Coronavirus: Stay or go
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Our park is very large luckily, and lots of alternative paths. But I do know what you mean. We play at spotting the “oh heck, we haven’t done this in a while” users, from the dedicated walkers, joggers, cyclists, pooch walkers who are out there regular. But everyone is getting on......thankfully at a distance.😁
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Just been on the local news. Cornwall and Devon ate asking residents to report to the council anyone who is still letting out a holiday home. They will then send round someone from the Enforcement Team, who will send the holiday makers home and shut down the holiday home.
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Yep, saw that. It’s shocking that accommodation owners are still letting property out - pure greed and disregard for others - and equally shocking that holidaymakers and second home owners are still travelling with the same disregard for their actions.
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Yes I agree TW. It is hard to believe. Kirsty Allsop, who travelled to her second home in Devon, despite knowing her family were already infected, has got a lot of flak from locals. People don't forget and I don't think she will be made welcome here anymore.
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I’d not heard that. She probably considers herself exempt being an 'Honourable'.
I see she rents out her north coast home as a holiday let. Perhaps she needs the income.😂😂
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Conflating 2 different issues, David. Derbyshire Police acted beyond their legal powers, so deserved criticism.
Avoiding unnecessary travel is a separate issue, which, as far as I am aware, remains 'advice' rather than a legal power, but the crowding is likely to lead to breaches of the Social Distancing provisions of the Coronavirus Regulations.
FWIW, I have no intention of venturing out, other than to replenish food supplies, and for a daily brisk walk to get the bare 10,000 steps; a] it's too risky, even at 2 metres spacing; b] the rate of infections in our neck of the woods is rising; and c] with the bracing wind, the chances of being gobbed on by a passing cyclist or jogger rise enormously.
If I'm lucky enough to emerge from the crisis still in the land of the living, I shall have lost stamina and gained weight, but those are trifling concerns.
Steve
P.S. My medication is Coronavirus compliant. My Aspirins are dispersible ...
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If you live in a holiday area and the forecast is good like it is in the SW you know that some will attempt to have a break (they'll be thinking it's just them so it won't really matter...) In some ways it's deliberately spreading the virus and I feel the local police might be under considerable pressure over the next two weeks "asking" them to go home. Please don't travel out of your own area, stay at home. I'm not sure anyone really knows how far this virus can spread from one sneeze or cough but they can launch 40,000 particles into the air!
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I’d check the figures again🤷🏻♂️😕
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A little now/yesterday confusion methinks.🤷🏻♂️
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Just had an over the fence conversation with the neighbour. He wanted to know if I thought it OK if he drove about 45 minutes tomorrow to a forest to go off road biking.It's a popular spot. I told him he already knew the answer by the fact he asked me for an opinion. Might be a bit too deep for him.
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I think you'll find that the figures for the USA and Spain, possibly others, are higher than here, but I totally agree with the main point you made - "stay at home, don't drive to exercise!"
However, I couldn't believe my ears when listening to the BBC's Welsh reporter Hywell Griffiths on today's 1 o'clock news , who said that only yesterday Matt Hancock had said it would be OK to put your dog in the car and drive somewhere to exercise.
Edit - I've just listened to it again on iPlayer and he really did say that!
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Thank you M, I’d seen them on news 24. I had no intention of replying to AD after that disgusting comment he made.
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I use this one David. Last update yesterday. 743 UK deaths, behind Spain but as that is double the previous day at the close of play today we should have another 1,000.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/
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AD. Just out of interest with these statistics (and I'm sure they are pretty accurate) there are some time lags and the info states that in another 24 hours the French might have updated their stats etc. At the moment the UK looks as you said but I think the information is coming in at different rates.
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Seriously! Why do some people just not get it! Firstly the 45 minute drive- Don't Drive to Exercise. Then the forest, where others might travel to. And then the off road biking - where he may come off and end up in hospital. It beggars belief. They are being asked locally not to exercise their horses, in case they fall off and need emergency treatment.
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I've had to find slots, I live out of town, I don't stockpile but I've had to think a month ahead. There are slots if you register on different sites and keep looking. I'm also using a farm shop for veg and fruit deliveries. They don't want anyone to come into their shop at the moment.
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Agreed - but I'll just repeat this part of my earlier post which may have been missed because I edited it in later -
"However, I couldn't believe my ears when listening to the BBC's Welsh reporter Hywell Griffiths on today's 1 o'clock news , who said that only yesterday Matt Hancock had said it would be OK to put your dog in the car and drive somewhere to exercise."
Edit - I've just listened to it again on iPlayer and he (the reporter) really did say that!
Some will doubtless use that as an excuse!
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