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I feel like there should be some kind of temporary solution to people not having a balcony right now. I'm very grateful for ours, which has turned from this slightly disappointing grey space to keep the landlords' wobbly patio furniture into a wonderful holiday destination.
If it's not okay to just go outside and sit away from others, people feel that they've already broken the rules and might as well break more. I don't know how we could introduce those little temporary well distanced territories within easy safe reach of home, but I wish we could
I see how it's frustrating that people don't stay indoors, but it is a LOT easier with a balcony (not to mention a garden) - lots of social barriers to sorting this, I have no suggestion, most options won't work for all I think
Because it's all so tied up in territories, hierarchies and privilege. Anyway it's not all just people being stubborn if they still go to sit on some grass. It's a problem we have now that we made urban living rely on shared public spaces even short term.
So whatever we can do to successfully address this (as opposed to just breaking the rules and crowding the parks) will either look unusual and needless to people who are used to having some outside space of their own, or it will be crushing to those who don't.
And if you are perfectly happy to sit on a balcony and let other people be crushed for lack of living space, and tell them it's easy because look YOU can do it, that sucks. We need to work out how this works but we got to admit the problem, too.
(not talking about people going to socialise ON TOP OF having a garden etc, yes, that's happening too, different thing)
Anyway, I got a balcony and no solutions so I'll shut up now
(limiting socially permitted outdoor time to visibly "exercising" and disallowing less vigorous presence is ableist)
(exercise can be a stroll and a rest)
(I should log off)
(I should log off)
To clarify, I think we should stay the heck indoors, I don't think using the parks as usual is ok. At all. I heard neighbouts cheer "let's all go social distancing together in the park" and I am tired of runners breathing at me in passing. And two meters downwind is no distance.
I just think there's massive unacknolwedged inequality, and that the vague rules we are given in the UK just serve to make the usual people claim their space, and many obey by the letter but not usefully.
This is NOT crisis that can be resolved by pretending that lots of people do not exist the way they do, in limited, difficult living spaces, and make up rules and exceptions privately and in a privileged manner. We need to stay the heck indoors, but indoors is not all the same.
OK this is now the end of this thread and I will mute MYSELF on it so I don't go on
