But you don't have to drive to go outside. You may have to drive to go somewhere more intersting, more beautiful etc but you can walk along the street.
The biggest issue with driving elsewhere to go walking is that increases the radius of movement of people. A virus cannot move itself, it is moved by people. Therefore going to a completely different area for your walk or going shopping several miles away (when there are several other supermarkets in between not when it's miles to the nearest one) increases the potential for spread and can seed new clusters in new areas.
You might I cannot, I live at the top of a hill, if I walk in either direction I have to go downhill, I have a medical problem, we have a 16 year old disabled granddaughter who is living with us and my wife has asthma now you tell me how the three of us can go out for exercise by walking along the street.-
A) the pavement is not wide enough to walk 3 abreast and my granddaughter requires both myself and my wife either side to allow her to walk.
B) even at 6 a.m. there are pedestrians walking up and down the street.
C) as I stated we live at the top of a hill and I cannot afford to strain myself at this time trying to push her back up the hill
Now tell me I drive to a remote deserted old railway track bed not to exercise but drive to go somewhere more interesting, more beautiful etc!
Cheers
Guy
Guy, there are always extenuating circumstances and people will empathise with that.
However, when you have two perfectly healthy young women, who do not live together but do ‘train’ together who are perfectly capable of walking/running from their home but choose to drive to a location in order to ‘train’ ie run and you see them every day when they huff and puff past you you can see how it becomes rather annoying. That’s not counting the same cars with dog letter outers, we don’t call them walkers, because all they do is let the dog out to foul and then go home again, you can time your watch by most of them, then that makes you angry 😡
I’m sorry to say there are more people like them than there are like you and your wife and I appreciate your dilemma.
I am sorry Suey but we have had to put up with such distaste that prompted me to post for years but has got worse lately. People have stopped us in parks saying we are cruel forcing her to walk and that she should be allowed to sit in her wheelchair. It got so bad a few years ago I got her consultant to write and sign a note giving her daily exercise requirements as she needs daily physical activity/exercise as primary prevention against 35 chronic conditions later in life.
In a similar way you do not know what hidden disabilities either or both of those young ladies you describe have not every disability is visible, take epilepsy a person can be fit and healthy looking one minute and totally helpless and near death's door the next, it is such lack of understanding that makes life so difficult for them not the illness itself.
Please don't judge people when you do not the full circumstances involved, let's all live and let live
Cheers
Guy
