SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

It's not enough. People will keep taking the piss.

There should be two 'Exercise Hours' a day - like, 12-1 and 8-9 etc for people to walk dogs / kids and so on.

Yea, that's what you want. The whole of the UK leaving their homes at exactly the same times.
 
So it's stay at home and not provide for his family?

What people SHOULD do is a long way from what they can do in a lot of cases. If the sites are open, they will go.
Yep, this is exactly my friend's stance on it. Even though there are 100s of them all working within close proximity to each other.
 
Sorry to ask the important questions here but I wonder if takeaways are still allowed to be open
 
It's not enough. People will keep taking the piss.

There should be two 'Exercise Hours' a day - like, 12-1 and 8-9 etc for people to walk dogs / kids and so on.

what the others said. Crazy idea.

Edit: ok so if you don’t have a kid or a dog you can’t take a walk. Also a crazy idea.
 
I'm curious, i cycle regularly and even i'm confused as to what constitutes once per day....a 6hr bike ride? So many loopholes i can find already.

Boris slightly bungled what he was meaning, as he said "one form" of exercise.

Obviously you can do one form of exercise numerous times a day.

But he obviously meant one "session" a day. But like you say, a session can last forever.

I also was debating with people about why 1 long run would be any safer than 2 shorter runs?

However, i'll keep in with the 1 run a day routine. We all have to do our bit, while totally not melting down
 
I wouldn't have imposed such strict measures before someone even died from the virus. Unfortunately, there's a balance between the impact on lives and the long term economy and difficult decisions have to be made and sometimes (in hindsight), everyone's an expert.

I'm not an expert like you and I definitely won't politicise a global pandemic.

Why are you suggesting that commenting on measures introduced by the government is "politicising" the pandemic?

I never claimed to be an expert. Would retracting my initial statement of "weeks" and saying that these measures are one week too late be any better for you? I suspect not and yet it's me that's apparently being political... :rolleyes:
 
He's described lockdown, but not actually said lockdown.
It's almost as if, again, he was strongly suggesting what we should and shouldn't do. None of this is going to be enforced. If I go out tomorrow I'll still see people in groups, I'll still see people go out numerous times a day and I'll still see people meeting family and friends
 
I'm in the process of buying a new house was supposed to be getting the keys on Fri. Got fridge freezer, couch, internet etc. All ordered.

Have no idea what will happens with all that ...I cant pay a mortgage on a house I'm not in!

In fact theres a chain so the seller will be stuck in it and so on. Wish they'd allowed something like that to be completed. Isn't it contractual/legally binding given the missives are concluded. What a nightmare all round .
I bet you can be sued for not paying the mortgage on a house you're not in!
 
Does everyone in the country have a dog / kids...?

Lockdown for everyone else.

There's 10,000,000 kids in the UK and I have no idea how many dogs. Let's say their parents go with them and 1.5 kids per family and you have approx 25,000,000 people.
 
The state of people on here, just pull together for feck sake, sad as feck armchair warriors on here who think a roll of bog paper will help them, tragic how insufferable think they know so much. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are the first in the lines for Tesco. Anyone playing party politics should really just piss off.
 
It's almost as if, again, he was strongly suggesting what we should and shouldn't do. None of this is going to be enforced. If I go out tomorrow I'll still see people in groups, I'll still see people go out numerous times a day and I'll still see people meeting family and friends
Yeah, the language was far too friendly. Needs to just say 'Lockdown, any groups of greater than 2 seen in public will be dispersed, so dont be a cnut'.

The twats that have been ruining this for everyone need it spelled out for them, they dont read between lines. Stay the feck inside.
 
So in that case what is your opinion on the current measures - which are even more lax?

It's a tougher measure, and that's needed at this point.

The problem with the idea is making them all go out at the same time as you would be making it worse. It's the same with food shopping - maybe different times for individuals to go shopping / exercise would work better. Each person could be given an hour slot throughout the day / every other day.
 
'Mike Ashley has declared Sports Direct an ‘essential service’ so that he can keep his stores open.'

:rolleyes:
 
I don't think people realise just how many are in this boat.
I think people assume a building site is like just building a house where there might be four or 5 blokes on the job which may be true. But I'm talking about huge contract jobs for the big firms in the country where the sites are massive. I've worked on a few myself years ago, so I know how mad it must be right now. They'll 100% all go into work until it's made illegal or the contractors shut them down, which they won't as they'd lose too much money.
 
People talking about going for multiple walks or long walks as some clever loophole, but really, there's very few places left to actually walk to as all the parks and shops are closed, so how many people will really be doing that?

The main win for now would be dispersing larger groups of people and stopping people hanging around in public places rather than stopping a few people doing too many laps around the block, as those things are actually enforceable
 
Does everyone in the country have a dog / kids...?

Lockdown for everyone else.

What about exercise that you mentioned?

Fact is, people will moan about Boris Johnson, and I feel this should have been put in place a couple of weeks back however, its actually quite tough to think of a viable idea that will suit all parties.
 
They’d have to. There’s still going to be lots of people needing to use cars.

I'm a mechanic and I'm working tomorrow.

The problem is I need parts to fit, that means people in offices to call, delivery drivers to deliver said parts, if you close the parts stores then mechanics can't fix cars.
 
The problem with the idea is making them all go out at the same time as you would be making it worse. It's the same with food shopping - maybe different times for individuals to go shopping / exercise would work better. Each person could be given an hour slot throughout the day / every other day.

I said two designated hours in my original post, so they wouldn't all be out at the same time. Make it 3, whatever.

Point is - it needs to be tougher.

Children below 16 with an adult and / or dog walkers are the only people who should be out for designated times - everyone else should be in lockdown.
 
What about exercise that you mentioned?

Fact is, people will moan about Boris Johnson, and I feel this should have been put in place a couple of weeks back however, its actually quite tough to think of a viable idea that will suit all parties.

I said exercise for CHILDREN and walking of dogs. And I stand by it.

In fact, I think there's a good chance that it'll be the next 'idea' that gets implemented.
 
Listen mate, if I don't get there tomorrow, those 2 pairs of Donnay joggers for £13 are going to be sold out, gone I tell ya!
I'll fight you for the last Lonsdale wellies.