road the more accidents there will be, the more break downs there will be, the more often you need to top up with petrol.

This will just get silly, where does it end? The point of the measure is to stop viral spread, not accidents. I can guarantee that there will be accidents over the coming months caused by people doing diy in their homes, there will probably be injuries and accidents from home workout videos, people going on bike rides from their homes. We can’t ban everything. As long as people are only doing short drives and the place is less crowded than their local park/street when they arrive it should be encouraged IMO. The police seem have misinterpreted the point of the isolation because they like acting like thugs. Publishing drone pictures of couples out on deserted moors is so so out of order.

A regional park, that should say

Driving to somewhere in the middle of nowhere to go for a walk? Not only is that perfectly safe, I'm going to assert that it's BETTER than walking from your house, especially if you live in a built-up area

Because those of us that are trying to live and farm that land have to touch all the same gates, fence posts etc that you and every other bugger with the same idea has done.

People disappearing to the countryside are putting the nations farmers at risk. Most are over 50, many have underlying health conditions.

are we less important than your need for a nice walk?

North Yorkshire Police
Yesterday at 5:22 PM ·
Coronavirus: Today we launched vehicle checkpoints across the county to reinforce the message to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.

Please do not make any non-essential journeys.

❎Do not travel to beauty spots
❎Do not just "go out for a drive"

Only go out to buy essential supplies - food and medicine, to help a vulnerable person, or to work if it absolutely cannot be done from home.

Exercise should be done from your home and only with members of your household.

Officers will be stopping vehicles and asking motorists where they are going and why.

We launched the first of our checks in York this morning.

I drive 2.5 km each morning to a very large green space in London. It's not a park. I take my children and dog and walk there for an hour, then we drive home. There's other people there but it's huge and very easy to avoid them. I will do this until told categorically that I cannot. We don't go out for any other reason. Don't need to shop for about three weeks to a month as have deliveries booked. No doubt the self appointed MN enforcement squad will be along shortly to tell me what a selfish cunt I am but 🤷‍♀️