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/

I'm in Paris so affected by this new rule. My initial reaction was "ugh another restriction" because we take the DC out for a run around the block after lunch.

But all we'll do is move it to after breakfast

It's strange because I live on a major avenue but it's really quiet since the lockdown.

I don't see it as any "punishment" or sacrifice to go out early in the morning, it's a very small price to pay to reduce risk.

I have to combine mine and DSs (age 11) exercise as he can't go out on his bike alone around here (and we enjoy the time).

Going late in the day would be OK, but gosh I'd rather he slept in the morning otherwise it makes for an even longer day keeping him occupied while I work.

I'll be really sad if they do the same here. We are rural and often don't see a soul out on our bikes.

I am normally a runner but I am injured so cycling is keeping me sane.

I'd accept it of course and still count my blessing that we do have a small outside space, but gosh I'd be bitter.

10am - 7pm isn’t too bad, people who live in flats will be able to get up early and go for a walk/run/ride or go after 7pm, doesn’t mean they people can’t exercise at all. I get up and walk before 10am as I have less chance of bumping into anyone, the suns out and it’s reasonably warm.

I think London could end up doing the same.

Hows it reducing risk though daisy

How is cramming people who would exercise during the day into tiny slots before and after?

You only need to Look at the tube trains to see what happens when say 100 people have to crank onto 1 train instead if being spread out over 4 or 5

Oh sorry - it's banned between 10am and 7pm. Well that would be OK, there's a bit difference between 7 and 10am!

In biarritz you are banned from sitting on a bench longer than 2 minutes
I imagine this might be hard to police!

How is cramming people who would exercise during the day into tiny slots before and after?
They really don’t want people to exercise outside at all. That’s how they want to reduce risk. They are gradually forcing people to stop.

Easter is coming up - that will be a huge additional problem to police in large built up areas

YOU CAN

GO

FOR

A WALK!

It’s just running that’s banned 10am- 7pm

Arrgh.

Sounds like a money making scheme rather than a workable plan with any point to it.

daisy

Obesity and being unfit would increase your risk of dying/becoming very seriously ill. Those who use fitness to deal with their mental health problems or keep them from habits such as smoking or drinking would also then be in a situation where their risk factors increase.

How is that helpful

I need to get out to walk around - my back is pretty crap and seizes up of I don’t! There’s a limit to how much indoors exercise you can do in a flat.

Why is running banned at that time?

@SarahTancredi
I’m not making the rules. If even cancer treatment is being postponed, issues like growing obesity can be postponed for now. Getting on top of the virus now is deemed more important. They are trying to save lives today, those who might die today. They are not looking at lives that could be saved in weeks or months or years in the future. I’m someone whose crucial cancer treatment has been cancelled, so I feel it deeply. Other people who are at death’s door right now have priority.

Just heard on the news review of locdown now this week so i expect it to tighten up here

Question remains though are we or will we get on top of it.

We haven't even cured the common cold yet.

If I went outside right now it would be further away from anyone than if I went into my garden.

Certainly in the UK the focus is not on stopping the virus merely slowing down the spread so hospitals cope.

Even fast tracked a vaccine is a year away.

We are all probably going to catch it its just a case of when....

And I think its that along side ever tightening rules that gonna have people go "stuff this " if they are gonna catch it they would rather get it over with.

If I was being cynical I'd say it's an attempt to get rid of all the "new exercisers" that seem to have appeared in hoards since lockdown.

Logically a percentage of those won't bother after dark whereas those who regularly exercised before lockdown will just alter their routines (or go back to the dawn/dusk exercise routines that they had to fit around work before)

Of course they have appeared in their hoards though. Many would have walked or cycled daily to work or used a gym or had active jobs that meant they didnt need to deliberately exercise

I'd worry about the intelligence of a government who couldn't figure that out and saw fit to think they needed punishing some how

It's not a punishment.

It's just to make lockdown more effective, otherwise we'll be in it forever !

Re : cycling - you are not allowed to go cycling here anyway, unless it's to get to work or for food.

RE obesity being more of a killer than COVID19...

Isn't obesity mostly linked to what you eat, not how much you exercise?

I'm not sure 1 or 2 months of reduced exercise is really going to threaten my life as much as getting coronavirus.

My colleague's husband has just been admitted to intensive care here in France. They were popping out for bread every couple of days.

I'd say he would have been safer at home than out getting his exercise and bread every 2 days.

Assuming lock down is just a month or 2..

Theres no cure
No vaccine .
It's been transmitted to animals
No one knows if immunity is a thing or not.

I don't think these questions will be answered in a month or two.

We could be talking a year or 2 as far as a vaccine goes

Have French, Italian and Spanish suicides risen? They're on so much stricter lock down than us I wondered how their mental health was faring amongst all this?

Regarding the "new exercisers"... I don't think that just because more people are now visible to you means they are new to exercise!

Eg Previously, the kids round my area went to school/sports clubs/dance lessons/ holiday clubs/playgrounds/softplay/ trampolining and also day trips to beaches, woods, parks etc that are now off limits due to distance.
Now, if their families are following the rules, they are limited to a walk round the suburb they live in.
So they are more visible to the people who used to have those streets to themselves even though they are getting out much less. Same goes for adults who used to get other forms of exercise (gym, cycling to work, exercise classes, hiking, swimming, even just walking round the shops!)
They have every bit as much right to their local areas as those who were lucky enough to have those places to themselves up till now.

I don't understand why people can't grasp this?

I run at night - around 10 pm I see almost no-one. If they limited exercise to night time, no doubt my solitary runs would become busier. But that would not be because people would be taking the piss. I don't actually have a greater right to the street at night just because I "got there first".

RarePackOfLooRoll I don't think those figures are available. If people live alone it may not become apparent for some time.

Regarding the "new exercisers"... I don't think that just because more people are now visible to you means they are new to exercise!

Regarding the sheer amount of parents who could not imagine WALKING to school (when they could, not when they are living 25 miles away on a country road with no pavement), it's pretty safe to say that A LOT of people are "new exercisers".

Better late than never, nothing wrong with that, but it's funny.
Same thing with people who go to the gym in January and will disappear for 11 months before returning the next January

If all that was needed to get kids, teens and adults out of their screens and start them to be healthier was a lockdown, the government should have banned going outside years ago!