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I've started to realise how much of a cock I'm sounding about this for which I apologise. I am a terminal pedant and this goes against me.
I did not intend to hint about any inside information over policing beyond informal conversations with officers I see and speak to almost every day. Over the last few weeks I was just trying to point out that the perception of the issue is far more damaging than the reality and wanted to point out that what I have been predicting to happen here has already happened in other European countries.
It doesn't matter that recreational cycling probably has zero/minimal impact on transmission. Sadly the thing that matters is that its easy for incorrect perceptions to be fed into the decision making process as we have seen elsewhere.
We're in the second week of the lockdown and we are already seeing people becoming a bit more slack with their conduct in relation to the guidelines as indicated by the increase in traffic. Further tightening is inevitable.