Covid-19 How are we doing?

[Doomed]

They have just painted new double yellows down the end of my street this week - essential work?
Mind you, the parking here was awful, parking right up to and overlapping the junction to the more mainish road.

 

[Zerax]

There's been lots of road works around me recently... I think they're making the most of the reduced traffic levels !

 

[snowhead]

The guy across the road from me does Line painting.
It must be a lot easier and safer to do with less traffic.
He was working for the first 2 weeks of lockdown but has been at home since, he may just be off on holiday tho'.

 

[telectrix]

The guy across the road from me does Line painting.
It must be a lot easier and safer to do with less traffic.
He was working for the first 2 weeks of lockdown but has been at home since, he may just be off on holiday tho'.

he's probably run out of road to paint.

 

[littlespark]

This is the perfect time to be doing roadworks, if it can be done with the workers 2m apart...
That, and litter picking. Get the roadsides cleared.

my local is taking this opportunity to decorate while there’s no punters.

 

[telectrix]

line painting after a few pints of home brew.

 

[Edtwozeronine]

I know all this physical distancing malarkey is to help stop the spread of the virus (thus easing the NHS strain) but it all seems pretty mental to have closed down so many businesses, especially those where physical distancing is easier to do. I wanted a key made up the other day and it wouldn't have been hard for key makers to allow 1 person in at a time or something and keep themselves open like the supermarkets are.

As mentioned by the Scottish wench, supermarkets are possibly one of the last places left where large amounts of people can gather adding to the possibility of infection - thus wearing a mask in such places being advisable.

With a mask you're less likely to cough or sneeze out the droplets that pass on the lurgy and also keep you from poking at your own crevices where perhaps more than just the usual bacteria are lurking.

I also hate all the picking on people with activities that are almost a form of self-isolation in themselves like fishing. Who is a loan fisherman going to bother if they just sit/stand there next to a lake. I doesn't bother me at all and seems to have sent people mental about the most illogical of things - I blame the tabloids!

 

[Midwest]

I think the concept, is to keep people’s contact with others to a minimum. Shopping for food is seen as essential, although buying bbq briquettes is probably not. Alcohol definitely is IMO.

Thus driving or cycling to your favourite fishing spot, has the potential to put you in contact with someone, where really there was no need to in the first place. I know a lot are going stir crazy, but the idea you go outside, is to get some essentials and a bit of exercis.

 

[littlespark]

I don’t want to start a massive war over this, but when queuing outside at Tesco’s, for essential supplies such as the examples above... (cough alcohol)
We’re all standing on the dots Tesco laid down for us, because a lot of people don’t know what 2m looks like....

Could you please.... pretty please.... refrain from smoking in the queue?

 

[Edtwozeronine]

I think golf is another one you could do physically distanced assuming you were being your own caddy. I'm not actually a fan of either golf or fishing, it's just that logically speaking you can keep your distance from others while doing them.

Any others we can add the list of distance sports? Shot put? Javelin?

 

[telectrix]

I think golf is another one you could do physically distanced assuming you were being your own caddy. I'm not actually a fan of either golf or fishing, it's just that logically speaking you can keep your distance from others while doing them.

Any others we can add the list of distance sports? Shot put? Javelin?

both the anglers association and the golfing fraternity are at present petitioing the government along the same lines of argument.

 

[davesparks]

I think golf is another one you could do physically distanced assuming you were being your own caddy. I'm not actually a fan of either golf or fishing, it's just that logically speaking you can keep your distance from others while doing them.

The trouble is you are likely to encounter people at some point on the journey to or from the activity.
If driving you will inevitably have to stop for fuel at some point and meet more people.

With any activity there is a risk of accident or injury that could result in you having to get medical help and being exposed to more people.

Plus the virus survives on surfaces for a couple of days, the places you go may he devoid of people, but you could still pick up the virus.

 

[Midwest]

Thing is, if you’re driving back from your fishing or golfing trip and have a car accident and injure yourself or someone else, you’re then exposing the emergency service to additional burden and risk.

 

[telectrix]

playing devil's advocate, both the 2 points above would also apply in "normal" life, before corona. in fact with hardly any traffic on the roads at present, the likelyhood of a RTA is much lower than normal.

 

[Midwest]

But the point is you could do, and golfing isn’t an essential activity.