AIBU to think lockdown includes rural areas?

[Henbird]

My DCs dad lives in the middle of nowhere - fields, farms, a few houses around. The DCs are going to visit him over Easter and he is planning on going on several walks. He already goes out at least twice a day - once with his other DC (who has asthma and he has said is high risk) for exercise and once for his own exercise. My DCs are up in arms as this breaks the exercise once a day rule but he says it's fine because he lives in the country. AIBU?

I live in a very rural part of west Wales for you trolls. I'm glad I won't have blood on my hands.

I notice how you still haven’t backed up your thoughts with actual law concerned.

I don't need to its common sense.

From the UK govt website

For the rule breakers, obviously if you get 'found out'...

Those are the guidelines. The actual law does not dictate how long or how many times you can exercise each day.

OMFG sleep well... I do.

Sleep well? It’s 11am.
Have you been drinking?

Farmers are really struggling, lots of trespassing, random dog walkers disturbing sheep at lambing time, even an example of a family picknicing on a farmers garden table!
Lots of local authorities have issued signage advising walkers to disinfect gates as they go through etc. My DH has had to tell dog walkers to keep their distance from him on paths whilst he is working, and I have found several 'lost' walkers wandering through our yard.
There has been less respect for the countryside code than usual and it has had a massive impact on some peoples livelyhood.
Most farms and landowners would like footpaths shut down just the same as during foot and mouth.

Competitive quarantining strikes again.

We get it, you're better at staying in.

Here's your medal 🥇

Been for a walk and yes went through some gates, but opened them with my sweatshirt wrapped around my hand.
Isn’t that what everyone is doing using top/gloves/jacket so you don’t actually touch anything?

It's all about social distancing. DH walked the dog with me this morning and now he's out for a bike ride. We saw nobody while we were out with the dog and it's likely he'll see no-one now.

If it makes you feel better to be miserable and sit inside eating dry bread and drinking water, then go ahead.

Your children will be breaking far more rules by visiting their second home.

Lol at Concerned. I don't believe you.

We live very rurally. My DC hasn't even seen another person except for me and DH since we started lockdown, despite spending hours and hours outdoors. There is nobody here to infect us or for us to infect. There isn't even any Stiles, much less walkers.

Your children will be breaking far more rules by visiting their second home.

What are you talking about?

It's perfectly okay for children to travel between parents' homes.

It's perfectly okay for children to travel between parents' homes

Yes, "legally". But travelling between homes is a viral spread risk. Exactly the same as anyone visiting a second home or going round to granny's.

@Tonyaster it’s a balance of risk and benefit though. The consideration is the best interests of the child.

Children moving between parents doesn't 'break the rules' but it may be better avoided if there's a vulnerable person in the equation as seems to be the case here.

Yes, i understand that. But its hypocritical of the OP to be moving between homes (as noone else is allowed to do because it is rightly seen as a risk factor for spreading Covid 19) and then to moan that her dcs are going for walks in the countryside (almost no risk).

Children moving homes must be huge risk factors for spreading covid 19, whether we think its important for them or not.

But its hypocritical of the OP to be moving between homes

I thought it was only her children. Did I miss a post?

Or her children.

Its the same as my children deciding to go round to granny's, in purely virus spreading terms.

Oh for goodness sake. Children need to see their parents.

Yes, so we are building that in to the exemptions to social distancing. That doesn't mean it's magically not a risk.

If he lives in Wales it's now against the law to exercise more than once a day:

1. (b)to take exercise, no more than once a day, either alone or with other members of the household;

www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/353/regulation/8/made