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!!

I would certainly like it if all the people walking up our road which has never been so crowded were banned but I think it is a step too far as in most places most people are following the rules.

Xenia - don't you have your private island anymore?

"groups of people gathering in parks during sunny weather this weekend."

is not the same as

run in the woods by self (see 3 people) followed by walk in the fields (see 6 people). Going out twice isn't the problem, it's gathering in same places that is a problem.

If I'm restricted to 1km then I'll be almost the entirely same places as a high number of other people, though, when they try to take some kind of constitutional. That seems bizarre as some kind of preferred strategy.

£400 to have a treadmill delivered. I am now eyeing up rowing machines, too.

I’d forgotten about Xenia’s island! It would be a good time for it if you could get there.

No. I sold it a few years ago for various reasons.

I can see that different areas have different needs

But even with parks open, it’s hard to Social distance here, they should leave them open.

A friend of mine met up with her partners parents for a walk yesterday, they drove to meet up and went for their walk. She didn't get why I called her out for flouting the rules. "We stayed 2m apart so it's fine". Ok so every household in the country meets up with another household and we all go for a walk in groups... I guess that's fine then.

She's intelligent on paper just can't seem to follow simple instructions. I'd love to meet up with my parents for a walk and for our children to see their grandparents, but I'm not dim and can follow simple instructions, even if it does inconvenience me.

Some people just seem to think they are extra special and it doesn't apply to them.

We can only go at the pace of the slowest person. Which means that despite the majority taking this seriously and following the guidelines, those who are taking the piss are going to spoil it for everyone. So to all the people who still don't understand, the following are not essential: sunbathing, parties, walks with extended family and friends, a day at the beach/park etc. It really isn't difficult to understand one walk a day with your family and going to the shops as little as possible. Maybe those caught flouting the rules can be forced to volunteer on an ITU ward and see for themselves this is not a holiday or a game

The government never mentioned herd immunity. Stop believing everything you read.

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

The pictures on here of people lying on the grass...they are distanced from each other!
And this is the best example the BBC could find of these supposed big groups of people??
This is fucking mental.
You know what?
The government knew what was coming in January. They have FAILED to supply medical staff with PPE, and now they are trying to blame the general population for the spread of the disease.
No.
Someone sitting on their coat in the middle of a park is not what is responsible for the epidemic. Every nurse and doctor and paramedic without adequate protection, THAT is what is spreading this!
And people are too stupid craven and curtain twitchy to get when they are being scapegoated for something that is the governments fault!
And Keir Fucking Starmer saying he would "fully support" the government if they decided to keep people in their houses 2/47.
Yeah, it's all good for Kier in his 1.75 million pound house with, presumably, a garden and probably a home gym. What a working class hero.
What about the people in a flat with 3 kids? The people in tower blocks with noisy drunk neighbours? Dogs? Kids with ADHD?

Families going to kick a ball in the middle of a playing field are not killing nurses. The governments lack of PPE and underfunded health service is doing that!

We nee to stop blaming each other, and stop with the spying on neighbours and realise we are being completely played!

Going out for more than 30 mins once a day or a couple of quick walks to let your dog's do their buisness is taking the Micky.
People told you this would happen, but oh no your right to go out was all you cared about.
This is a chemical virus, it lasts maybe 3 weeks on certain things, hot or cold, all we had to do was stay home so it kills itself by decomposition, the longer we delay the 3 weeks the longer this continues.

Spot on blakes
.spot bloody on

Sort the sun bathers rather than making life unbearable for some

It’s not just the people who are sunbathing though. I have never seen the streets around here as busy as they have been the past week or so. Dog walkers, entire families with children on scooters/bikes, people walking, cycling, running etc.

I think an all out ban was coming, not because of a minority, but because of the sheer number of people who are actually out “exercising”, sometimes multiple times a day, sometimes for hours at a time.

It defeats the purpose of the lockdown.

There’s a golden opportunity for a new political party here, I reckon.

@IWouldWalk500 - you've mentioned something very important there. This 2 metre thing. People think that's the excuse for large groups gathering - oh well we kept 2 metres apart. People here had a street party with a DJ, there were maybe 20 people but the excuse was they weren't close so it was ok. I didn't go (scared frankly) and received abuse because of it. I should have reported to the police but last week there was a report on the BBC of a DJ doing exactly the same thing and the report hailed him as a generous, community spirited entertainer.

It has to be spelt out. The 2 metres thing is a complete farce.

@Blakes77 perfectly said.

People going for runs or taking their dogs out more than once a day are not the cause of this!

I do wonder how and where the resources are going to come from to enforce tighter rules though.

You only need to look on here to see the people who will gleefully do the work of the police and authorities for them. The shopping basket SS and neighbourhood curtain twitchers for starters.

The pictures on here of people lying on the grass...they are distanced from each other!

I think the point is they shouldn't be lying on the fucking grass in the first place. I don't know why this is so difficult for so many people to grasp.

Fine them.

By teatime tomorrow, (but Thurs eve at latest) is my guess.
It will follow the timetable of the first 'lockdown'.
People are being given 'enough rope' this weekend.
Not many will be selfish, but enough will be, it will be all over SM/news and bingo, no one can go outside to exercise. I could cry, frankly.

Have a read of what @Blakes77 has written. I'm sure they were at the street party outside my window yesterday ...

Oh dear mummy2017, reality is going to come as a bit of a shock

There is no solution that involves everyone staying in for 3 weeks and it disappears

Xenia - it's a shame you sold it. That would have come in really handy right now. You could have lived there and never had to see another fat person ever again.

I would be more concerned about all the personal contact and household mingling that is going on behind closed doors than a few young people sunbathing in parks. If the young people contract it which is very unlikely they are very unlikely to need hospital care and yes they will help boost herd immunity.

However if older people visit their relatives or make excess shopping trips just to get out the pressure on the nhs skyrockets. This side of things is much less visable and harder to police though.

we are relinquishing our liberties to the government at the moment and for good reason.
However, this is temporary to protect the NHS, only herd immunity and eventually an immunisation will stop the virus, normal life with sensible precautions will have to resume soon.
Otherwise the actions we have taken will be far worse in the long term than the short term effects of the corona virus

I agree with reiki21.

Why should NHS workers, carers, supermarket staff, prison officers, teachers and the rest of the frontline take one for the team in scant PPE if people are just going to start shrugging their shoulders and doing their own thing?