What constitutes selfish fannying around though? If someone is in a park, they are adding the same amount of risk whether they are sitting down relaxing or strenuously exercising.
The risk is not the same.
It is easy to determine whether someone is exercising or not by observing them for a few moments. Context is everything.
I could walk for a couple of hours and be near a river I could exercise in. It would be really healing and therapeutic for me and exactly what the physio ordered. I have not been to the river however because if I exercise there then everyone else wants to jump in the river.
I make the sacrifice, to the detriment of my health, for the greater good.
Sunbathing falls into this category surely. People can sunbathe without harming anyone if they keep a safe distance. The problems is that one person subathing becomes 2 becomes 4 becomes 8 etc until the park is full of people sunbathing in a way that is not safe.
We can't start saying that only the hardened exercisers NEED to be there.
I don't know about "hardened" but exercise is essential for health and also reduces the risk of the coronavirus progressing to Covid-19.
It is a completely different level of priority to sunbathing for that reason.
I'm not defending them, but the photos of people from Primrose Hill yesterday looked like family groups sitting apart from others. They were all trying to do the right thing, there were just too many of them.
Exactly, a family sitting enjoying an afternoon in the sun is not a probelm, except that it rapidly becomes many families and other socail groupings which is unamanagable and potentially very unsafe.
Sunbathing, unlike exercise, offers no protection against Covid-19