Coronavirus = empty roads

[stumpage]

Have to go into work each day as we are manufacturing items for medical equipment.

This week has been great only saw one car on the way home and the commute is being made in the TVR........for some reason the route to and from has got a lot longer each day!

[Boosted LS1]

You have to take the longer route to avoid the crowds.;-)

[sharepointalex]

Boosted LS1 said:

I think that's what they'd like us to do.

For me it's about common sense and being confined in your car isn't spreading anything. The last few days I've walked in the countryside near me and I've driven to get there. It's less then a mile. If I walked there I'd encounter people on the pavements.

+1 on this, I drove with my daughter to a country park around 17:00 yesterday (about 4 miles away), deliberately because I thought it would be quite and she wanted to practice riding her bike.

Again it's all common sense, I can't see an issue with driving to a quieter place to do your excercise.

We've still not had any police roadblocks near me (yet).

[95JO]

I went for my daily exercise at lunch yesterday and I was shocked how many people were out and about. What was even more weird was that most people were crossing the road to avoid walking directly past one another, very strange thing to witness.

[Antony Moxey]

sharepointalex said:

+1 on this, I drove with my daughter to a country park around 17:00 yesterday (about 4 miles away), deliberately because I thought it would be quite and she wanted to practice riding her bike.

Again it's all common sense, I can't see an issue with driving to a quieter place to do your excercise.

We've still not had any police roadblocks near me (yet).

A lot of TV reporters/analysts are saying that this is wrong. I saw a police chief being interviewed on the news yesterday and he was asked that very question: can we drive to a place to carry out our daily exercise activity, to which the reply was a very emphatic no. It's not a necessary journey and if you're going for a walk/run/bike ride it should be from your front door, not a couple of miles away, even if, ironically, it would be quieter.

I've also seen on Facebook (I know, I know) reports of cars parked up at beauty spots having leaflets left under the wipers from the police asking why they were there, was it a necessary journey and a reminder that they should be exercising from home.

[rosetank]

95JO said:

I went for my daily exercise at lunch yesterday and I was shocked how many people were out and about. What was even more weird was that most people were crossing the road to avoid walking directly past one another, very strange thing to witness.

Ah, you’ve met the in-laws then

[sharepointalex]

Antony Moxey said:

A lot of TV reporters/analysts are saying that this is wrong. I saw a police chief being interviewed on the news yesterday and he was asked that very question: can we drive to a place to carry out our daily exercise activity, to which the reply was a very emphatic no. It's not a necessary journey and if you're going for a walk/run/bike ride it should be from your front door, not a couple of miles away, even if, ironically, it would be quieter.

I've also seen on Facebook (I know, I know) reports of cars parked up at beauty spots having leaflets left under the wipers from the police asking why they were there, was it a necessary journey and a reminder that they should be exercising from home.

Yeah I’ve literally just seen this from the Nottingham Post - https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-world-news/...

So it looks like my drives out for exercise are no longer. Shops only then or of course helping others.

[ARHarh]

Why do people think it is fine to drive to somewhere for exercise? Stay at home, exercise in your local area. North wales police are moving people on from beauty spots. A non local was removed from Snowden yesterday, and he asked the police where he could go to and not be sent home. If it happens again this weekend, like it did last weekend. The visitors will be physically removed by the locals, they are already preparing to block roads to the attractions. Expect parked cars to be removed by tractors, they have the kit and will no doubt use it.

[kiethton]

The answer is then to just go shopping further away/near where you need to be...

I needed to get the summer tyres for the Exige so went to get them from the garage in Orpington, 6 miles away, but made sure I stopped by the offy to get a drink for that evening so I could evidence shopping.

Then after fitting the tyres, to make sure all was ok, needing to give the car a proper run and craving the pies, we drove to Morrisons in Crowborough to get them.

We're currently out of ice cream in the house, considering driving the long way to Camber/Hastings to get some this weekend. May then be able to combine it with some exercise and take a walk down the beach. If the car gets banned I'd just do the same on the push bike anyway

[Antony Moxey]

kiethton said:

The answer is then to just go shopping further away/near where you need to be...

I needed to get the summer tyres for the Exige so went to get them from the garage in Orpington, 6 miles away, but made sure I stopped by the offy to get a drink for that evening so I could evidence shopping.

Then after fitting the tyres, to make sure all was ok, needing to give the car a proper run and craving the pies, we drove to Morrisons in Crowborough to get them.

We're currently out of ice cream in the house, considering driving the long way to Camber/Hastings to get some this weekend. May then be able to combine it with some exercise and take a walk down the beach. If the car gets banned I'd just do the same on the push bike anyway

It's a shame because attitudes like that are exactly why the government will crack down further with us ending up like Spain and the suchlike with police enforced clampdowns. From what you've described I'd suggest none of those journeys were even remotely necessary and suspect even now if stopped by plod you'd have a hard job convincing them you weren't just being a smart arse.

[TCX]

kiethton said:

The answer is then to just go shopping further away/near where you need to be...

I needed to get the summer tyres for the Exige so went to get them from the garage in Orpington, 6 miles away, but made sure I stopped by the offy to get a drink for that evening so I could evidence shopping.

Then after fitting the tyres, to make sure all was ok, needing to give the car a proper run and craving the pies, we drove to Morrisons in Crowborough to get them.

We're currently out of ice cream in the house, considering driving the long way to Camber/Hastings to get some this weekend. May then be able to combine it with some exercise and take a walk down the beach. If the car gets banned I'd just do the same on the push bike anyway

Big sense of entitlement there,till it's replaced by a raking cough

[JeremyBearimy]

Little word of warning for those enjoying the empty roads a little too much at the moment, speed awareness courses have currently been suspended.

[Speed Badger]

kiethton said:

The answer is then to just go shopping further away/near where you need to be...

I needed to get the summer tyres for the Exige so went to get them from the garage in Orpington, 6 miles away, but made sure I stopped by the offy to get a drink for that evening so I could evidence shopping.

Then after fitting the tyres, to make sure all was ok, needing to give the car a proper run and craving the pies, we drove to Morrisons in Crowborough to get them.

We're currently out of ice cream in the house, considering driving the long way to Camber/Hastings to get some this weekend. May then be able to combine it with some exercise and take a walk down the beach. If the car gets banned I'd just do the same on the push bike anyway

You would be doing a good job on spreading yourself around as much as you can. Guessing someone else is using the family brain cell this week?

[The Moose]

kiethton said:

The answer is then to just go shopping further away/near where you need to be...

I needed to get the summer tyres for the Exige so went to get them from the garage in Orpington, 6 miles away, but made sure I stopped by the offy to get a drink for that evening so I could evidence shopping.

Then after fitting the tyres, to make sure all was ok, needing to give the car a proper run and craving the pies, we drove to Morrisons in Crowborough to get them.

We're currently out of ice cream in the house, considering driving the long way to Camber/Hastings to get some this weekend. May then be able to combine it with some exercise and take a walk down the beach. If the car gets banned I'd just do the same on the push bike anyway

How dumb do you have to be?

[Chubbyross]

I just can’t understand the mentality of some idiots. Stay at home means just that. You can go for a walk/cycle/jog locally but that’s it. Anything else is just plain selfishness and/or stupidity.

This is the reality of what it can be like. And he was lucky and survived.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/this...

[Limpet]

So many in our society seem to have a very hard time differentiating between a convenient journey, and an essential journey. I can't work out if it's selfishness or stupidity. Or both.

I learned on a team call this morning that a 44 year old colleague, with no underlying health conditions is currently in ICU fighting Covid-19. He's on a ventilator, and his condition is deteriorating. I'm not sure how many more of these cases have to be all over the news, and how many more graphic footage has to come from places like Italy before the thick and selfish who can't or won't inconvenience themselves to follow simple instructions, finally get it.

If by going out and about unnecessarily, you just put yourself at risk, I'd be thinking crack on. Natural selection, and all that. But you're not just putting yourself at risk.

[Shnozz]

Limpet said:

So many in our society seem to have a very hard time differentiating between a convenient journey, and an essential journey. I can't work out if it's selfishness or stupidity. Or both.

I agree. This arbitrary approach to activities outside of the home is unsurprising but saddening.

I have many friends in Spain who are pleading for people in the UK to isolate now before we end up in a similar situation. Seeing in their press the hospital corridors full of dying people lying on the floor without rooms, without beds and without ventilators is a sobering reflection of what happens when a healthcare system is overrun. As was listening to a Spanish radio station last night (usually an upbeat station) that was taken up with calls in from listeners seeking requests and giving tributes to lost friends and family.

[kiethton]

The Moose said:

kiethton said:

The answer is then to just go shopping further away/near where you need to be...

I needed to get the summer tyres for the Exige so went to get them from the garage in Orpington, 6 miles away, but made sure I stopped by the offy to get a drink for that evening so I could evidence shopping.

Then after fitting the tyres, to make sure all was ok, needing to give the car a proper run and craving the pies, we drove to Morrisons in Crowborough to get them.

We're currently out of ice cream in the house, considering driving the long way to Camber/Hastings to get some this weekend. May then be able to combine it with some exercise and take a walk down the beach. If the car gets banned I'd just do the same on the push bike anyway

How dumb do you have to be?

Its odds and probabilities which are minuscule for all that I have and am likely to come in contact with. When in the car its only me and the Mrs and we're sleeping on top of each other daily. Hence, there is relatively little external contact here....

We are also both also 95% certain we've had it already, albeit very mildly. We both commute into town everyday, used the tubes regularly and had a few days of fluctuating temperatures, taste loss and aches a few weeks back, although it we both weren't great we still went to work (thinking it was just a time of year thing) and got by.....

The media have really drummed up mass hysteria really

Edited by kiethton on Thursday 26th March 13:07

[kiethton]

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[TwistingMyMelon]

Fckin hell. I cant believe that someone thinks that changing tyres on a toy car, buying ice cream and going for a beach walk are essential journeys!