The Coronavirus Chronicles -Three Strikes You're Out

[Henrik_imp]

I get what you are saying Ferret, and I am pretty sure you also get what I am saying. I too would love to go for a ride, and honestly with the wonderful weather we have had over the past two weeks I have been extremely tempted to do it.

Now I personally do not need my government to tell me specifically what I can or cannot do. I am able to apply a certain level of logic under the current circumstance, and if they say that it is safe for me to travel to a park I will still choose not to for two main reasons. The first is the journey, as I am exposing myself unnecessarily to the dangers of an accident. I am not concerned about contracting the virus while riding however, but I would then be concerned about that once at the destination as any social gathering will increase the risk of being infected. Maybe to stop to use the restroom, or cross a jogger who passes a bit too closely to you etc.

Also, apartment or three bedroom house on 5 acres makes a huge difference! On your five acres you are able to go outside, take walks or even jog on the open without coming in to the contact with anybody. You are not confined within a closed space. Having been confined to a small apartment during a war in my youth, and can assure you that having the freedom now to go out in my garden whenever I want to without any risk changes everything! Yes it would be great to also see a different scenery from time to time, but being confined with 5 acres around you even for two or three months is completely different, and way batter, than being confined in an apartment for the same period of time. A few months of riding is not really that bad.

Finally, I live at the foot of the most popular motorcycle road in the area. In the last couple of weeks, with the beautiful weather a combined with many people not going to work, has led to there being a quite large number of motorcycle riders coming by here every day. Normally it is only like that on the weekends, but now it is every day. And every day there are at least two ambulances that have been going up that road to pick up some over enthusiastic rider. I for one do not believe that is helping the situation one bit.

In the end, we will all decide to do what we want. Yes, there are many other people that are not out riding motorcycles who are engaging in dangerous behaviour that either helps overload the medical services, or increases the rate of transmission of the virus. I disagree with all of that behaviour, I just raised the motorcycle riding part on here as it is a motorcycle forum. I am looking forward to a time, hopefully in just a couple of months, when this crisis has subsided to an extent where I can again go riding with my conscious free.