Exercise could be banned - Matt Hancock

[LittleRen]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52172035

"Matt Hancock told the BBC's Andrew Marr that the government would "take action" if further measures are needed to bring the coronavirus under control.

It comes after reports of groups of people gathering in parks during sunny weather this weekend."

So do we think this will happen - normally this is how it goes, the threat comes, and a week later it's reality. It's a shame that people still flouted the rules this weekend :(

I can't see a thread on this already but please let me know if there is one!!

They are handling the gunman by not letting people walk up to them, keeping people away from the gunman whilst they call up the SAS to take them out

Maybe we should turn it around. Imagine if they said "We need unpaid volunteers to go out and be infected."

"But it's their fault if they do. So if they take public services, key workers, and vulnerable people down with them, just remember, they were warned."

Tracking apps on mobile devices. People who have spent 4 hours sunbathing in St James's get a £300 fine. All automated. That might get through, and raise a bit of revenue.

@justasking111 so true 😂

So because the government are at fault we just accept some frontline deaths as collateral damage?

Tracking apps on mobile devices. People who have spent 4 hours sunbathing in St James's get a £300 fine. All automated. That might get through, and raise a bit of revenue.

So they will just leave their phones home.

It's not even bloody hot where I live. There's no one sunbathing. I'll be well pissed off if the whole country gets exercise banned because it was hot in London and the South.

All this because people are terrified of death? I might as well do myself in now if this is the future.

Once again, like elections etc, I can only hope
MN is a concentration of what most people don’t think.

@LilacTree1

What an odd analogy, of course we all should be getting infected!

On an individual level, your chances of dying (if you are infected with CV) are roughly equal to your chance of dying in the next 12 months of any cause.

Unless you were unduly pre-occupied with the risk of dying in the next 12 months before this outbreak, it's wholly irrational to fear infection with CV.

That's exactly why they want everyone nanochipped with the 'vaccine'.

Some of the Nazi's on Mumsnet will be begging for it.

They seem to have a habit of saying 'please do x' 'if you don't do x we wil do y' 'you didn't do x so now we are doing y'.

It's how they tighten up the lockdown but make it seem like its our fault.

Tracking apps on mobile devices. People who have spent 4 hours sunbathing in St James's get a £300 fine. All automated. That might get through, and raise a bit of revenue

Thank XXXX you don't run the country!
Spoof GPS or leave the 'phone at home? what then Stalin?

I am generally ok with lockdown as I see the end point

I don't see the end point. Prof Neil Ferguson, who is apparently acting in an advisory capacity, is the same Prof who advised the government that swathes of our populous were going to be wiped out by swine flu and avian fli. In the meantime the more measured voices coming out of KCL are warning Westminster that they've painted themselves into a corner and have no viable exit strategy.

If they really do go ahead and try to stop people leaving their properties altogether - and how on earth is that going to be policed across an entire country?; especially given our increasingly diminished resources - they are risking anarchy. If people are going to be accepting of these draconian measures for weeks' to months' duration, they need to see strategies and have a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel.

The problem is, there are none. Responses have been purely reactive and there has been no thought given to even to the short- to medium- term consequences of this.

The media also have a lot to answer for. They're concentrating on reporting the dicks (those boozers in Newcastle pictures the tabloids so love they have to actively go out and find) rather than the vast majority of people who are behaving sensibly and applying common sense.

The other trouble is, once draconian measures like this are introduced, governments like them just a little bit too much. The behaviour of some police forces is already being criticized, and by the judicary, no less.

This won't end well.

Maybe we should turn it around. Imagine if they said "We need unpaid volunteers to go out and be infected

My family and I would be first in the queue, just as we are first in the queue for any vaccination.

We are precisely the young(ish) and healthy individuals who ought to be doing their bit to develop herd immunity.

It's the selfish lot who think sunbathing in a park does 'not harm' who will propel us toward a total lockdown.

Everyone should stop being a wuss and start saying what they actually think, because if we don't life won't be worth living soon anyway. I agree with you Lilac.

Sadly, LilacTree1, what you will find is that most people are a bit thick. Just tell them any old crap, point at their neighbour/nearest handy foreigner and say it's all their fault, wind them up, off they trot

It's nice to see people reading up a bit on history anyway. Well done mummmy2017

Look. If everyone would follow the rules, hopefully this will end sooner. However there are still a lot of people who are flouting these rules.

Therefore, I think the government has no choice but to stamp down on this.

I live in Brighton and see the cars arriving this sunny weekend. We need to shut our beaches like in South of France and also out beauty spots and parks.Police are doing their best here

@LilacTree1 - my apologies, I didn't realise you were quoting another poster!

mind DM’d you.

DCO we can have a socially distanced chat in the queue!

Look. If everyone would follow the rules, hopefully this will end sooner.

OK, someone's going to have to explain this to me. HOW does following the rules end this sooner?

MN is a concentration of what most people don’t think.

interesting so most people think it is ok to go out and risk getting infected and infect others overwhelming the NHS, that is pretty depressing @LilacTree1

Well you crack on, party until death...

@SnoozyLou

I really do support the social distancing measures the government have introduced at the moment, and I think social distancing is really important, but there is absolutely no way I would agree to the government tracking my movements at all times. I have nothing to fear from this, as I am following the rules, but for me I think that would be a hard line in the sand that I wouldn't accept crossing.

Imagine Corona was a Gunman
You were told stay home or get shot.
Would you then demand to exercise?

I've got a much better chance of surviving corona with no medical intervention, than surviving a gunshot wound

It will end this peak sooner but not the whole thing.

We still need to get through the rest of the numbers as we can’t lock down until vaccine.

Just let those people out get it. Low risk probably.

Brace yourself - follorules will help stop spreadyof disease. That is what the rules are for