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Being outside in the fresh air is some people's run or bike ride in terms of contribution to their mental and physical health i suppose.
Most definitely. Let's remember how many people there are in the UK who do almost fuck all in terms of anything one could call exercise. They haven't all suddenly started jogging and cycling.
Ive seem some fata to show that this might be happening, such ad the increase in road traffic last week.
The question really is what the primary purpose of this traffic is at this point. It surely can't all be people driving to the Peak District to unnecessarily walk their dogs. I don't know.
I still think the fact that there hasn't been a particularly high amount of pressure on businesses to scale down operations and enforce social distancing at work beyond the ones that have physical contact with a client is going to prove to have been a much bigger issue, both due to spread at work, and spread on the way to work. Same with the slow implementation of the rules for supermarkets, though it seems the whole 'distanced queueing' and 'one in one out' thing seems to now be generally applied at least.
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Will be interesting to see if this will be reflected in the infection rates.
The infection rates from the testing we aren’t doing? Sure.
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Being outside in the fresh air is some people's run or bike ride in terms of contribution to their mental and physical health i suppose.
Its hard to get people to think about collective behaviour rather than individual behaviour. You can focus all you like on being 2m away from the next person but if youve got enough people in a relatively small area surely the risk of transmission increases? Sure, a small number of people 2m apart isnt a problem...but hundreds? Thousands?
I wonder how much of a problem collective normalisation is? As the weather improves and people see other people stretching the rules, will they loosen their own adherence? Ive seem some fata to show that this might be happening, such ad the increase in road traffic last week.
The google data that was published a few days ago showed that people in the UK are were spending about 20 to 25% more time in public spaces compared to other nearby nations on lockdown. Will be interesting to see if this will be reflected in the infection rates.