Deb Burhinus
Used to be well known! 😎
But surely the car journey itself isn't the issue. The nearest place I can walk to from my home is a country park which is a magnet for walkers, dog walkers, mountain bikers etc. I will come into contact with far more people there than if I drove somewhere ten or fifteen minutes away. ...
The point of all this is to minimise contact between people. If driving somewhere allows me to do that, surely that is a good thing, as I'm less likely to contract the virus and bring it home to my family?
To me, this would only make sense if going outside was prohibited completely apart from essential trips to the supermarket etc.
Malcolm
Sorry Malcolm, while I see your frustration about these restrictions they really have to apply to everyone equally or it will simply be unsustainable. It’s hard enough for us to live under ‘lockdown’, ‘social distancing’ and ‘self-isolating’ without seeing one’s neighbours get into their nice Subara for a family jolly in the forest or driving off to do a day’s birdwatching ‘somewhere out of town’.
Some people, including BFers we’ve heard from, don’t even have an option of getting out of the Town/City (or even their front door!) (nor I might add, the option of stacking their car boot full of groceries while others can only carry a small shopping bag because they walked to their local shop!)
Given that many people gave up/made a decision not to have a car so the next generation of children might have a better chance at a healthy future, it’s a little like rubbing their noses in it now if every off-work person/families got their car out and took to the road - causing increased pollution and increased incidents of RTAs due to the excess of traffic - all because of people using their cars to ‘self-isolate’ so they can circumvent restrictions.
Bear a thought too, that extra traffic congestion means delays for our essential keyworkers getting to work, delays for army and emergency vehicles getting around and even more delays on top of the delays caused by the rapid increase of online deliveries (and could potentially even lead to a run on petrol.) (Just take a look at Snowdon last weekend when everyone had the same idea)
Why should you have more freedoms and suffer less than anyone else just because you have a car and want to go out and have fun?
Non-essential journeys is exactly that - please keep the roads clear for those that need them!