Personally I am beginning to be worried about events re-scheduled for early 2022. I think the lockdown will be very much slower coming off this year. As any letting off will just spread the nastier versions of Covid. Its not going like the Spanish Flu yet, which fizzled out after three winters. Theres a long way to go yet - virologists are predicting still fighting new variants out to 2030 . Anybody vaccinated early this year is going to be needing a booster against the UK and SA variants by autumn this year. And again and again. You probably wont get let into an event or be allowed to get on a plane without checking your ID card/tag/whatever with the government database at the entrance or checkin desk, and getting a go/no-go from the NHS at that point. If you insist on refusing. You dont get to do whatever.
I’d like to think that. Perhaps my view is tainted by the realities I experience due to city living, working and observations of general goings on via the media! Our inputs differ greatly I’d wager so we won’t agree!
That's the stuff I don't read/watch or listen to at all so I have only my own countryfied experiences to go on. You city types may well behave completely differently, I concede our circumstances are easier in the sticks. To look on the bright side, if the R number is falling despite your selfish majority ignoring the rules to suit themselves, that's good news isn't it?
Lockdown is pretty binary really. Other measures requiring an ounce of empathy and self control seem a little more of a problem
The mixed messages and have been a mockery of anyone trying to do the right thing. Certain sections of society carry on, others must lock themselves away. Flights from infected countries fine, don't hug your own mother. It goes on and on. To find people reading between those lines and doing whatever suits themselves can be no surprise because someone will be officially sanctioned to do just that or something so exactly parallel that it may as well be the same. Before that all started with an eye test drive people were behaving really well if the complete silence and lack of vehicle movement was a sign. The official messages have become more and more stupid, like it being ok to sit in a pub if you eat but not for a few pints. It's a wonder to me that anyone at all is taking any notice.
Example .... local paper reporting. Why isn’t the report about why these todgers were breaking rules. But no. Any Facebookers will see loads of stuff being put on line about what folk are up to. It’s business as usual for many people and great cos it’s quieter cos some are obeying the rules.
Good call. I don’t know but I thought you weren’t supposed to leave your home without good reason. Doesn’t that cover it? That fun enough for you!
Well the guy at the bottom would not know how to fit hard hat that's for sure. No a+e beds if they fell too is one of the reasons I've cut way back on road cycling and narly mountain bike rides . Well not that narly I'm getting old
The stupidity of doing it and putting others at risk is a bit of a side issue. Wasn’t it just last week someone from mountain rescue was seriously injured responding to a call to some walkers on the fells. This is exactly my point. It isn’t time to do what you want!
I don't know what the guidance for climbing is and whether that falls within permitted exercise, you'll probably have to check with the British Mountaineering Council. As a winter climb Kinder has several routes ranging from grade 2 to 6, to be on it you are likely therefore to be a reasonably proficient and experienced winter climber. It just depends on whether they guys doing are local ... what is local? The guy isn't wearing a hard hat @nell#2 those are what builders wear, its a climbing helmet and he probably has a couple of layers underneath. I think the hill walkers who got fined had travelled some distance and clearly weren't local as well as getting lost and calling out the rescue services means they probably weren't operating well within the limit of their own skill and experience. As an aside the RYA considers boating to fall within the definition of permissible exercise, but then say you must be local etc.
This is exactly my point. Bending the rules to suit your own selfish argument of wanting to carry on as normal. Did they stay at home... no. Was there an increased risk from what they did which would burden emergency services. Yes. They didn’t walk there from around the corner where they lived now did they. We can all be clever and twist the rules but there’s a stay at home order in place. This isn’t reasonable and there’s plenty of it going on. Is cycling 30 or 40 miles reasonable. No it isn’t! Is running a marathon reasonable. No it isn’t! Many of us are literally staying at home and complying whilst others justify their own arrogance. Needy needy selfish pillocks!
Surely it is operating within the rules. Show me where it says we aren't allowed outside our front doors. If you want to run a marathon or even a half, I for one won't be moaning at you.
@Dicky So you may leave the home to exercise once a day, with one other person from outside your household as long as you don't travel outside your local area. It doesn't place a restriction of how long that exercise should take?
