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The guidance exists so that those who live in places without parks can get to places they need to - nobody on this sub who lives in the city should need to be travelling to get to somewhere distanced, nowhere is that busy.

The risk and impact of travelling to remote spots for exercise is low only if a small number of people are doing it. That is the core problem - that there are several hundred thousand people in this city who would like to be going on nice big country walks. If only a small proportion of them do it (as now, ie only those ignoring the guidance or who actively need to) then it's fine.

If it was broadly allowed, however, you wouldn't have a handful of people strolling in the hills, you'd have thousands heading to Mugdock or the Kilpatricks, snarling up roads, causing policing issues over traffic, issues with emergency service access, crowds at chokepoints, mass mixing of people in rural car parks etc. Again, this is literally what happened last year.

This is why the guidance exists. Anybody ignoring the guidance is implicitly saying it is *them* that gets to be in the small number of people who can safely head out to the local wild spots while everyone else stays at home.

Ergo it is not necessarily risky to head out further than needed to exercise, but it is massively selfish because clearly it is not tenable for *everyone* to do it. Most of us, not all of us, need to stay local, and the guidance is fair in making sure the ones who do travel are only those who *need* to. I stay home so that others who **need** to can exercise in those remote spots.