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Are you following the Lockdown rules?

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  • #32
    dkd21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭dkd21


    I voted ''fully'' as in so far I have done the whole required self isolation but I do intend on getting out in the car once and go for a quiet drive in the local countryside to clear the head. I will not have any interaction with anything other than being inside my car by myself so I do think in situations like that it is ok and common sense should prevail


  • #33
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,783 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Lusocu wrote: »
    "Exercise" or getting out because you fancy some air

    Exercise was specifically provided for so yes you can adhere fully and get some "brief individual exercise - within 2 kilometres of your house"


  • #34
    SusanC10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SusanC10


    Question on the 2km Exercise Rule.

    Can someone drive say 1km from their home, park and then walk all within a 2km radius? Or must they leave home on foot ?


  • #35
    Aquals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭Aquals


    The rules say that it must all be "within 2km of your home."


  • #36
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,783 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    SusanC10 wrote: »
    Question on the 2km Exercise Rule.

    Can someone drive say 1km from their home, park and then walk all within a 2km radius? Or must they leave home on foot ?

    I don't think they have gone into specifics but the intent is to limit the distance from home so I wouldn't have thought driving and then walking would be against it though why would you drive 1km to go walking from there?


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  • #37
    never_mind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭never_mind


    I am following it apart from once a week when I drive 40k to see my dad who is in a vulnerable group. I buy him shopping and chat to him in his garden. Apart from that I sometimes go to the shop to get myself smokes but only go late at night.


  • #38
    hurikane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭hurikane


    Following 100%.

    To the group of 5 middle aged cyclists I saw today. You’re a group of arseholes.


  • #39
    never_mind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭never_mind


    hurikane wrote: »
    Following 100%.

    To the group of 5 middle aged cyclists I saw today. You’re a group of arseholes.

    Pfft. How do you know they don’t live together?


  • #40
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    I don't think they have gone into specifics but the intent is to limit the distance from home so I wouldn't have thought driving and then walking would be against it though why would you drive 1km to go walking from there?

    The drive is non-essential travel. It is not covered by the intent of the restrictions, so not in compliance.


  • #41
    hurikane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭hurikane


    never_mind wrote: »
    Pfft. How do you know they don’t live together?

    Pffffffft. I live in a rural area. I can see 2km up and down the road from my gate. They are not neighbours of mine.

    Pfffft.


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  • #42
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    I am encountering more cyclists on footpaths now, fairly annoying but not unexpected.


  • #43
    never_mind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭never_mind


    hurikane wrote: »
    Pffffffft. I live in a rural area. I can see 2km up and down the road from my gate. They are not neighbours of mine.

    Pfffft.
    Then call the guards and stop complaining online. Holier than thou attitude is becoming monotonous and boring. People need to get a life and focus on what THEY can control and stop filling boards with more negativity.


  • #44
    hurikane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭hurikane


    never_mind wrote: »
    Then call the guards and stop complaining online. Holier than thou attitude is becoming monotonous and boring. People need to get a life and focus on what THEY can control and stop filling boards with more negativity.

    Pffft. Only negativity I see is yours.

    Filling boards with negativity. :D

    Pfft


  • #45
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    never_mind wrote: »
    Then call the guards and stop complaining online. Holier than thou attitude is becoming monotonous and boring. People need to get a life and focus on what THEY can control and stop filling boards with more negativity.

    This is a thread about compliance / non-compliance. Move along if you have a problem with discussing the topic to hand.


  • #46
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,783 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    The drive is non-essential travel. It is not covered by the intent of the restrictions, so not in compliance.

    The guidance was you could leave your home for brief individual exercise, within 2km.

    They're driving to exercise. It will be within the 2km. If they need to drive to facilitate exercise within the 2km radius.

    It's essentially no different to walking the 1km to so some form of exercise that you can't do on a path.


  • #47
    never_mind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭never_mind


    hurikane wrote: »
    Pffft. Only negativity I see is yours.

    Filling boards with negativity. :D

    Pfft

    Pffft.

    And I’ll post wherever I want and am actually on-topic but I leave ye to this FASCINATING discussion!!


  • #48
    hurikane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭hurikane


    never_mind wrote: »
    Pffft.

    And I’ll post wherever I want and am actually on-topic but I leave ye to this FASCINATING discussion!!

    Stop embarrassing yourself.


  • #49
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    The guidance was you could leave your home for brief individual exercise, within 2km.

    They're driving to exercise. It will be within the 2km. If they need to drive to facilitate exercise within the 2km radius.

    It's essentially no different to walking the 1km to so some form of exercise that you can't do on a path.

    As I said, that is not the intent. If people want to play silly buggers with ‘loopholes’ they won’t be stopped.


  • #50
    never_mind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭never_mind


    hurikane wrote: »
    Stop embarrassing yourself.

    Soz think I might be cracking up.


  • #51
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,783 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    As I said, that is not the intent. If people want to play silly buggers with ‘loopholes’ they won’t be stopped.

    What element of the intent does it go against?

    If they need to drive 1km in the car, to be able to exercise, how does it go against the guidance which is to limit the potential for transmission of the virus?

    It's not a loophole.


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  • #52
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    What element of the intent does it go against?

    If they need to drive 1km in the car, to be able to exercise, how does it go against the guidance which is to limit the potential for transmission of the virus?

    It's not a loophole.

    Driving is not exercise. Driving to somewhere to exercise is not exercise. I put ‘loophole’ in quotes because it is someone playing silly buggers attempting to come up with an excuse.


  • #53
    This is it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭This is it


    I work in what's classed as an "essential" service but thankfully I've not had to leave the house yet. Since the lockdown, or whatever you want to call it, I've been to the shops twice. Developed a cough on Wednesday/Thursday. Probably nothing and no other symptoms but I'll be spending most of the next 10 days or so confined to a single room.


  • #54
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    This is it wrote: »
    I work in what's classed as an "essential" service but thankfully I've not had to leave the house yet. Since the lockdown, or whatever you want to call it, I've been to the shops twice. Developed a cough on Wednesday/Thursday. Probably nothing and no other symptoms but I'll be spending most of the next 10 days or so confined to a single room.

    With a bucket or bed pan.


  • #55
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,783 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Driving is not exercise. Drinking to somewhere to exercise is not exercise. I put ‘loophole’ in quotes because it is someone playing silly buggers attempting to come up with an excuse.

    I asked for what part of the intent it goes against. In what way does it increase the risk of transmission.

    I'm not trying to be a contrarian...maybe I'm missing something but I don't think it goes against it. That's all.


  • #56
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    I asked for what part of the intent it goes against. In what way does it increase the risk of transmission.

    I'm not trying to be a contrarian...maybe I'm missing something but I don't think it goes against it. That's all.

    The intent was to be in your home unless you needed to be out of it based on the listed set exceptions. Brief exercise is an exception. Driving somewhere for brief exercise is not an exception.


  • #57
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,783 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    The intent was to be in your home unless you needed to be out of it based on the listed set exceptions. Brief exercise is an exception. Driving somewhere for brief exercise is not an exception.

    Yes, they are going out to exercise. Driving to a point within the 2km doesn't go against that. It doesn't create a greater risk of transmission which is the fundamental reason.

    Is exercise limited to walking as well? Where I used to live, the house was on a terrace with no garden and on a road . If I'd had a child when I was there, would I not be allowed to drive them to the green area for exercise or would I have to tell them that they would have to walk up and down the street?


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,853 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I am when I can but I’m working so I can’t really help with all this.
    I’d call into a shop early morning maybe one day a week on my way to work to replenish a few bits. On the weekends I never exercised so I’ve no intention of starting now in an act of defiance like a lot of people are. Maybe I will if I end up not working.


  • #59
    SusanC10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SusanC10


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    The intent was to be in your home unless you needed to be out of it based on the listed set exceptions. Brief exercise is an exception. Driving somewhere for brief exercise is not an exception.

    Which is a pity. Where we live the road immediately outside is not safe for walking especially with the Kids. However if I drive a short distance, the footpath starts and a short walking loop is possible. According to the 2kmfromhome App thing - all of this is within 2km.

    I have been exercising using my husband's exercise equipment and doing some gardening.

    I haven't left home from March 12th until today when I cracked and drove to the Bottle Bank alone. Which is against the rules.


  • #60
    the14thwarrior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 428 ✭✭the14thwarrior


    i'm front line so go to work, come home, stay in, repeat. stand at front door and get shoes off. leave outside. go straight up to change and shower.
    i have a 90 year old dad at home
    can only go shops late evening , sometimes things are gone.
    pain in the arse.
    he has not left house in four weeks.

    don't want to leave the house for any other reason than above.


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  • #61
    deise08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭deise08


    Yep. I've rediscovered my wii and wii fit board. 😊


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