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Post by tyrednexited on Mar 22, 2020 8:58:09 GMT
People need exercise and fresh air, and it’s not difficult to maintain social distancing on a huge stretch of seafront! ...... ...it isn't difficult, but people don't do it. We live on the edge of the forest, and walk in there virtually every day when we're at home. We enter a couple of hundred yards away next to the Visitor Centre, which is now closed. Still hordes of people circulating in the vicinity, meeting up, having picnics(!) yesterday, in fact, busier than usual (probably because parking charges have been lifted). Luckily, once you've carefully avoided these hordes without touching anything, the forest beyond the immediate vicinity is as quiet as it always is. We're still talking to neighbours up and down the street. We are one of the youngest couples in the near vicinity (really!) and like to check others are well (physically as well as mentally - we know that "contact" is important to most of them). Conversations are at a minimum of 20ft, though, which means they need to turn the hearing aids up  . |
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Post by Humph on Mar 22, 2020 9:04:45 GMT
Do you do the green tights thing?
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Post by tyrednexited on Mar 22, 2020 9:20:40 GMT
Do you do the green tights thing? ...only at weekends.... |
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Post by Humph on Mar 22, 2020 12:26:15 GMT
I have black ones on now. Had them on all morning but they're a bit muddy now...
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Post by tyrednexited on Mar 22, 2020 12:32:16 GMT
I have black ones on now. Had them on all morning but they're a bit muddy now... "Special" weekend, is it?  |
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Post by Humph on Mar 22, 2020 12:44:56 GMT
Managed to get a ride round Delamere this morning. Not uber challenging and only about 8 or 10 miles but at least it was some fresh air. Quite quiet early doors but by mid morning it was filling up. Not keen on "shared" trails because you can come belting over a rise or whatever to find yourself bearing down on walkers, so you have to take it a bit easier.
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Post by tyrednexited on Mar 22, 2020 14:09:50 GMT
Managed to get a ride round Delamere this morning. Not uber challenging and only about 8 or 10 miles but at least it was some fresh air. Quite quiet early doors but by mid morning it was filling up. Not keen on "shared" trails because you can come belting over a rise or whatever to find yourself bearing down on walkers, so you have to take it a bit easier. SWMBO is not yet up to riding a bike (or driving a car for that matter - no change there, then  ) and she's been discharged from Physio, not because she is "back to normal", but because they're clearing the decks. Disappointing, but entirely understandable, and at least they responded to a phone call requesting any additional remote help that might be forthcoming, and tailored a set of exercises for her and emailed them. I really feel for those in the NHS, not only those in the Covid front line (though especially them) as I think a tsunami is going to hit them soon (bad enough in some areas already, I think). I think I'll have to dust off one of the bikes and have a few runs out, though - leave 'er indoors as 'er in't garden whilst I get some additional exercise. |
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Post by Humph on Mar 22, 2020 14:31:26 GMT
Well, I suppose we're taking a view that we will do it while we can. We genuinely came no closer than a few yards to others while we were out. But I fear the restrictions will get tighter before long.
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Post by EspadaIII on Mar 22, 2020 15:30:39 GMT
I have been out twice today. One was enforced as I had to meet three possible caregivers all of whom live in Tel Aviv. I better for me to drive one car there, than they all take buses to me 25km north. With no cafes to meet in, I sat on a wide pedestrian walkway in the middle of a slow urban dual carriageway in sunshine, and they sat on the next bench. It worked and made sure that the one who had the best English was employed as I could understand the others as well. It would normally be much busier, but was still not lockdown as you would expect to see.
This afternoon I took my father for a short walk along a reasonably deserted promenade. It did him some good so if the sun comes out again we will do it again. We met two couples who we know well. All of us kept more than 2m apart.
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Post by WDB on Mar 22, 2020 16:01:34 GMT
Won’t they close the gym any day now? I’m still shocked and saddened that Spain has closed the beaches. People need exercise and fresh air, and it’s not difficult to maintain social distancing on a huge stretch of seafront! Surely less risky than sharing a supermarket. Gyms all closed on Friday evening. I went out for a couple of hours’ walk across the fields with MrsB1 and we must have seen a dozen over-70s out. Yes, easy enough to maintain separation out there but it miffs me somewhat that 50 million of us are turning our lives upside down to postpone the death of the olds, and the olds themselves won’t stick to the basic precaution of staying indoors. |
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Post by dixinormus on Mar 22, 2020 19:43:18 GMT
Possibly a bit harsh WdB? “The olds” might be taking their final walk (outside, or ahem, quite literally) for quite some time.
Harder to excuse thousands of people of all ages flocking to the beach/parks/lakes this weekend treating the whole thing as a holiday.
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Post by tyrednexited on Mar 22, 2020 20:15:49 GMT
I went out for a couple of hours’ walk across the fields with MrsB1 and we must have seen a dozen over-70s out. Yes, easy enough to maintain separation out there but it miffs me somewhat that 50 million of us are turning our lives upside down to postpone the death of the olds, and the olds themselves won’t stick to the basic precaution of staying indoors. ...you are Dominic Cummings, and I claim my five pounds. I do hope that was written (at least slightly) tongue in cheek. My bugbear is those that won't socially distance (by and large those below, usually well below 60, but not exclusively) so that everyone can enjoy a certain level of normality. There are rather too many idiots around, though I would concede that those in the "at risk" categories who also don't socially distance are double idiots. I suspect you wouldn't have seen many in the latter category in Skegness or up Snowdon over the weekend, but there were a few out locally trying their best to keep away from the groups who had come out to picnic, and were walking en-masse on the footpaths (at least, those footpaths that didn't go any further than a couple of hundred yards from the car! As I've already said, I'm not in the high-risk category (but getting there). I withdrew from "social activity" well before the guidelines came in, as it seemed only sensible to do so. It will certainly be the old that will suffer most in this pandemic, but far from exclusively the old. We have a duty as a society to do our best for all those threatened, or we have no society. (thanks Maggie!). |
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Post by dixinormus on Mar 22, 2020 21:08:03 GMT
Perhaps around 1000 fatalities/day in the weeks ahead might focus people’s minds more 😩.
Or more likely, when their local KFC & McD’s closes...
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Post by dixinormus on Mar 22, 2020 23:00:23 GMT
Yikes, how prophetic...
McDonald’s is closing all UK stores tomorrow!
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Post by EspadaIII on Mar 23, 2020 2:25:51 GMT
I suspect the problem until now is that the youth do not know enough people who are in an at-risk group, or people who have died/suffered badly. If they did, they would self-isolate to avoid infecting others.
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) and she's been discharged from Physio, not because she is "back to normal", but because they're clearing the decks. Disappointing, but entirely understandable, and at least they responded to a phone call requesting any additional remote help that might be forthcoming, and tailored a set of exercises for her and emailed them.
