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Boris fancies a ride and bit of fresh air, security detail tell him that cycling through the centre of london with all the traffic and plenty of loonies who would be happy to take a swipe at him with their car (he is kind of recognizable) is a bad idea, verboten.
Chuck his bike in the boot and take him to the park. Seems kind of sensible to me, but it makes a story for all the whingers.
Perhaps there was a cheeky bit of intent in what Boris did.
Stories of over-officious coppers handing out fines - pop in the car and drive 7 miles to a safe place to cycle - makes a point and quite publicly that the law actually allows it and the coppers had gone over the top.
Shame on you Graham, criticising the Guardian based on what I’m assuming you assume it said. On the Boris biking thing they’ve been pretty fair from what I’ve seen. The best was from Marina Hyde as usual who suggested that 7 miles away wasn’t nearly far enough for Boris :) https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...e_iOSApp_Other
I suspect this was the case, which will probably go down well with a lot of people, especially those in his party and more broadly who view the current restrictions as an affront to their civil liberties. I suspect they'll also be a whole bunch of others who see it as evidence of the confusing nature of what we're being asked to do e.g. stay local, etc.
Personally, I think it'd better to have very explicit rules on exercise that firmed up the 'local' aspect (i.e. do not exceed x miles from your home). It would be annoying for some (myself included), but it's not forever and would remove the ambiguity around stuff like Johnson's bike ride.
Come to Wales, exercise starts and finishes at our front door, quite straightforward actually.
If people want to moan that they live in the middle of a city and can't get into the hills (which are only a few miles away after all and I drive further to the supermarket, blah, blah, blah), well that is tough.
I don't understand why there is such a fuss about people exercising again. I thought we'd learned from the first lockdown that transmission of the virus outside is considerably more difficult than inside. The number of infections from this source must be tiny. It is crowded indoor venues where the virus is mainly spread. Not so long ago people were being encouraged to exercise more to reduce obesity and prevent them from being badly affected if they caught Covid.
It seems to me there are much more obvious targets to address, supermarkets for a start. In the first lockdown they restricted the numbers entering and some had one way systems. Not anymore, now it is a complete free for all. I went to Tesco's the other and day it was chock a block.
I must admit i've pretty much breezed through the entire Coronavirus... obviously i've complied with everything and not put myself in harm's way... but i've never felt at risk as long as i'm sensible (benefit of being relatively young and healthy i guess).
But been in the supermarket a couple of times since new year and it is now one place i'm pretty hesitant to go to unless a complete necessity... absolutely packed. And in the week before xmas they were even worse.
I read once that there had been no case found of anyone catching Covid outdoors - but what have the facts got to do with anything?
And I shop pretty well every day in the Tesco in Ikley and I have only once seen one person without a mask in 10 months. It was so unusual I did a double-take.