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Letter: The Virus Can Be Caught in the Countryside Too
Published on: 6 Apr, 2020
Updated on: 6 Apr, 2020
Closed off Surrey Wildlife/ Surrey County Council car parks
From: James Allen
In response to: Driving to Less Crowded Spaces for Exercise Should Be Permitted
I totally disagree with those who feel that driving to take a country walk is acceptable.
If you are infected with the virus and you drive, say five miles, to our Riverside Nature reserve, which has a metal gate, which you push open with your contaminated hand the infection is there for others to pick up for three days.
When someone else comes from five miles in the opposite direction and pushes the gate open with their hand they can become infected.
This pandemic can be spread by such indirect human contact. We do not know the cure and cannot see it.
No one should think, “I won’t get it in the countryside”.
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John Perkins
April 7, 2020 at 8:41 am
Most of the sites have no gates, and it’s always an option to use gloves or a tissue.
Editor’s note: I have found a short stick can be used to lift gate latches.
Peta Malthouse
April 7, 2020 at 3:56 pm
As is always the case one size does not fit all. In London, exercise spaces are the parks because it is a crowded conurbation.
A lot of our countryside is open and infrequently used… but you don’t always know until you get there.
Surely it is better to go somewhere where you have no chance of going within 6ft of another person. Pavements and footpaths make maintaining distance more difficult.
We all need to take care of ourselves and others. Each person that catches it passes it on to at least three others and they three more and so on. I live in the countryside and the pavement outside my home is now well-trod.
Stay safe and keep well.
Martin Elliott
April 8, 2020 at 4:10 pm
A countryside gate is hardly the smooth plastic or stainless steel in ideal incubator conditions that allowed the virus to live for three days.
As always it’s not just one number but the real information behind it in the peer-reviewed report or a tabloid press quote.