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shoodbegood said..
If you must go for a surf, and many claim they must, go for it.
But.....don't complain if the situation gets worse.
There are pretty clear directives, we have seen what has happened in the northern hemisphere.
Go surfing, but, accept the consequences of your short term gain.
Facts to support that assertion?
The stats tell me otherwise. I have a one in 5000 chance of coming across someone with Covid-19. To actually catch the virus from them I need to be in close proximity without social distancing for around 10 minutes. If I do happen to pick it up then it needs to be able to lodge in my lungs to cause real damage. To do this it much become airborne within me to be carried to my lungs.
Add into the equation that the virus does not like direct exposure to sunlight or heat, and that it is dissipated and diluted in water better than air and you have Buckley's to none chance of catching it unless you are an absolute tosser who goes around not practicing social distancing and licking shopping trolleys to demonstrate your approach to person hygiene.
Seriously us big kids know the damage that this thing can do if the measures that are specified by health are not observed. And the fact that so many other righteous health warriors are out and about keeping "healthy" and the fact that crowded shops and schools are still ok as an example of acceptable social distancing then how is surfing any more dangerous?
Seems to be a damn lot of double standard on display, this is ok, but that is not. This is acceptable but don't do that or you risk killing the world.
Me, I am frothing to go for a wave and seriously considering it when the next lot of good conditions roll in. In saying that I am also not an absolute idiot, if the car park is full I'll move along to the next one, if the break is crowded I will surf alone down the beach at the less than awesome bank.
And if I am out in the water and a crowd develops I will call it a day or move down the beach again.
Personally I think wave days should be rationed to keep the crowds down, odd house numbers one day, evens the next. Checked by surf patrols against drivers licence or ID of some sort, and If you run the gauntlet then you get a fine.
There are ways that this can be controlled and managed so that it is safe.