Dog walk this weekend?

[Ladyks]

I’ve had plans with a friend for my husband & I to meet her & her BF for a dog walk this weekend. Just the 4 of us, my 9mo old, & the dogs—probably going to a largish park for an hour or so. My friend works with children, not sure her BF has been isolating or not, and DH & I have been home. These plans were made a couple of weeks ago. Should I still go considering the state of everything? I feel like it’d be fine, but also don’t want to be irresponsible.

@cologne4711 absolutely no idea .
It’s like someone just grabbed the first thing to hand when it kicked off and everyone else followed ..

Can I ask if you are self isolating because you have symptoms or just socially distancing because this seems advisable?

If the second then yes you'll be fine - just keep a little distance between each other and don't hug/kiss your friends.

Haven't we all been advised to stay in where possible?

NO, WE HAVEN'T.

Please can we all stop spreading misinformation. Going for walks is explicitly including in the list of things that it's fine for most of us to keep doing. Unless you are in the very high risk category, or self-isolating with symptoms, you are perfectly fine to go to the park, walk the dog and meet friends.

Even for those self-isolating, the advice is:

If one person in any household has a persistent cough or fever, everyone living there must stay at home for 14 days. Those people should, if possible, avoid leaving the house "even to buy food or essentials" - but they may leave the house "for exercise and, in that case, at a safe distance from others".

Not alarmist bollocks @Alsohumam
"The tests show that when the virus is carried by the droplets released when someone coughs or sneezes, it remains viable"
It can persist in the air for hours.
www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-study-idUSKBN2143QP
Those of you planning to go and hang out with your friends are putting the rest of us at risk.

No, they’re not.

Surely fresh air is better than being enclosed indoors? Of course you can go out walking. Or to your local swimming pool come to that. The entire world populations cannot stay inside for nobody knows how long, that is totally UNhealthy.
Just have a bit of common sense, be careful and if you think about it - it's better to go for a walk with a couple of friends, than say 4 or 5 people being cooped up indoors in the same flat.

And telling people not to leave their houses, even to buy food, could be a very dangerous comment to make, no matter who's making it. Someone could take this literally and become seriously ill through malnutrition through eating the wrong foods (when their healthy ones run out), because they think they can't go out to buy more. Not everyone has someone to 'call round and help them'.