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It's an interesting call that the government has made. Many flu viruses can be transmitted by heavy breathing or even by breathing while talking if you're close enough. Granted, it's a very minor mode of transmission compared to coughing and touching your face but it's clear that the harm caused by allowing people to exercise is far less than the harm of preventing it.
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My take it on it is that the PM has effectively said “do some exercise”.
This instruction could simply be to allow us a degree of freedom or it could be because he/his advisors know that people not exercising and staying cooped up indoors will get restless and their health, especially their mental health, will suffer and this will make them less likely to adhere to the lockdown in the longer term.
So, while the advice is to leave the home for one form of exercise a day, I’ll be making damn sure I do.