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.

The advice is TO STAY INDOORS

PLEASE please don't go out. What if you infected someone and they died. It's happened.

I was wondering that too. Actual scientists don't appear to think that's a risk but yeah you'll get shot down in flames

Government advice is pretty clear: do not leave the house; do not go for a walk. It’s only a week, right?

This!!

The advice says do not go for a walk. It doesn't say, go for a walk if you don't think you'll see anyone. If you have a dog that needs walking, someone else will have to do it!

If you avoid people and don't touch anything I don't see the problem.

I intend to self isolate to avoid infection, but I still intend to ride my bike, as I want to keep my fitness.

It’s only one week!!!

Imagine you faint. You will hope someone will come and help you. Or you trip and hurt yourself. Or imagine you come across someone who has been in an accident. Are you not going to stop because you should have stayed at home? Imagine everyone who self quarantines goes for a jog but then one is actually ill and can’t run and needs help from all the others who were meant to self quarantine.

Exercise at home. Burpes. Jogging on the spot. Star jumps. Squats.

I wouldn’t. If you want fresh air, open the windows. If you want exercise, youtube the gazillion of routines you can do at home (without equipment).
I am fortunate though. I have a garden and Have ordered skipping ropes and other small bits to keep me ‘moving’ if I have to self isolate.
Simply for mental health as opposed to real addiction to exercise. Especially for the kids (who will drive me up the wall if given zero exercise for a fortnight).

I’m also another one though who wouldn’t recommend a run even if feeling slightly unwell. Let your body divert everything to fighting this virus.

The RSPCA is clear - you cannot go out to walk your dog. It’s on their website, with advice how to keep your pets occupied indoors.

Also the whole point of this virus is that to some people it’s mild, they have hardly any symptoms. To others their body can’t cope.

That’s why it’s spreading so easily as people will have it and not know they have it and pass it on unknowingly.

Actual scientists don't appear to think that's a risk but yeah you'll get shot down in flames

Yes they do. I've posted one of the studies on this thread already.

In a month's time when thousands of British people are dying from this disease I hope some posters look back on how blithely selfish they were and are ashamed.

People's desire to stay fit is not more important than the lives of the elderly and the vulnerable. I'm disgusted.

I intend to self isolate to avoid infection, but I still intend to ride my bike, as I want to keep my fitness.

Well - if you're avoiding getting infected then of course you can go out and exercise. However, if everyone who is self-isolating due to fever/cough or on PHE advice goes out exercising and/or walking the dog, you're probably better off staying at home anyway.

*If you avoid people and don't touch anything I don't see the problem.

I intend to self isolate to avoid infection, but I still intend to ride my bike, as I want to keep my fitness.*

Selfish, deluded and stupid.

Yes of course depending on where you are. Don’t run through Waterloo station or a city centre. Find remote woodland or beach and you should be fine. We walk every day and barely see another soul - unless we choose to.
I wouldn’t walk a dog in a town. I wouldn’t go to public parks but popping in the car and going somewhere very isolated is fine.

I wouldn’t walk a dog in a town. I wouldn’t go to public parks but popping in the car and going somewhere very isolated is fine.
It is not.

The government guidance is don't walk your dog, don't go for a walk.

It's not just if you cough at somebody; it's if you leave shed virus somewhere that somebody else later picks up and is infected with.

I wouldn’t go to public parks but popping in the car and going somewhere very isolated is fine.

Not according to the NHS it isn't. Do you have some epidemiological qualifications you'd like to share with us? Something to explain why you know better than the public health authorities?

YABU
Just do as you are told FGS. It’s 1 week.

Selfish, deluded and stupid = people

Whenever someone moans that the government aren't doing enough to Make It Stop, I think of threads like this. We don't live in a dictatorship any actions put in place by the government require the cooperation & goodwill of a majority of the populous to be effective. That simply doesn't exist - maybe it will come later, maybe never at all. But it isn't unreasonable to suggest that the government are correct that instituting measures which people find inconvenient (oh no, poor special people how will they bear it) too soon it will just be completely ignored that the worst possible time because - well selfish, deluded, stupid sums it up.

If you're self-isolating because you potentially have the virus - then yes, you shouldn't go out.

If you're self-isolating because you wish to avoid the virus and have no symptoms/need to isolate then of course you're fine to run - the risk is yours.

Where do you run? Giant empty space with wide paths and few people or streets/smaller park with more people and grandchildren with kids?

Has the word isolation been redefined to mean 'on your own unless you feel like getting out and about'?

"do not leave the house, for example to go for a walk"

The advice couldn't be clearer. Can't you pull up some exercise videos on Youtube instead?? And not behave like a selfish twat for a week?

Yes you bloody would be unreasonable. How ridiculous to be struggling with the concept of not to being able run for a week. People are dying ffs.

Jesus, just open a window and put an a youtube exercise video, it's one bloody week, why risk it? selfish!

Of course you can’t not only through spread but the feeling is that the marathon runner in Italy ended up in ICU because he didn’t just rest when he was ill
Presumably you are self isolating with symptoms

I asked this when I went to get tested on Wednesday but was told categorically no :( I'm in 14 day isolation after returning from abroad and am so bored, taken to standing by the window just to feel some sunlight. Really missing running but not sure it's worth the risk even though my symptoms have pretty much gone