AIBU to go for a run if I am self isolating?

[narisha99]

Am expecting to be shot down in flames here, but bear with me....

Self isolation advice is to stay at home for a week and not even go out for a walk. I totally get why public places should be avoided etc, but given the risk of airbourne transmission is being with 2-3ft of someone for 15 mins this wouldn't happen if I went for a run or a walk. It would be very easy for me to go for a walk in a rural area / woods etc where I would be unlikely to see many people, and I certainly wouldn't be getting close to them.

Lola, I have never vomited "in the street" or claimed that that was necessary to running.confused
Street/road/path, it's a public place and puking there us grim, be it from poorly regulating training or drinking too much alcohol.
It's clutching straws a bit to take the approach 'but I never said where i run or have thrown up'.
I never said you claimed it was necessary.
The fact you've said you clean your vomit up suggests you go out knowing fine well you sometimes push yourself to the point of vomit.

You've acted like it's some sort of occupational hazard of running and then got quite arsey when other runners have challenged you.

Most people don't run to the point of vomiting. They may have once been unwell and these things sometimes happen, as they can to anyone, but saying you spit when running, occasionally throw up and people are virtue signalling and are offended by bodily functions for disagreeing doesn't paint a picture of someone who is responsible or considerate in their training.
Chocolate, I did hide the thread but I get summoned back each time some twat tags me.
Lovely

I'm off to train my dog to poo in the toilet

Hmmm, can't see how that would work, unless it's a very tall breed. Although I used to have a cat that crapped in the bath when it was raining, rather than go outside in the rain.

Anyway, I think going for a run somewhere rural, at a very quiet time like dawn or dusk is fine, OP, providing you carry a bell and shout "Unclean, unclean" at anyone who comes within about 50 yards.

Typing on a train to London to an essential pandemic planning meeting. I am thinking about others but have a good understanding of infection transmission. We are minimising risks, of course, but from a perspective of knowledge and understanding. It is safer to walk a dog in a woods, without anything to touch, than to have a Tesco delivery.
Luckily, my behaviour is minimising the risk of a need to self isolate.

There is not conflicting advice. There are conflicting opinions. The government advice should be the one followed

The government are telling people to look at the 111 website.
The 111 website is telling people to isolate for 7 days OR until their symptoms are gone. This clearly conflicts with the leaflet you have linked.

The incubation period is 14 days! So even if she has zero symptoms, if she went for a run, she could STILL infect someone potentially!!!!

By that logic everyone could infect someone directly. Most wouldn't know they were infected until symptomatic or test positive. That applies to every single person in the country.

You won't lose fitness if you don't run for a week. The human body doesn't work like that. If you're worried about your mental health when not running, can you go out in your garden and exercise, or do something inside. Do yo have a treadmill/stationary bike? Can you do a YouTube video?

@sassbott - agree with everything you said. I’m going to have to hide every “the rules don’t apply to me because I’m a runner/ have a dog/ some other self focused reason” for the duration because this makes me so mad. There is a way of minimising the impact of this PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS and people who flout the rules are truly amoral.

Jesus, I can totally see why the Chinese started to weld people into their homes.

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people are virtue signalling and are offended by bodily function

Disliking spitting is not virtue signalling. Just because Premiership footballers indulge in it doesn't make it acceptable (or many other nasty behaviours they indulge in, and are indulged in, but that's for another discussion!)

If you get moisture in your mouth, swallow it, like the rest of us do.

Damn Paula Radcliffe, selfishly shitting herself and leaving that for people to deal with

She didn't do it on the street, she did it in her shorts!

Spitting. Disgusting. There’s NO need.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-advice/

You CAN also leave the house to exercise but stay at least 2 meters away from other people.

It would have been better if they'd said that to start with lesat.
That page was reviewed on 18th march.

It's a bit like the school's situation:
Social distance and avoid groups of people and busy places, unless you're a school
Schools are now closing
Except they're not closing
Because they're closing other than for students with an EHCP or social worker involvement,
And they'll be open on a skeleton staffing situation (because obviously school staff don't have to socially distance or follow the guidelines given to everyone)
And any child of key workers who might find childcare difficult can also attend school... Which is closed, but not closed.
And nobody has said what "key workers" are so that could be anything from NHS staff only through to anyone who can't work from home and needs childcare.

So schools in predominantly middle class areas will have parents who can work from home and we'd guess fewer children in, but if key workers includes anyone who can't work from home then other catchments (where lots of parents are on zero hours contracts, no WFH option, typically increased social services involvement, etc) could be half full.

But obviously the schools are closed.

There needs to be clarity that applies to everyone and consistency in messages.

Apologies for the rogue apostrophe. I've no idea why predictive text does that