Ten things you're allowed to go outside for (during lockdown)

[Amity Island]

Only just found this out today.🙄 Is this for real??? I've not heard anything about it....

Now guidelines to police in England say the public can drive to the countryside to go for a walk, as long as they spend more time walking than driving.

Exercise more than once a day.

People who go out to exercise are allowed to stop to take a short break.

There is no need for your shopping trip to be only for essential goods such as food - you are allowed to nip to the shops to buy items such as alcohol and luxury items.

And you can make a quick trip to the shop to buy small amounts of a 'staple item', such as a newspaper, pet food, a loaf of bread or a pint of milk.

People are also be able to go out to pick up surplus food from a friend or to collect food from a takeaway.

Ten things you're allowed to do outside in lockdown - like drive to countryside

Police in England have been told you're allowed to attend funerals, pop to the shops for wine, stop for lunch on a long walk, and take your pet to the vet under the UK's coronavirus lockdown rules

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[Clairejcannon]

So really, we're allowed to do what we want?? Absolute madness!

 

[trophywench]

No - cos we can only paint our fences, not our kitchens.

I'm struggling to work out if we are allowed to buy ceiling paper for our living room which only hasn't been done as yet despite having got all the paint ages since, cos just on it Pete was hospitalised and diagnosed with COPD, hence he's been backward in coming forward and getting on with it - up and down a single stepladder, both pasting and hanging said paper solo, meanwhile he ain't getting any younger and of course still has the collarbone that he broke whenever it was he came off the Blackbird and broke 5 ribs etc. Collarbone that side is still in 2 pieces.

Anyway Big daughter says she'll paperhang the ceiling as long as Little sister strips it. (both over 40 LOL)

Weirdest ceiling either of us have ever lived with. Joins 100% invisible at first just as they should be, but have all gradually moved apart, and not when it has been repainted or anything of the kind. Potty.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

The best advice is only to go out if you have to and if you can avoid it, or arrange matters to avoid several separate trips... so much the better.

Of course we could all just decide to go out as if nothing was different this year... mix and mingle... arrange a street party... and see if any of that behaviour was frowned on by the authorities (police in Manchester are breaking up large scale parties) but...

why?

why do that?

I cannot know if one of my ‘rule abiding‘ trips to the supermarket has infected me with Covid-19 which is now merrily brewing away, and will be for 5-7 days asymptomatically... which means that any extra trips I choose to make puts more people at risk... Even though I’m being careful and keeping my distance.

The movement restrictions are working - but only because people on the whole are choosing to abide by them.

 

[trophywench]

Yep.