COVID - general discussion - Temp Locked

" As for the ridiculous 'a coffee is a picnic' would they have said 'sorry ladies I see you are carrying small bottled waters and that is not allowed'. 

Personally i dont think people should be walking whilst drinking hot cups of coffee, carrying bottled water ok, we have a problem on our promenade where people buy large containers of very hot coffee from a small take away shack, they then proceed to walk along the promenade 2 abreast talking and drinking coffee and paying scant disregard to social distancing etc, some are even smoking , the takeway also causes congestion on the footpath making it very difficult to pass without inhaling somebody elses breath as most are not wearingf face masks  

Some police stupidly make it worse for all with regards to receiving public support. 

There was a video yesterday where customers are entering a coffee shop for takeaway coffee. There were 4 police sat at two adjacent tables drinking their coffee. When challenged they said they worked hard and deserved a coffee. They were far from pleased when their badge numbers were recorded and they were reminded that they had takeaways. 

 

We too have a big park near us, but are very careful when we use it.  At weekends definitely NOT!  During the week it's better, and we now know which are the busier paths, so steer clear of those when we do go.  Most of the paths are quite wide, so easier to distance, but even so, if it's busy, then we go elsewhere.

We have other green spaces, which aren't as busy, but again, at weekends, they're out of bounds for us too.  Saying that, the ice-grips we bought recently served us well there yesterday - the path there was really icy, too icy to walk on for most people, so we had a lovely quiet walk, it's one of the areas we don't normally use at weekends.

One thing that we have noticed is when meeting other people, the majority do what we do, and walk one behind the other until we have passed each other.  But some people, walking 2 abreast, will say "thank you" when we do that, but carry on taking up most of the path by just carrying on walking next to each other.  We have at times remarked on it, but only got abuse, so now we just go as far over to the side as we can.

Before lockdown we sometimes used the car to go for walks elsewhere, and we'd found a few very quiet places, not popular with most people obviously!

I wouldn't buy a take away coffee at the moment, it's one more thing that's been handled. This advice about take aways and deliveries was on the BBC the other day, it mentions decanting food which people don't with drinks it's just pased from person to person and then straight up to someone's mouth. LINK

People going out for exercise is ok by me as long as thye're not in groups and the area isn't overcrowded like some National Parks have been lately. The two people in Derbys where amongst big crowds all doing the same thing. A lone individual, near home, away from crowds seems acceptable.

It’s the four or five abreast, push chairs, toddlers, mobility scooters, dogs on expanding leads that get to me. Take up the whole path. So we go elsewhere, leave them to it. We can go elsewhere, maybe they can’t, most will disappear once lockdown ends again. 

I think the rules say households and social bubbles only if going out, meeting friends and family sadly is out just now. It's rotten for everyone until we get through this.

Same here!  Fortunately, access to the path we took yesterday is not accessible to push chairs etc, due to stiles at entrances.  But dogs on extending leads which owners don't retract annoy me too.  Luckily, there are vast expanses of meadow where dogs mostly get exercised, so not  many on the path.

Must say, we never knew of the existence of a lot of the paths and minor roads we now walk on every day, before lockdown.  We always walked and cycled a lot, but not from home, or very rarely, so that's been a positive.  We do enjoy our daily walk, looking forward to being able to get out on the bikes again.

"making it very difficult to pass without inhaling somebody elses breath as most are not wearing face masks"

So, do you think that a face mask somehow contains all your exhaled breath? 

Just back with Rosa after our second walk,and even though a cold wind has sprung up since earlier walk ,we were suprised just how many groups? were walking via the centenary walk rgat opened last year ,it is not people and dogs that are the problem it is the horse riders ,who cannot read and understand the difference between a footpath and a bridleway

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