COVID - general discussion - Temp Locked

regular exercise, and riding a bike is a really good one, i do it almost daily, increases your Hippocampi (the area of the brain involved in memory) and thankfully i can still remember the good old days before we devastated the world with something we now call Covid-19 ,

Walking is my regular exercise, i try to do an hour most days but i dont go out in heavy rain. At weekends i try do do one 10 mile+ walk. Clearly due to restrictions it all has to be done locally but that doesn't bother me, it's good to be out of the house for a while.

In the present climate anything that gets in the way of the dire messages being put out is scandalous. The event yesterday, whether or not it  actually broke the law, it stretched the spirit. In this case there was ample room say at Chequers to take a bike ride that was away from prying eyes. Surely those at the very top are aware that everything they do is scrutinised and their legion of advisors are aware of this. Just wait for every man and dog to use this stretch as an excuse for their wrong doings..I know my views are straight to the point but there you are.

In the absence of a definitive definition of local this is just an exaggerated story for the purposes of giving BJ a kicking, If you go out for a bike ride, reaching a point 7 miles from home is probably what most would consider a decent bike ride, but surely not excessive. So, the debate just becomes silly, should he ride around in circles in the rear yard of 10 Downing Street or bigger circles on Horse Guards Parade or follow a proper cycle route somewhere?

In this case there was ample room say at Chequers to take a bike ride that was away from prying eyes

Are you seriously suggesting that the PM should travel over 40 miles to what could be considered a second home to exercise? You've been posting about second homes and now you are suggesting he does that  just to avert prying eyes?

But what has been stretched here Fish? Local means your village, town, or part of the city you live in. He stayed local, within his part of the city? 

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the trip had not been "against the law - that's for sure". People should go for exercise "from your front door and come back to your front door", she said, adding: "That's my view of local."

Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: "What we are asking people to do is when they exercise to stay local. Now local is, obviously, open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means.
If you can get there under your own steam and you are not interacting with somebody... then that seems perfectly reasonable to me.

So you think its preferable for him to travel almost 45 miles, so 90 miles in total, so that he can be "away from prying eyes"?

If he is aware of the scrutiny this may have seemed a bad idea.

As for views on a 7 mile bike ride, I am unfit and in my 60s and my usual rides are a circular route of 14 to 20 miles leaving from home. 

By choice I would cycle off road but, as that means driving to access it I think it better to do it from home.

Oh, good idea! Drive 40 miles to Buckinghamshire and then go for a bike ride🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This whole latest Boris story could so simply have been avoided by saying in the first place that he had cycled from Downing Street as we are now being told. Why not simply say that from the outset? 

The whole Boris story could have been avoided if it was recognised as a non story and media and finger pointers debated more substantial and important issues

It would and indeed should have been made a non story simply by stating "the PM cycled from Downing Street" - end of story.

Then the "medIa and finger pointers" could indeed have moved on to more substantial issues such as questioning our esteemed Health Secretary's continued use of the expression "don't blow it now" as if 80000+ deaths and rising  was somehow an acceptable outcome.