Paris bans all outdoor exercise during the day [title edited by MNHQ]

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France has banned daytime outdoor exercise from tomorrow with fines equivalent to £120 for non-compliance. 6 months in prison if you continue to disobey the rule.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/11345945/coronavirus-paris-ban-outdoor-exercise-jail-france/

With the longer days it's light before 5am and until around 9pm, so personally, if I lived in a town or city I'd be going out to run outside that time anyway. If only so I don't have to play "dodge the person" while running.

Has anyone actually read that article. It’s only in Paris and they can’t go out between 10am and 7pm. It’s not a complete French lockdown 🙄

Another source

www.thelocal.fr/20200407/paris-bans-outdoor-exercise-between-10am-and-7pm-during-lockdown?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Bring it on

Love the attitude that we should do the same, until people realise that would mean London only, then all the reasons why its so bad come out...

They’ll be facing larger crowds in Paris at 7pm i reckon.

For those of you who say you want the same here, who is going to enforce it?! In France I've read that they have drafted loads of extra people into the police with minimal training to enforce the lockdown. And what sort of people do you think are going to apply for those roles? It's going to attract the worst sort of people, those who like to lord it over others.

Stopp being so reasonable. Next you'll be pointing out that the only way out of the shit show is a vaccine, which means that tighter lockdowns are not related at all to how quickly we get out of this mess. Or that tight lockdowns also kill people - through all sorts of channels, such as reduced medical care, reduced mental health support, increased recession etc.

Anyone would think you were trying to think this through logically instead of using your knee jerk to react.

I live in London and take the dog out @5/6am before going to work so wouldn't be adversely impacted by this should the rules change .

The people hospitalised now did not catch Covid from exercising in public.
They caught it from workplaces, schools, public transport, socialising and mass events.

Exercising in public while following social distancing rules is not 0 risk but it is low risk.
(Even being out in public places and not complying fully with the rules is still much lower risk than how most of us were behaving a month ago).
Enforcing the rules we DO have now would work better I think than adding new ones especially without considering the impacts properly.

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Bengalcat the adverse impact for you would be that it becomes much busier at that time!

Bonkers as everyone will now go out between 9am and 10am and it will be 20x as crowded surely?

Exactly.
Women won't want to go out for night walks alone or with their kids as it's drummed into us from childhood that being out at night alone = rape and that = our own fault.

Men are good though, eh. 10pm walks fine and dandy for them.

Again, women and children chucked under the bus.

It's Paris - not France. Maybe you should ask for MN to edit your title as it is not true?

This is a but naughty... but I feel that most of the people who want us to do this here are people who spend a lot of their normal life before this crisis indoors on the internet and are quite glad other people are being forced to have a miserable time too.
If you’re a normal, healthy, active person who usually sees friends, exercises, goes to work etc this is just the most dire idea. And as discussed in many, many other threads has more lots of negative consequences. Which is why most intelligent people within the government, in the opposition and in scientific, social care & medical communities are trying to avoid it at (almost) all costs.

It's jogging.

Not walking.

To cut down interaction with people queuing outside shops.

That's all.

(your source is the SUN !)

Let’s hope the message gets through to those who feel the rules should be flexible because they live in blocks of flats. 🙄

Are they providing vit D to kids if this is prolonged?
No need. It’s light well before 10am. Plenty of time to get out in the daylight.

Oh well that's fine then.

Female joggers have never been attacked outside core hours, have they?

exercisers will now stay inside when the city centre is busy with key workers commuting but can still exercise outdoors when the streets are quieter. That makes it easier for the police to check that people are outside for legitimate reasons and also will improve social distancing. Sounds like an excellent plan.

Literally every part of the title of this thread is misleading.

It's not "France", it's not "all outdoor exercise" (only jogging) and it's not "during the day" (which heavily implies daylight hours).

Nice one OP.

It seems an awful plan. What evidence can they possibly have that it will be effective? We're not facing poor outcomes because people are exercising outside, we're facing poor outcomes because we were under prepared (despite modelled pandemic response fairly recently), we stopped testing too quickly and cancelled large gatherings too late. This weeks death rates will reflect last month's behaviour, knee jerk reaction is pointless at best, potentially dangerous. It must also be understood that lots of people are dying of things that aren't covid 19. All action to suppress covid has a risk.

i thinik its a bit weird to restrict to certain ho9urs meaning more people are out at the same time

I do think we should lockdown parks now here you dont need a park to get exercise

It’s a terrible, irresponsible, completely over-the-top, irrational, knee-jerk reaction.

People will not tolerate that level of misery and I don’t blame them.

I'm in Spain, where lockdown means lockdown and no exercise is allowed, barring SEN. And nobody's died of it so far. We'll all be fatter by the end of this but at least pisstakers are easy to spot (and heavily fined). I'm not saying we like it or that it's in any way desirable, but needs must.

Wetham I think that ideally the rules should be more flexible for those in flats than it is for those with gardens.
And I say that as someone with an (albeit small) garden!
Unfortunately I think it would be near impossible to manage different rules for those with no other access to outside space.

At the very least they should be trying to mitigate the affects of extended periods of lockdown on people in flats.
Vitamin D for flat dwelling children would be a start.

Google rickets in children if you think it's so ridiculous.