They were not excercising. Setting a poor example. Nip it in the bud.

Well done lads.

Martin

BCPROF.

FYI my wife and I practice social distancing and only visit shops to buy essentials.

We are using common sense in our approach.

I have NO time for idiot box tickers and jobsworths.

As I said, common sense is not that common.

Howard

Yes0, it was nice to be welcomed in the supermarket, ahead of everyone else, as Elderly (We are, combined age of 160!) But did he have to shout it out quite so loudly?

Have to admit, that in my 20s mortality never entered my mind. Now am sure that the future is shorter than it used to be. So make the most of it, if you can!  Just pleased not need a Zimmer frame yet!

Howard

maths never was my strong point

Edited By Howard Lewis on 05/04/2020 18:36:00

Howard I am afraid that I think you have completely failed to think this one through. A barbeque on a public beach is not in any way essential. There may have only been two people stupid enough to do that (is that a fact or a guess). But the government have issued an instruction, not a request and if the idiots in Brighton think that they are excluded then I can only shake my head in disbelief. I suppose that you also overlooked the fact that the police would have been inundated with calls from the majority of people that saw this act of gross stupidity taking place, and then of course there are the weak easily lead, who will think oh that must be alright for me to do because someone else is doing it. I hope the fine is as heavy as it can be.

I’m likely going ‘rolling’ tomorrow. Maybe ‘drilling’ instead.

I’m over 70 and my wife has no spleen, but I reckon that the farmer has to get the work done and it will be in thirty acre fields, so well away from anyone else.

It will get me out for a few hours, do my friend a huge favour (he might well have had to employ potentially covid19 workers to help on the farm at this fairly busy time and he, too, is over 70).

That and setting up reasonably sterile conditions for making NHS-compliant face mask frames means I reckon I am doing my bit, as safely as possible, even though the risk is marginally higher than just making the necessary shopping trip tomorrow evening.

It will also give me the opportunity, perhaps, to zero in my air rifle (after making a night-vision set-up for it these last few days).

Police were right to intervene. Otherwise, next week there would be hundreds doing the same trick. Are these people idiots, or what? They do not need their brains testing for any form of sensible operation. They don’t have one!

As someone posted somewhere else – think how stupid the average person can be, and then realise that half the population are below average…..

What part of 'Stay at home' did they not understand?

Country held to ransome by thick peasants.

Edited By Gaunless on 05/04/2020 19:47:16

I am not really into politics but what part of a military tactic is this then? It's really just taking sensible precautions, you may not know this but the virus has no means of self transporting or transmission, it needs a weak link, that's where the idiots on Brighton beach come in.

The government has certainly made some big mistakes and been slow to act, but I applaud the fact that they have not come down very heavy handed which they could have done. Instead they have allowed the media to show diluted updates about the virus and issued an instruction in a time of emergency, how thick do you have to be to still not understand it. there are some people who possibly will never actually grasp it unless they get the virus. Having now seen several people effectively drown while I stand by helpless to do any more for them I can't urge people enough to do their best and try to limit anything that might mean having contact with things outside the home.

I just wish that I went in to a ward tomorrow where people are not dying before they should do, not only dying but in a painful and distressing manner.

NDIY I can see nothing risky in what you are doing and you seem to have understood the risks and mitigated them.

There are far worse breaches of the lockdown rules going on than two people having a barbecue on a beach.

In my area, well over a dozen people are congregating several times a day to play basketball, smoke weed, and just hang out. Police intervention, such as it is, is failing to deter them.

I assume that these people are also the types who do not wear face masks or wash their hands as recommended by the authorities. It seems that the rules do not apply equally across the country.

In a news item earlier this week we saw two women heavily fined for making rail journeys without a valid reason, yet we now hear that an advisor to the Scottish Parliament and a labour MP both made journeys away from home and were only advised of their errors by the police. Surely if the laws are to be creditable and acceptable then they must be applied equally to everyone