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Also, one of the genuine reasons for leaving the house is ANY medical reason. Surely that would include maintaining mental health (where applicable / available) by getting out for an isolated ride / drive / extra walk to prevent partner slaughtering etc.... |
They've said no to this. It's a risk for using NHS resources. It's not you, it's the fact that if everyone thinks as you do a percentage of those people WILL have accidents. So the only course of action has to be to not ride. |
I live in quite a rural location and must admit, the few bikes and cars passing tonight were definitely being ridden/ driven in a very... spirited manner!
Obviously people blowing off steam... which I guess quite high risk to end in an accident.... I couldn't say if they would be any less likely to add strain on NHS one way or another if they hadn't done it though ____________________ Current Bikes / Projects: 1999 Rieju RS1 50
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Quote: | Sadly I don’t think so.
I dearly hope I’m wrong, but I think things will be worse .
I hope to go away on the bike in September, but I’m not convinced it will happen due to this covid nonsense.
I’ll bet that once the restrictions are lifted, people will go bonkers!
I think the chaos that will follow this nonsense will be nearly as scary as this shite is now. |
It is optimistic I know. If and only if people stop going to parks and kids stop hanging about in groups will lockdown be lifted, and obviously cases and deaths reduce. Which I doubt will happen within 2 weeks. But, I do expect a lift with the lockdown. Shops, retaurants and most public places still shut, but a little more freedom to travel about. Its more wishful thinking really. Its possible they said 3 weeks so we will comply instead of telling us 3 months and we riot. |
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They are talking 14 days for the dormancy of the virus, and 14 days for symptoms to abate... So realistically we need lockdown for around 5 weeks to try to stop the spread a bit. This is all guesswork too, it's possible the virus lies dormant for longer than that... so I think we're looking at at least 6 weeks of lockdown, sadly.
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The problem is, this "stay indoors" isolation only works if everyone plays ball. When you've sat indoors all week, bored out of your skull, to see people all over Facebook, going for a ride, driving out to the coast or the allotment, it kind of grates.
We're all in this together, some need to remember that instead of thinking going out is fine because it's quiet due to those who are sacrificing their freedom for the greater good.
If we were all this selfish, we'd be in martial law and a complete lock down by now. It's these morons who will force it into place. ____________________ TZR250 2MA road, TZR250 1KT road, TZR250 2MA race, TDR250, YZF-750R Boost colours.
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Fisty wrote: | - wrote: | driving out to the coast or the allotment, . |
My parents have 3 allotments, they grow 90% of their own food. Would you suggest they stand in line at Tesco or go to the allotment to maintain their main food source? |
If all 75,000,000 of us "go to the allotment", nobody will be staying indoors. If you're talking about restricting time outdoors, a visit to Tesco once a fortnight is more sensible than hours down the allotments every day. The problem here is these people are relying on everyone else but them to stay indoors, so they can go out in a quiet outdoors. It seems a bit selfish tbh.
There will be very little to harvest on an allotment this time of year, I have one in my garden. ____________________ TZR250 2MA road, TZR250 1KT road, TZR250 2MA race, TDR250, YZF-750R Boost colours.
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There will be very little to harvest on an allotment this time of year, I have one in my garden. |
Then you should know that now is time to be planting and sewing, today they pulled the first potatoes grown in the tubs in the polytunnel. And cut the first of the asparagus.
It's not all about the harvesting. 3 large allotments for 2 people aged 65 plus is a lot of work.
As a guess I would say you have a basic veg patch, not an allotment that you rely on for your food.
- wrote: | If all 75,000,000 of us "go to the allotment", nobody will be staying indoors. |
True, but if 75mil of us had allotments there wouldnt be the need to strip tesco bare or stand in line to wait for a carrot being infected by others.
Your average allotment has plenty of space to be 2m away from someone.
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If all 75,000,000 of us "go to the allotment", nobody will be staying indoors. If you're talking about restricting time outdoors, a visit to Tesco once a fortnight is more sensible than hours down the allotments every day. |
The Asda close to them has hundreds of people in it at any one point, add into queuing for an hour to get in.
So the potential once a fortnight to bump into several hundred people, handle goods touched by 10's of people.
or go to the allotment 3 times a week and bump into 2 people.
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Fisty wrote: | - wrote: |
There will be very little to harvest on an allotment this time of year, I have one in my garden. |
Then you should know that now is time to be planting and sewing, today they pulled the first potatoes grown in the tubs in the polytunnel. And cut the first of the asparagus.
It's not all about the harvesting. 3 large allotments for 2 people aged 65 plus is a lot of work.
- wrote: | If all 75,000,000 of us "go to the allotment", nobody will be staying indoors. |
True, but if 75mil of us had allotments there wouldnt be the need to strip tesco bare or stand in line to wait for a carrot being infected by others.
Your average allotment has plenty of space to be 2m away from someone.
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If all 75,000,000 of us "go to the allotment", nobody will be staying indoors. If you're talking about restricting time outdoors, a visit to Tesco once a fortnight is more sensible than hours down the allotments every day. |
The Asda close to them has hundreds of people in it at any one point, add into queuing for an hour to get in.
So the potential once a fortnight to bump into several hundred people, handle goods touched by 10's of people.
or go to the allotment 3 times a week and bump into 2 people.
I know which risk I would take if I had the choice. |
This is precisely the problem. A section of society are making excuse after excuse to not stay at home. They won't die if they leave the allotment for a year. If everyone did what they were doing, people will die.
Every journey is apparently essential, even though the majority are abiding by "stay at home" advice.
The number doing this is low at the moment, but soon others are going to think, fuck it, if they're out every day, so are we.
Then we lose hundreds of thousands more lives. ____________________ TZR250 2MA road, TZR250 1KT road, TZR250 2MA race, TDR250, YZF-750R Boost colours.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 28 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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