Quote Originally Posted by Muddy Retriever View Post
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 guess the fuss is more around people travelling to exercise, not the exercise itself. In many ways I agree with you as it seems unlikely transmission would take place in the outdoors (are there any recorded instances of this even?), but I can see the sense in reasonable* restrictions to people's movements as part of a bigger push to encourage folk to reduce contact/transmission points as much as possible. It's an attempt to instill a mentality where we all stay at home as much as we can, and exercising only from our front door seems a logical extension to that in order to give a clear message. It lacks nuance, but it's probably safer overall.

*Obviously the reasonableness of restrictions will be subjective!