‘Because 286,000 of your closest family, friends, neighbors and their kin, friends, and neighbors want to do the same thing at the same place, at the same time.’
recently I was informed, in rather taut language, that if I bicycled with a small group of friends, that I would be constituting a public safety hazard...I grant you make a good point, but too many people are taking this shaming thing way too far...
Since you have not yet received a reply, I will butt in.
I read somewhere that one of the theories in grounding everyone is:
Suppose you flipped your bike and hit your head on pavement. That would be serious enough for a trip to the emergency room. You would then be diverting a doctor’s time, a bed and other assets that might be needed for a wu-flu victim.
Worse, you would be exposed to the wu-flu under the worst possible conditions.
Unless you were riding in an area that is a hot spot, think that is a really disparate grasp for a straw. I am reading that there are many areas where hospital staff are being sent home because hospitals in their area are almost empty. People are staying away in droves.
So whether you are in SD or Long Island would make a difference.
If you are riding three bikes abreast on the sidewalk with someone walking toward you, I would agree you constitute a public health hazard. No question about it.