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 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.

The RSPCA are not medical experts to give guidance on this.

The advice is clear, do not go for a walk. This is the problem with just hoping people will listen to the guidance. Some people think fitness is more important than potentially infecting other people. The virus can live on surfaces

Are you actuly self isolating OP? Or is this hypothetical

Either way just don't do it. Advice is stay indoors don't even go for a run.

Unless you live on a remote Scottish island where you can pretty much garuntee no one will be around, don't go for a run. We don't know how long the virus remains airborne for, you don't know you won't fall over/need medical assistance in some way. You don't know you won't meet anyone. Just follow the bloody advice, it's really not that hard

Don't touch any hard surfaces as there's evidence it can survive up to 72 hours, ideally just don't go out for a bit. This is why when people are saying that the CMO is wrong in saying people won't obey a sustained lockdown they are absolutely correct.

Your shoes touching the ground isn't going to transmit the virus!

Incorrect*

Surely most people with a dog have a back garden? I mean you wouldnt get a dog wjthout the space for it. And the dog can run around in there. Not ideal obviously but it's not going to kill it, and going out for a walk might kill someone.

Have you been told to isolate? If you have that's different from choosing to be at home as a precaution.
If the schools close, I'll take kids to the park fields to run around, but not the play park where they'll touch equipment BUT if we are told to self-isolate, as a family, then we won't leave the the house at all. As per instructions.
I don't get why the advice isn't clear to people. Yes it's updated/changing but it's still clear.

The RSPCA are not medical experts to give guidance on this.
They aren’t giving medical guidance! They are following government advice, and then telling you how to entertain your pet. They have not made up some rule off their own bat.

If you are not showing any symptoms, then go. I'm a runner and if I'm running on my own I don't get close to anyone unless it's Parkrun or something (which I'd avoid if self-isolating). Dog walkers will have to go out even if they're infected ...

@Cohle The research regarding aerosols used a drum to measure viral particles that had been dispersed into it. The open air is not the same thing.

You don’t want to be walking past, standing next to or walking into a cough or sneeze just expelled, but the virus isn’t hanging around in clouds for three hours.

This is one suggestion regarding why the spread is so slow and limited in Africa - more people are outside most of the time.

Dumb question here - how is going into "your" postage stamp garden surrounded by other people's houses/gardens safer for others than going to a nicely isolated (non-honeypot) bit of countryside?

The virus can live on surfaces

Yes, but if you're running then you're not touching any surfaces, are you, other than the path with your feet!

@zafferana No, dog walkers don’t have to go out and should not go out if they are infected. Let the dog into the garden, no garden then the dog may need to be looked after by someone else or be kept in a room with a hard floor.

The likelihood of someone running past you passing on a virus that they clearly haven’t got because otherwise they wouldn’t feel like doing a run...near zero

We are self isolating as of today and feel I am going mad already. We live in a city though and the idea of infecting old people breaks my heart. Might break and go for a night walk at 3am through. Go see some night foxes.

I agree @hamstersarse. If I've got a respiratory illness I wouldn't be able to run, since running is all about respiration. I think some people are being very nonsensical about all this. Take reasonable precautions, keep your distance from others, but if you're not showing symptoms then exercise is a really good way of warding off illness.

Yes, you are isolating for a reason, are you not? Symptoms that you can spread? Stay home 🙄 your run can wait a week, surely not??

If you know what the advice is then why are you asking?

^ this

Experts armed with more information than any of us have given the advice. Why ask randoms on MN for their opinion. All it will be is opinion, not expert advice.

My opinion is you follow the expert advice.

Do a keep fit video at home instead.

No, stay indoors as the government advice states

I know someone in isolation (waiting for test results!) who has a dog and they were told under no circumstances are they to go for a walk with the dog etc!! The dog has been handed over to a family member. Why not just do a YouTube workout OP!?

I live in a flat with my dog, as I'm sure many others do. So taking them to the toilet is at least essential! I think it's all bonkers personally.

@theotherfossilsister, you are not self isolating if you go out in the middle of the night. You are social distancing.

Are you meant to be self isolating?

What will you do if someone approaches you to ask the time, or directions or ask for help? Will you say, "sorry, don't come near me, I'm should be self isolating but I'm a reckless selfish shit" or will you pretend otherwise and talk to them and put them at risk?