To remind people of the exercise rules

[Orangeblossom78]

Keep seeing all this stuff where people are making up their own rules and telling people off! we were even glared at while having a family picnic on a long walk yesterday! Please stop with telling people off when they are within the guidelines.

Here is the current situation, as updated about a week ago.

What are the current rules when it comes to exercise in the UK?

Daily exercise, including walking, running, cycling, tending to an allotment or doing yoga is allowed.

You are allowed to drive somewhere to take your exercise. The guidance says, ‘it is lawful to drive for exercise.’ However, ‘Driving for a prolonged period with only brief exercise’ is also deemed ‘not likely to be reasonable’. The rule of thumb? You’re allowed to drive somewhere to go for a walk or run as long as you spend much more time walking than you do driving.

Exercising more than once per day is likely to be allowed if you have a ‘reasonable excuse’ for needing to leave your home.

You are allowed to sit and take a break from exercise, say, on a bench or sitting down in a park. However, this must be for a short time only and, as before, you must spend markedly more time exercising than resting.

YABU. I'm sick of people fucking reminding others about what they should be doing. Go away.

The problem with these 'debates' is they depend ENTIRELY upon your own location. Some people live in acres of space, can have an 8 hour picnic without affecting a soul.
Some people live in densely built up areas, where having a picnic is utterly selfish.
Common sense required and utterly pointless debating.

And here is an example of someone deciding that anyone else's need to walk and be out must not stop her wonderful family picnic - everyone will just have to make do with less space.

Yeah but flaaaat breads and hummuus though innit?

An hour is not a long walk, by any stretch of the imagination. Picnics are for when you are walking so long that you can't get back for a meal - rule of thumb 3 hours actual walking.

If you have under 7s you are unlikely to be exercising that long and IME it's wise to carry drinks and chocolate biscuits as a stopgap.

It's all about context, and the reason all these Corona virus scenarios in here cause so much angst is that each situation is different and it's a pain to have to give the ins and outs of a ducks arse to justify it. So people judge it on facts given but not the whole situation.

Picnic for 20 mins in an isolated rural location with nobody around = realistically is not going to harm anyone

Picnic for 20 mins in a congested London park or other busy location with children and dogs everywhere, with no way of being able to control social distance = bloody stupid and clueless

And here is an example of someone deciding that anyone else's need to walk and be out must not stop her wonderful family picnic - everyone will just have to make do with less space.

Oh FFS! Where do you even live that someone having a picnic means “taking up space” from everyone else?!

I live in a city with loads of green space and parks. I see lots of people while out on my daily walk, but even if we all sat down with a picnic, there would still be sooo much space for others - funnily enough we don’t stop in the middle of a footpath for a picnic, we’d move onto the grass.

Even if everyone who lived in this city sat down for a picnic at the same time, I can’t imagine the green spaces being “full”! Fair enough if there’s only one park where you live, and everyone goes there, people need to be sensible and move along, but for the rest of the country where open space is not limited or at a premium, chill the fuck out and let people enjoy it!

You can take a short break but a fucking picnic is just taking the piss.

Here's the thing, I actually couldn't give 2 fucks about you and your family having a picnic, but I personally think it's insane. All these people out, trying to prove a point. Do what you want. We are staying in. You get the virus, makes no difference to me. I won't take the risk, but you do you. My family are too precious to risk for the sake of a picnic (which can still be fun in your own back garden) but if people want to take that risk it's up to them.

Dear Pot, please meet my dear friend Kettle.

You op, are in no position to preach, and as for you thinking the replies telling you that YABU are “funny” just show exactly what kind of person you are.

Carry on going out for picnics and disguising them as exercise. Don’t moan when you or your family get ill.

I took my 2.5 year old out for a long walk yesterday morning. We were out for 2.5 hours. He was in the pram for a bit walked for a bit. I took water a coffee and a snack box. We stopped midway for a snack. Trying to keep him in his normal ish routine means a fruity snack mid morning. Which we did. He stayed in the pram. I sat next to him.

Breaking the rules?

So it's Stay home blah blah...unless you want a picnic?

Picnics are for when you are walking so long that you can't get back for a meal - rule of thumb 3 hours actual walking

Another made up rule! Whose thumb says you have to walk for 3 hours to be able to have a picnic?!

Picnics aren’t for sustenance they’re for fun. Of course we could all just go home and eat at the table. Or carry a sports gel in our pocket to fuel our walk. But people are desperately trying to get some benefits from this shitty situation for themselves and their DCs, while adhering to social distancing and not being in close contact with others. Whether or not it’s in the rules, it isn’t harming anyone.

^You are selfishly occupying a lot of space for a significant amount of time making it difficult for people to avoid you.
This means that you are taking up an unfair amount of the precious outdoor time and space.
Same goes for anyone doing anything that is staking a claim to space (large family groups on bikes - football games with lots of players) rather than understanding that social distancing means that we must allow more space to others - not take up more space ourselves.
Makes no difference at all what is 'allowed' - if you are being at twat.^

This! If you live in a rural area and can go somewhere remote it is not really a problem. You probably wouldn't even see anyone to glare. However, judging by OP's Time Out link, it is likely she lives in London where outside space is limited, so any family group taking up one space for 20 minutes are hogging that space and extending their time outside by 20 minutes, so giving fewer others chance to exercise while practising social distancing. If everyone started doing that, we would have no chance!

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@ThePlatypusAlwaysTriumphs sadly drs/ nurses at risk cant say the same, cuz they have to treat her and her family. I'd say the same if they werent going to be admitted to hospital should they catch it. Its our NHS workers and our tax money to treat dickheads. Same goes to other key workers like shop assistance who still serve them whom are put at risk

Well that backfired OP

I am so fucking bored of this shit. I’m bored of people bending the rules to suit themselves, I’m bored of the fascist police checking up on others.

Sorry I’ve got the massive hump with it all. I promised myself not to moan on mumsnet so I’m even boring myself today.
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My fucking bread is flat every time I bring it home these days cos Bob in the corner shop does all the packing himself and doesn’t get the concept of HEAVY STUFF AT THE BOTTOM!

Even if everyone who lived in this city sat down for a picnic at the same time, I can’t imagine the green spaces being “full”!

I think you'd find that they were. Thankfully most people don't and some people, sadly, don't even go out for the time that they are allowed.

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You were unreasonable for having a picnic.

You should have taken the barbeque and a gazebo and made an afternoon of it.

A friend of mine ,s Dad died last week from Covid19,so you know crack on with your picnics etc ,but he government have,nt issued guidelines for fun

But what if you have no flatbread? Would a plain cheese cob be frowned upon?

I am so fucking bored of this shit. I’m bored of people bending the rules to suit themselves, I’m bored of the fascist police checking up on others.

Sorry I’ve got the massive hump with it all. I promised myself not to moan on mumsnet so I’m even boring myself today.
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I'm with you. I am so fed up of people filling social media with sanctimonious 'reminders' about what's right and wrong. I know there are rules - I'm following them. But Christ alive I am sick of seeing people being lectured and jumped on and interrogated. If it's not 'exercise rules' it's the fucking NHS clapping. FGS just MYOB!