Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

I also saw a number of old people sitting in cars - clearly they had driven in just to sit in their car by the riverside. I kind of get the idea, but I'm not sure they're helping much either.

Isn't this quite effective if you're old and self-isolating? Better than chancing it with the dog walkers etc.

The UK waiting for Public Health England to tell them they can cover their mouth and nose with an old t-shirt.

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Yeah probably but they don't make the whole 'social distancing' thing any easier when you walk past a parked car and you look down and instead of a closed window like with all the other parked cars you see the face of some geezer reading a newspaper a foot away from you.

Prime idiocy from our government atm.

We are going to 'ban exercising' because other people sunbathe and have bbqs..

Why not just go hard on the fines and dispersals for that lot then? Ugh.

Just seen this on the tinterweb..

Has exercise just been removed from the .Gov site?.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

***Stay at home

Only go outside for food, health reasons or work (but only if you cannot work from home)

If you go out, stay 2 metres (6ft) away from other people at all times

Wash your hands as soon as you get home Do not meet others, even friends or family.

You can spread the virus even if you don’t have symptoms.***

???...

"Health reasons" could be construed as exercise I guess?

I was thinking that too.

Indeed it could.

Hopefully it is clarified to avoid confusion.

'Avoid' and 'confusion'.
In the same sentence, from this government......

Has exercise just been removed from the .Gov site?.

Check web.archive.org and the answer is no... that was the text a few days ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200402094110/https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

Yeah - this. Everyone our way seems to be obeying the rules. Anyone at the park is keeping a reasonable distance and not being a dick about it - it seems low risk to me (obviously not an expert). It's certainly lower risk than Sainsbury's.

The govt has managed to stop (I imagine) 95% of gatherings and travelling. My personal interactions have gone down from hundreds per day on the tube, to half a dozen or less. Is that last 5% worth the loss of goodwill?

In other news, I got an anonymous note through my door this afternoon referencing the virus and asking that, in this time of national peril, we refrain from using our barbecues due to, I assume, local asthma suffers.

Thought that was a bit over the top.

I got an anonymous note through my door this afternoon referencing the virus and asking that, in this time of national peril, we refrain from using our barbecues due to, I assume, local asthma suffers.

Thought that was a bit over the top.

I think this is totally fine.

But then, I don't have a garden and I am jealous and this is how I can deal with that jealousy.

No issues thanks for clarification.

Don't walk that close to cars, you might get doored.

Ha!

Agreed.

The previously gloriously clean air of outer north west London
is now (locally) polluted with the distinctive odours of unburtn hydrocarbons
as this years debutant BBQ-ers attempt to light garage/shed-damp charcoal
and revert to firelighters.

(Just for clarity: I have not put any notes through neighbours letterboxes,
nor yours).

Might be applicable: I bought a ladder, can now climb down on my kitchen roof. So worth it!

Edit： To clarify not for bbqs, but at least get some sun

Good to hear. Hopefully this means that the police have been told to ignore cyclists for now, which wasnt the instruction they were receiving last week.

christ are we ragging on people having a fucking barbie in the comfort of their own homes now?

get a grip.

well that would be reckless and put more of a strain on the emergency services.

Outside their home is preferred.

Outside their home is preferred.

Not everyone has a field.

I'm assume the local asthma sufferers are doing quite well due to the general reduction in diesel and petrol fumes. Although the ones that are triggered by hay fever not so much.

Apparently this is the problem of the people without a field. People are allegedly feckless if they have kids before they have moved to a house with a garden.

Although the ones that are triggered by hay fever not so much.

In all seriousness though, even as someone with a hay fever I think having lower general pollution is good as your membranes are just slightly less stressed to begin with.

Obviously that doesn't help when everything is in full bloom and you start to see layers of pollen on cars etc.