What will you do ?

[jwpzx9r]

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/drive-exercise-walk-dog-uk-coronavirus-lockdown-rules-driving-explained-2519644

Have another news source that says it's fine.  Down to individual discretion I suppose.  Clearly, if I drove somewhere to walk the dog and there were loads of people I wouldn't stop.  But from what I'm hearing from locals, the seafront between Hastings and Bexhill is quiet.

If it was only the individual taking the walk that was the only person at risk! After you have your walk you strut down to tesco... some other supermarket and transmit anything you may have picked up to others Some people do deserve what may come to them ... unfortunately in the course of getting their comeuppance  they may well take others with them.

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Just thought I would add to the dog walking debate. At this moment in time in France nobody is allowed to walk outwith a radius of 1km of their own house and even then not for more than one Earth hour. Of course the Chinese will be confusedly  saying ... walk the dog??? Don't you mean Wok the dog! 

 

[El Spavo]

Nothing like a bit of lazy racism on a Friday evening.

 

[jwpzx9r]

Racism?... Nah mate you know nowt that is absolute fact... how do you think we got where we are? If it upsets yer we F'n brain turn it off!

 

[Bebo]

If it was only the individual taking the walk that was the only person at risk! After you have your walk you strut down to tesco... some other supermarket and transmit anything you may have picked up to others Some people do deserve what may come to them ... unfortunately in the course of getting their comeuppance  they may well take 

Haven't been to a supermarket in a fortnight, don't intend to go for at least a fortnight. Maybe a bit less vin rouge before posting?

 

[jwpzx9r]

Anybody who thinks because they think they know better deserves anything that is coming their way... the unfortunate thing is that they will take up the valuable time of people, and very importantly equipment, in the health care system that could really be doing without trying to help an imbecile.

 

[El Spavo]

Racism?... Nah mate you know nowt that is absolute fact... how do you think we got where we are? If it upsets yer we F'n brain turn it off!

Anyone else understand what the blinking flip they're on about?! Me neither.

 

[philpot]

Well I am still going out to enjoy myself............................got the kayak out today to try for a catfish.



Phil

 

[jwpzx9r]

Honestly Spain has 830 deaths overnight and some on here think that it is OK to drive to another spot and walk out just because you feel like it!

 

[TheSherriff70]

Honestly Spain has 830 deaths overnight and some on here think that it is OK to drive to another spot and walk out just because you feel like it!

You made your point, but the government guidelines are as follows......

I am happy that my 1.6 miles isn’t travelling unnecessarily, to avoid people and protect somebody who is at risk.

 

[schmokinn]

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/drive-exercise-walk-dog-uk-coronavirus-lockdown-rules-driving-explained-2519644

Have another news source that says it's fine.  Down to individual discretion I suppose.  Clearly, if I drove somewhere to walk the dog and there were loads of people I wouldn't stop.  But from what I'm hearing from locals, the seafront between Hastings and Bexhill is quiet.

This idiocy makes other people think they can do it to,grow up and think of the effect on others rather than being selfish and stamping your feet.

Our police force,not the media is constantly saying that if you go for a walk you do so from your home....you do not drive to do it!

 

[ColinD]

Haven't been to a supermarket in a fortnight, don't intend to go for at least a fortnight. Maybe a bit less vin rouge before posting?

I think your going to run out of supplies before this lot is over

 

[Wonko the Sane]

Don't you mean Wok the dog! 

Wasn't that a pop tune in the 60's or 70's  ---  Justa Woking the Dog?  Quite popular in the nudie dancer bars as I recall.  Of course I was just told about it, never actually saw it.

 

[Bebo]

I think your going to run out of supplies before this lot is over

Wouldn't bank on it. I have two large freezers with lots of meat and fish and a very well stocked larder of non-perishables. All without any panic buying, I just tend to buy meat in bulk from the farm and over buy non-perishables when they are reduced. Got chickens, so don't buy eggs anyway. Once weekly walk to the village shop for milk, bread and a top up of whatever random veg they have has sufficed for the last two weeks. I started social distancing a week before Boris imposed it as the writing was on the wall. Company I'm a Director of told all our staff to work from home from Monday before last as well. Responsible thing to do as as an office based employer.

 

[ColinD]

All our managers are working from home too, trouble is I can't and what gets me are all these company managers saying it's the responsible thing to do while not giving us any company guidlines or risk ascessment, just read the governments guidlines on how to stay safe out there, with no sanitiser/paper roll/limited masks, and customers saying their not contagious and have no signs and some engineers reporting the whole house to couging like mad in the other room when you get there. Not good when you are required to work out of area and sent to a hotspot of Covid19 from a relativly low one, talk about leading from the front

 

[Bebo]

All of our staff are office based, so we've told them all to stay at home and put all the necessary IT in place so that they can do it.  Two weeks ago we sent a few people home in Ubers with their desktop PCs and two monitors, because the work they do is much more difficult on a single screen laptop.  For the industry I work in there have been some guidelines produced for when you absolutely need to do site visits, but those are all outside in the open air without having to meet anyone so they are very low risk anyway.

I would have expected your employers to produce a risk assessment for you, to provide appropriate PPE and guidance on how to make best use of it for their claim at being responsible to be valid.

 

[ColinD]

Still waiting on that, it's not like they are a small company, I can't name for obvious reasons, but they are a large international company which should do better.

When we ask about the company risk ascessment, we are sent a copy of the governments guidlines and told we are a essential business. hope the union rember that one when the pay negotiation come round again

 

[Westward]

There's certainly a lot less traffic around but I am amazed at the number of people out "exercising", including some people I know personally who wouldn't normally walk 20yds if they could drive it. To be fair, most are keeping their distance - apart from youngsters - and appear to be enjoying the new experience of getting to the supermarket on foot.

 

[Bebo]

Still waiting on that, it's not like they are a small company, I can't name for obvious reasons, but they are a large international company which should do better.

When we ask about the company risk ascessment, we are sent a copy of the governments guidlines and told we are a essential business. hope the union rember that one when the pay negotiation come round again

Not good.  I would have thought big companies would be more on top of that sort of thing than small ones like mine.

 

[ColinD]

Don't get me wrong. they have moved everyone they can to home working, it's very hard to do that in the field. A lot of engineers feel they are just quoting government guidlines to carry on.

We will see this coming week if anything has changed, like being told you need to work 40miles away from your normal area, to an area were most enginners are off sick and Covid19 stats high because work is piling up, then next day working in a area that has low Covid19 cases, seems a ideal way of spreading it imho even when as per guidlines wash your hands and the 2m rule.

 

[Luke_(NL)]

Given that the gun's not otherwise employed, I figured that I'd do a proper re-finishing. I'm letting each coat dry before the next grit of emery paper: tedious but hopefully this will yield good results. Am not usually inclined just to let gun parts sit about for days on end, so at least there's that. Plenty of downsides to this covid-misery, but by the time we get back to shooting at least it will look right again.