In favour of allowing travel over a wider area

I wish people to be allowed greater freedom to move around the country, especially if they travel in their own private car. At first this would cover travel from your home and back in a single day. This is particularly important for those of us who are not in paid employment as treating us differently could be interpreted as discrimination.



Why the contribution is important

I understand the stay at home message as it is easy to deliver and reinforce, but actually moving about outside my home will not give me Covid 19. What will give me Covid 19 is being in contact with other people who are carrying the virus. If you wish to keep people onside in the long term you need to refine the message and start treating people as sentient beings. Keeping people prisoner in their homes or local community will only bring resentment. Travel from ones home to a distant location and back again in the same day in a private car is quite safe provided that people are avoided; social distancing has been retained but the feeling that one is trapped by an instruction from those we chose to represent us not rule us is lessened. We need to retain social distancing not keep people locked up in their homes.

by David1946 on May 05, 2020 at 01:37PM

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  • Posted by fergun May 05, 2020 at 19:22

    I support this principle. My situation is that I need to look after my late father's empty home (he died at the end of February) which is 20 miles away from my home. This would involve getting in my car at home, travelling to my dad's home, spending a few hours tidying it and then returning, with no contact with anyone during this period. I would consider this as being very low risk in terms of disease transmission.

  • Posted by LAM May 05, 2020 at 20:10

    Totally support this. Please give us this small freedom back. Driving around does not transmit the virus - or not that I have seen from the evidence. If the Government has evidence that it does please treat us like adults and tell us what the evidence is. Otherwise relax the rule since it seems to make no logical sense.

  • Posted by Thunderbird May 06, 2020 at 11:06

    I support this.

    The combination of wider travel and social distancing rules and existing restrictions in supermarkets, petrol stations etc - represent a low-risk easing of the current restrictions.

    While this will likely result in increased road traffic - such an extension has to happen at some point.

    As well as allowing users to travel by car - the same should apply to motorcyclists ( I also ride a motorbike).

  • Posted by coopyrose May 06, 2020 at 11:49

    I miss being able to just jump in the car and explore some of the scenes that Scotland has to offer. I also think in this time I have forgotten how it feels to get out of the house. Working from home and being in lockdown means there’s no way to blur the line between these. Home now feels like my place of work and not even the limited daily exercise helps this.

  • Posted by Jayli May 06, 2020 at 13:47

    I agree with this - whilst the need for social distancing must be emphasised, the ability to actually get in your vehicle (or on, in the case of a motorbike) and travel to go a walk somewhere different, possibly with a friend, would ease the mental strain many of us are feeling.

    The ability to travel to see my family, if the bubble idea goes ahead, would also be essential as living rurally, I do not live in the vicinity of any of my loved ones ....

  • Posted by JohnM543 May 07, 2020 at 00:32

    This makes sense, but must be done in a way that doesn't bring hoards of people to popular to popular hotspots.

  • Posted by elmrow May 07, 2020 at 10:59

    I am very concerned about the whole issue of driving / day trips At present, small rural communities in the Highlands are finding themselves calling the police on a daily basis due to individuals breaking lockdown rules; and those individuals are sadly not locals but individuals living 100's of miles away and driving up for leisure/ to go camping! Maybe some restrictions can be lifted around major cities but the Highlands requires a different approach - there is one major hospital covering 325,000 km and a very elderly population. My concern is that if restrictions on driving to walk are lifted - more individuals will take advantage of the easing up, act selfishly and continue to break the rules whilst risk lives

  • Posted by Jay32 May 10, 2020 at 17:31

    We are trying to contain the spread of a virus. This is not essential travel. What if the car breaks down?
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