General Chat

Along with a lot of other people I think there will be a strict lockdown in a day or 2 so for goodness how long so all selfish and arrogant people that think it isn’t important to obey the rules please prove me wrong and stay indoors and and obey the rules, that way we can all have a good 2021. <3

Go out of your house on foot to exercise, not in a vehicle to a park to exercise, stop bending the rules to suit yourselves, I’ve seen it happen,, there shouldn’t be a lot of traffic on the roads.

RTR, I think what ZZzzzz meant was stay in your own home and not let others into yours or for yourself to visit others. Of course you can go outside in your own garden for fresh air, thats common sense. However driving to a beauty spot for a walk in the hills is strictly not allowed!

Florence in the hebrides

Florence, I respectfully say that people obey the rules including those that put other people’s life at risk, I obey the rules so otters should too. Simples. I’m not having a go at you Florence x.

A senior doctor at UCHLondon has said that those people not wearing masks etc have “blood on their hands”
Unfortunately those morons probably won’t notice.

RTR you don’t know what sort of dwelling I live in, maybe you should get out of your ivory tower and into the real world.
I expect you will report me now

We have all seen over the last 9 months that some people believe that permission to drive somewhere for exercise meant that they could drive for hours, go anywhere, as long as they claim it is for exercise. :-P

I hate to put up links, but scroll down this item from September to see the bubble you ACTUALLY have!


https://www.nsd.org/northshore-learns/updates/message/~board/superintendent-blog/post/covid-weekly-update-september-25-2020

A well done graphic.

Wish I had that when trying to explain to someone that you have to trust that the other person in your bubble isn’t also in another one.

Here our tiers are not quite the same as yours and we have been told that, although almost the whole country is in tier 4, we should not drive out of our own council area.

So If I want I can drive for about 3 hours in one direction but only about ½ hour in the other!! :-) :-)

I do feel for anyone that doesn't have a garden right now, it does make a big difference. Yes you can go to a park etc but then you're forced to be near others to some degree.
Walking the dog I'm out and about all day anyway, when we had our first really nice weather day back in Spring suddenly you couldn't move for people walking around the streets and to the parks.

I find that latter mention of people walking funny, Caroline.

I hate walking for walking's sake and I'd rather put some music on and dance around the house but we live a few doors along from a park (we can see the edge of it) and, since March, many's the time I've seen people walking whom I've never spotted passing our house before. My daughter lives right opposite the park at the other side across from us and she tells me there have been more people jogging around its perimeter than she has ever seen before.

They may well never walk past our window or jog around the park again once everything is opened up! So, if they don't continue to walk and jog after we reach the other side of covid, will their health be adversely affected then? Weird, innit?

Half an hour. That is a long drive. Three minutes one way, Five minutes another way. Then just about half an hour max the other 2 ways.

It's only about 4 miles in a straight line, but it is impossible to drive anywhere in the west of Scotland in a straight line. Unless you have an amphibious vehicle!

Having said that, Argyll is a big county, even without including the Isle of Bute.

ZZZzzz i didnt think for a moment you were having a go at me, I was just trying to defend you!

Noone actually needs to drive anywhere to exercise, even if you dont have a garden, you can walk around the block where you live. During the first lockdown, i used to walk for 15 minutes along the main road, turn around and walk back. That was my 30 mins of exercise I had to do.

You do not have to drive to a forest or the beach to exercise contrary to what some people think!

Florence in the hebrides.

I’m glad you read it that way Florence, and we did and do our 20 minute walk when we can usually before anyone else is out and about but there are those that put lives at risk because they think they can do want they want by bending the rules to suit themselves. xx. Stay safe.

JoyLouise...sadly very true...for weeks the dog walkers were the only people out all the time..people said they seriously considered getting a dog for an excuse to walk! Then literally one afternoon I go out walking the dog and the streets were packed, the park was packed!! I walked down the middle to miss everyone thank goodness no real traffic :-D
All summer and even now there's enough walking/running that you'll meet up somewhere but usually enough space to distance. I walked every summer evening with a friend me on one side of the road her on the other...2 reasons one to socially distance she has a heart problem doesn't want to get sick....two you can't walk in the middle of the road when there's traffic...we got very good at almost yelling to talk to each other. We see others walking close to each other sometimes with masks but it's not the best even outside better safe than sorry.
Right off for a walk now before the snowstorm hits enjoy! :-D

So they drive to exercise in a park thus causing the health risk, wherever you are there is a likelihood of being robbed.

Even if I have been out for permitted appointments and I am masked and the clinic I am attending are all masked and gowned I still get worried if I may have picked COVID up

Having to go to the hospital last week for an eye clinic referral I was really don’t want to go but I need to for a diagnosis and possible treatment option

Was impressed the way it was all organised but still spent a few days after hoping for no symptoms


I am self isolating and getting my groceries delivered every week .

I will certainly take up the offer of the vaccine when it’s offered

I do not wear a mask because of health issues AND serious Claustrophobia, & comments like those from the UCLH London doctor are disgusting!
He is accusing ALL the NON wearing mask people "murderers".

I live in a rural area with no immediate neighbours so we don't see anyone outside our home, my hubby & I go for our grocery shop once a week, (he does wear a mask ) we shopvery soon after the store opens so there are few people around, & most wear a mask, but there are members of staff NOT wearing masks!!

I do not have a problem with that as I know from my own problems that they too might also have health issues.
My hubby does wear a mask but it's not an easy for him as his glasses steam up & finds it hard going when walking around with his walking stick as his mask tends to obstruct his "pathway".

He is 78 & has fallen a couple of times recently at home without a mask on, & that's why I worry about him falling in the shop WITH a mask on, something he almost did recently when he didn't notice something on the floor'

No-one is going to compensate him (or me) should he fall & seriously hurt himself or worse die as a result because of wearing a mask! WHO is going to have blood on their hands then if that was to happen!

That UCHL london Dr should think before opening his / her BIG accusing mouth!!

Joan.