Outdoor exercise could be banned in the UK

yay

Absolute shocker and makes me angry given that there is no correlation between the two.

e.g. was out running here yesterday and past a group of four (two tourist couples) gathering themselves together to take a selfie while I'm swerving well clear of them.

Pretty easy to have police out (if we had any left!) to take care of that nonsense but because we don't they'll take wholesale action to target everyone.

The obvious thing to do is have a “no loitering” rule in spaces like parks. No, you can’t have a picnic or sunbathe (lolwut in March in the UK) but you can go for a 45 minute trot.

Hopefully the fear of the privilege being removed will stop the retards... but then they’re retards for a reason.

Here’s a nice one: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/05/scotland-chief-medical-officer-seen-flouting-lockdown-advice-catherine-calderwood

Well they are barely enforcing the lockdown rules as it is there are still loads of people doing what they want so if they do ban exercise will it make much of a difference?

If this is introduced, I will be out for a run every day. I cannot live in an Orwellian state of house arrest if my actions are hurting nobody. Ban exercise? How is this going to help relieve pressure on the NHS? It will hammer people's mental health in the short run, and physical health in the slightly longer term, which will just bring those patients into the NHS wards instead of COVID-19 patients.

They had DRONES shaming people for going for a walk in ISOLATION. We are going down the big-brother path, and it scares me more than the fvcking disease. I hope to God this is a bluff from Hancock, but I can see the writing on the wall.

This is sickening.

Friend from Germany has gotten stuck in Austria for weeks, he was first there for a work trip then this all happened. Total quarantine/lock down there had him sneaking out in the dead of night to go run on remote trails to avoid a fine. Now the government is requiring that people install tracking apps on their smartphones. Weird times.

Newsflash, you simply leave your smartphone at home. More tips on the hour.

When I bought a rifle a few years ago I had to answer questions for a background check. One was something like, "Are you a convicted criminal not allowed to own a gun". I mentioned to the clerk that this was more like an IQ test, and he said you'd be surprised how many people answer that "Yes".

Banning outdoor exercise hasn't seemed to help Spain. Time will tell.

BuyTheDip wrote:

The obvious thing to do is have a “no loitering” rule in spaces like parks. No, you can’t have a picnic or sunbathe (lolwut in March in the UK) but you can go for a 45 minute trot.

Hopefully the fear of the privilege being removed will stop the retards... but then they’re retards for a reason.

Unfortunately it was quite warm today, Heathrow reached 21 deg C this afternoon plus peoples' threshold is probably lower as they are so fed up with being indoors all the time. The police could get a lot tougher and block off park entrances if they have to. Not sure if the law itself needs tightening?

"Matt Hancock confirmed that under current rules, sitting or lying in parks was not permitted.

“Sunbathing is against the rules that have been set out for important public health reasons,” "

Fvck this wrote:

If this is introduced, I will be out for a run every day. I cannot live in an Orwellian state of house arrest if my actions are hurting nobody. Ban exercise? How is this going to help relieve pressure on the NHS? It will hammer people's mental health in the short run, and physical health in the slightly longer term, which will just bring those patients into the NHS wards instead of COVID-19 patients.

They had DRONES shaming people for going for a walk in ISOLATION. We are going down the big-brother path, and it scares me more than the fvcking disease. I hope to God this is a bluff from Hancock, but I can see the writing on the wall.

This is sickening.

I don't want to see outdoor exercise banned but it brings one advantage, if you aren't on a direct line from your house to the grocery shop you are in trouble. What I see in a lot of the pictures posted today is people who've gone out on their bikes and just happened to 'stop for a bit of a rest' in the park. In other words they really just used the bike as a prop.

It seems the happiest solution would just be a ban on loitering. Yes, people using the bike as a prop sucks, but I believe the issue pales in comparison to a hypothetical blanket ban on outside exercise. I could not do that, I would be driven utterly insane.

The Scot wrote:

"Matt Hancock confirmed that under current rules, sitting or lying in parks was not permitted.

“Sunbathing is against the rules that have been set out for important public health reasons,” "

While I don't want to see people doing this -quite honestly because I don't want to be stopped running -I really don't see the logic.

If you're aloud to exercise as long as you maintain social distancing and keep within family / groups of two or less, why can't you lie on a blanket, when you're not even moving, not passing anyone at all for a longer period than someone exercising? The chance of infecting / being infected is actually far less. They're going to have to think this through, especially if this continues once the weather improves further.

Finally these bearded ultrarunners with they funny packs on have an advantage.

It always looks like they coming back from a store and they have a gel to prove it.

If the USA bans exercise, I will engage in civil disobedience. That’s all there is to it. I’m all for staying home and for society to shut things down at a high economic cost. But I will not be locked inside my house.

BuyTheDip wrote:

The obvious thing to do is have a “no loitering” rule in spaces like parks. No, you can’t have a picnic or sunbathe (lolwut in March in the UK) but you can go for a 45 minute trot.

Hopefully the fear of the privilege being removed will stop the retards... but then they’re retards for a reason.

If they can paint boxes around homeless people in the US, I can loiter in the park all I want if you maintain the halo, sir.

Angry Edinburgh Runner wrote:

The Scot wrote:

"Matt Hancock confirmed that under current rules, sitting or lying in parks was not permitted.

“Sunbathing is against the rules that have been set out for important public health reasons,” "

While I don't want to see people doing this -quite honestly because I don't want to be stopped running -I really don't see the logic.

If you're aloud to exercise as long as you maintain social distancing and keep within family / groups of two or less, why can't you lie on a blanket, when you're not even moving, not passing anyone at all for a longer period than someone exercising? The chance of infecting / being infected is actually far less. They're going to have to think this through, especially if this continues once the weather improves further.

AIUI the overall logic is to have a very simple set of 'essential' things you're allowed out for and that makes it much easier to police. For example we have a botanic gardens near where I live but the only bit of grass you can lie on is quite cramped and on a nice warm spring or summer day it quickly fills up. If we followed your idea it would be a real pain for the police to monitor it and disperse groups/couples who (inevitably) had crept closer than 2m apart. You can guarantee the public wouldn't self-police it. In fact we saw that yesterday.

I live in a country (Israel) that banned outdoor exercise 10 days ago following TV reports showing crowded beach front trails. You are not allowed to exercise and, in fact, not allowed to go more than 100 meters from your home which is obviously not conductive to any sort of outdoor activity. To their credit, the police here is exercising a lot of common sense in (not) enforcing this. I ran in the streets every day since the ban and even though I was seen running several times by police cars, they never tried to stopped me. The only time I was actually warned by the police is when they saw me running in the (very empty) fields outside the town I live in. If anything, this ban had the opposite impact. I have been running here for more than 15 years and never saw so many runners outdoors (though to be fair, all gyms are closed so that could explain some of the increase in outdoor running).