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Coronavirus and fishing (1,184 posts / 72,937 views)
Halfcentury
Posts: 1,284
Post #332 30 Mar 2020 13:05
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Always a few greedy beggars. Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle. Everybody needs to stay at home. Fishing is not a vital or essential activity.
Goose Goose
Posts: 12,901
Post #333 30 Mar 2020 13:13
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Thing is he knows you are allowed one hours exircise in the same place and travelling is only for essential's, this is so when we are locked down for months members can't get a refund as he will claim he was open.
NemesisWitch NemesisWitch
Posts: 1,423
Post #334 30 Mar 2020 13:28
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And if ever anyone was in doubt that RH was a money grabbing low life tool with no-ones interest apart from his own, there's the evidence.
Absolute cnut.
dannyuk32 dannyuk32
Posts: 1,477
Post #335 30 Mar 2020 18:10
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If people keep their distance and use common sense, so what?
Fishing can continue, more son on club and syndicate waters, if people use their common sense.
Try and be a bit more open minded.
blackfield blackfield
Posts: 2,651
Post #336 30 Mar 2020 18:21
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I'm gonna take a different view on this..... ok, the journey may be non essential. However, what's the difference between travelling to a lake in car than travelling to the supermarket for food? Much more likely to encounter covid 19 there than at a syndicate lake. That said one would hope anyone with symptoms wouldn't venture out. People much more likely to go for supplies with symptoms. Fishing might not be exercise, but it is leisure.
May not be the most popular view, but consider this. You don't manage risk by adding more risk. Does someone who goes fishing on a lake with restricted access add more risk to the current situation?
NemesisWitch NemesisWitch
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Post #337 30 Mar 2020 18:26
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Yes. They travel. Chance of an accident. Possible clogging up of roads. Use of emergency services. Picking up infection from petrol pump etc etc etc etc. Very different to essential shopping for food/survival.
It is not exercise. This has been confirmed. Anyone that goes is a ****, end of.
You've correctly said you don't manage risk with more risk. 100% agree.... And there is more risk going out than staying at home. It is not necessarily the fishing per ser that adds the risk, it is the activities that surround it, that do. And if everyone took the same view, then we are f ked...
Halfcentury
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Post #338 30 Mar 2020 18:35
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In answer to 335 and 336. Going fishing is not an essential journey. It a selfish and spoiled self indulgence in a time of national emergency that is causing hundreds of deaths and will cause thousands/tens of thousands more. I despair of the nitwits who share our society.
NemesisWitch NemesisWitch
Posts: 1,423
Post #339 30 Mar 2020 18:37
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Open minded. Oh ffs. You have been told to stay at home. You know better eh? Imagine if everyone thought like you... Who defines exactly which Fisheries are 'safe'? Its not just angling, any group could throw up the same argument.
feudefer feudefer
Posts: 408
Post #340 30 Mar 2020 18:47
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The simplest instruction ever to save lives, stay at home and still people question it. It's pretty easy, the quicker people screw the nut the quicker some semblance of normality will resume.
Goose Goose
Posts: 12,901
Post #341 30 Mar 2020 18:55
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Waisting your time mate, it would appear some anglers are just as selfish as the greed driven ones keeping venues open.
So how many members does for example RH on each sindycate? And how many swims? Pound to a pinch members outnumber swim by some margin so if all these take him at his word as open and turn up then what happens?
tonymartin
Posts: 143
Post #342 30 Mar 2020 18:59
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It isn't really as simple as it sounds though is it? After all we are humans, not robots. We aren't meant to be sat in a small box 24/7, especially, in some cases, all alone.

If this goes on for longer than 3 weeks, I can see people becoming very tired of it...
Halfcentury
Posts: 1,284
Post #343 30 Mar 2020 19:02
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Nobody said it would be a doddle but it is REALLY simple. Stay at home.
Tinhead Tinhead
Posts: 17,089
Post #344 30 Mar 2020 19:10
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I'm tired of it after a week and very soon I'm going to get extremely tired of it but it's something we need to do.
blackfield blackfield
Posts: 2,651
Post #345 30 Mar 2020 19:14
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In reply to Post #337
I disagree. It's about reducing contact with people. Anyone, anywhere can have an accident. Risk cannot be eliminated. You reduce it and minimise it. A handful of healthy anglers visiting a limited access lake does not increase risk of transmission to others. It's not a social gathering, which is what the travel restrictions are aimed at.

People going about daily business is a much bigger risk. Anyone going out with symptoms.... now that's irresponsible.

tonymartin
Posts: 143
Post #346 30 Mar 2020 19:16
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Playing devil's advocate here; do you (or anyone) think you could do this for, say, 12weeks?
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