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!!

It's such bullshit. The incredibly tiny proportion of people who flout the rules would have been factored in when the initial lockdown was announced and the impact predicted. If they do ban exercise it will be because that's what they intended to do all along. But of course they won't do it without a headteacherly "you brought this on yourselves" even though 99.9% bloody well didn't.

Coughing on a night is generally a symptom of asthma not Covid-19. As you say she stops coughing when she's outside I'd assume asthma/allergies rather than Covid-19. There are reasons other than Covid-19 for coughing. As an asthma/allergy sufferer I'm starting to get a bit tired of people side-eyeing me every time I sniff or reach for my inhaler. I do not have Covid-19. Half of the time I am allergic to you and your cat hair covered jumper and overpowering perfume.

She coughs all day, continually and occasionally wakes me up coughing at night.

When I say that the coughing only stops when she goes out I mean that I can no longer hear her coughing through the walls because she is no longer there for me to hear.

Apart from exercise and essential shopping trips I am staying indoors. I do not follow my neighbour around to monitor her cough. On the 3 occasions when I have seen her outside she has been coughing but at least she is wearing a mask.

Last night I couldn't hear her coughing and was hoping she was feeling better / sleeping. She was out and about somewhere and came home about midnight. I could hear her using the lift and her front door opening. The walls are thin and I could not fail to hear her if I wanted to.

Of course I do not know whether she has the virus, just that she has a new, continual cough. Also her voice has changed over the last few days, it has become much deeper, croaky and kind of gravelly.

I also suffer terribly with allergies, my worst allergy (I was tsted in an ENT hospital) is to silver birch pollen. There is a silver birch tree outside my window and it oppresses me daily. My eyes itch and water all day long and I occasionally cough, the cough is worst at dawn and dusk.

These are exactly the same symptoms I had last year, so I do know about asthma and am familiar with feeling embarassed because of hay fever symptoms during the current crisis.

My syptoms are nothing like my neighbour's.

I have no idea whether she has the virus or some unrelated new cough however I believe it is entirely reasonable to be concerned about her behaviour under the circumstances

Clarification - when I say her voice has changed I can hear her through the wall (well ceiling to be precise). She lives directly above me and she talks very loudly on the phone.

I am avoiding her in person. Obviously.