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> You could go outside at literally any time during the past year regardless of orders. If you talk about Europe and parts of Asia, I can tell you from experie
by redleader55 5y ago
> You could go outside at literally any time during the past year regardless of orders.
If you talk about Europe and parts of Asia, I can tell you from experience that, no, you couldn't go out of the house for long periods of time in certain hourly intervals during the past year.
- ralph84 5y agoLots of places in the US had "covid curfews" too.
- heikkilevanto 5y agoI don't know about the rest of Europe, but at least here in Denmark we had no restrictions on going outdoors.
- nicoburns 5y agoHere in the UK we technically had a "1 hour of exercise a day" rule at one point, but it wasn't enforced at all (people congregating in groups was, but someone just taking a 4 hour walk instead of a 1 hour walk wasn't). I think it was mostly a case of having to make the rule a bit stricter than it actually needed to be so that the level people actually followed it was at the correct level. I've heard that there were stricter restrictions in France/Italy/Greece at points.
- el_benhameen 5y agoThe author is a teacher in the SF Bay Area. I also live there and went on plenty of walks, runs, hikes, and drives all through the early pandemic. I voluntarily restricted my interactions, but there were plenty of people around here acting as if nothing was going on with absolutely no interference from law enforcement or anyone else.
- fullstackchris 5y agothis isn't entire true - actually i don't think there was a single country in europe that made going outside alone an actual fine with law behind it. it was made to appear that way, but i've heard many anecdotal stories that when stopped by the police, the police ended up admiting they couldn't really do anything