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Your interpretation of non-essential "leaving the house" acceptability parameters

Which of the following should be considered, assuming social distancing observed

  • Length of time is not a determining factor

    Votes: 19 40.4%

  • Length of time is a determining factor (ie regardless of other factors, there is a maximum)

    Votes: 27 57.4%

  • Distance from home is not a determining factor

    Votes: 9 19.1%

  • Distance from home is a determining factor (ie regardless of other factors, there is a maximum)

    Votes: 36 76.6%

  • Activity whilst out (walking/running/excercise/sitting/lying) is not a determining factor

    Votes: 10 21.3%

  • Activity whilst out is a determining factor (ie regardless of other factors, some activities not OK)

    Votes: 31 66.0%

  • Mode of transport (foot, bicycle, motor vehicle) is not a determining factor

    Votes: 14 29.8%

  • Mode of transport is a determining factor (ie regardless of other factors, some modes not OK)

    Votes: 27 57.4%
  • Total voters
    47
bimble said:
Off topic but whilst we are here arguing, what is the hive mind view on this:
Last weeks supermarket trip I picked up a bag of frozen chips, looked again and they were the skinny ones and so I wanted to put them down again and pick up the chunky ones. Boyfriend quietly lost it with me saying that no way should I be touching anything and not then buying it , so I have had stupid skinny chips all week. Is that reasonable or too much?
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Would germs actually last for long on a packet of frozen food?
 
MickiQ said:
Doesn't bother me in the slightest, I would probably have no problem justifying it to myself either, I was canvassing general opinion. To be honest I would be more interested in learning about who might have bought the house (assuming that it doesn't fall through due the lurgy) than any moralising about whether he shoulfd be there.
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Why are you canvassing opinion though if not to determine how to judge them? :D
I mean if it hadn't bothered you, you'd not have registered it enough to mention it.

However appealing constructing kangaroo courts to advertise our own superior morality may be...we are not the jury...we are all the people. Judge not lest...
 
I've only been out to shop for essentials. I don't normally go out for exercise every day, I normally exercise indoors (my work is indoors and light manual, I can do similar levels of exercise at home when I am not working) so to start going out for 1 hour a day to exercise now we are in lockdown and possibly come into contact with more people than I would normally would be really stupid and really shitty even if the government had said it was ok.
 
This looks like a sort of progress, Victoria park is reopening after being shut for 2 weeks but with the council having a bunch of control measures and clear rules in place for what you can and can’t do in the park. No cycling unless you’re under 12 years old, benches will be cordoned off etc.
Why they are reducing opening hours I dunno though that bit seems silly.

Victoria Park

www.towerhamlets.gov.uk
 
lazythursday said:
This if-you-touch-it-you-buy-it new social etiquette completely fucks over those of us with food allergies and intolerances who have to spend half our lives squinting at ingredients lists.
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As with anything the caveat 'where possible' should be applied.

I saw an elderly woman fall over in the supermarket the other day. Two metres went straight out the window and the nearest person to her rushed straight over to help. That was obviously the correct thing to do, despite being the Wrong Thing To Do.
 
SpookyFrank said:
As with anything the caveat 'where possible' should be applied.

I saw an elderly woman fall over in the supermarket the other day. Two metres went straight out the window and the nearest person to her rushed straight over to help. That was obviously the correct thing to do,
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Not necessarily
 
teuchter said:
Not necessarily
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Yeah well nobody is gonna stand there and weigh it up are they? It's a natural reaction, to help someone in distress. No point going to all this trouble to save humans if we stop being human in the process.
 
SpookyFrank said:
I saw an elderly woman fall over in the supermarket the other day. Two metres went straight out the window and the nearest person to her rushed straight over to help. That was obviously the correct thing to do, despite being the Wrong Thing To Do.
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If you touched her, you have to take her home with you. She's your gran now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
 
Image below is from my walk to work... the guy centre is a few meters behind the others, who are in a group of 4. They work at the construction site you can see in the picture... there were also a few workers sitting about in groups. I actually don’t particularly blame them, their site manager should have some kind of code of conduct in place. They’re walking back from the local Tesco. This is a new residential area, changing from light industry... students and young professionals for the most part.

There are many points of contact here, and this is kind of what I meant when I was saying that quibbling over the niceties of actions within government restrictions is a little pointless. There is a lot of this going on. And yeah, we still need to be responsible, and to be seen to be responsible; don’t go out except where allowed, observe distancing, don’t be a twat and think sunbathing is just fine. But, if there’s serious transmission happening, it’s stuff like this, not someone who spends an hour longer on the bike than they should.

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