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How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by abbby » Wed, 08 Apr 2020 10:36 am

How was everyone's CB day 1? Hope everyone is well rested at home.
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Post by PNGMK » Wed, 08 Apr 2020 10:54 am

Sinkies aren't playing their part. Too many people around, cars parked in quiet streets with groups meeting, everyone who hasn't jogged for 20 years has decided to do it again. The Gahmen will slap this shite down unfortunately which means even tighter control.
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Re: How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by bgd » Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:01 am

More people than usual in East Coast Park for that time of the morning. Most people keeping their distance and no groups.

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Post by abbby » Wed, 08 Apr 2020 1:24 pm

That's what I heard, that parks are packed. These people seem brainless. They just don't get it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed the numbers don't go up this month.

However, there another batch of 224 people returning to Singapore from Egypt...opss..the figures..?
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Re: How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by martincymru » Wed, 08 Apr 2020 1:58 pm

No evidence walking alone (+ min. 2m distance) in East Coast park increases chances of catching the virus.

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Re: How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by PNGMK » Wed, 08 Apr 2020 2:19 pm

martincymru wrote:
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 1:58 pm
No evidence walking alone (+ min. 2m distance) in East Coast park increases chances of catching the virus.
The problem is choke points (door ways, gates, lifts, passage ways, narrow paths) and touch points (buttons, handles, knobs) for those going to and from those parks. There is also in particular a problem with smaller enclosed spaces (lifts, toilets) where aerosolization is an issue. Paris is now banning all daylight exercise as I suspect they are seeing cases from very casual contact in the above scenarios.

100:1 says we will see similar bans in Singapore in a week.
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Re: How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by Addadude » Wed, 08 Apr 2020 5:15 pm

I go hill walking in the early morning at the Southern Ridges park connector. I'm always back home by 8.30. So far no issues with crowds of people at that hour.
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Re: How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by tt1973 » Wed, 08 Apr 2020 5:58 pm

So crowded at East Coast Park, markets and even Garden by The Bay! And why is there so many cyclists and joggers all of a sudden?

Looks like so many of them treating this CB as a holiday!

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Re: How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by bro75 » Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:12 am

My CB day is like the day before as I have been working from home for 4 weeks already. I usually do some brisk walking or jogging around our block but I have stopped for now.

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Re: How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by PNGMK » Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:23 am

Early morning is a good time. Singaporean's don't get out of bed too early.
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Re: How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by bgd » Thu, 09 Apr 2020 11:55 am

tt1973 wrote:
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 5:58 pm
So crowded at East Coast Park, markets and even Garden by The Bay! And why is there so many cyclists and joggers all of a sudden?

Looks like so many of them treating this CB as a holiday!
I think for a lot of people it is a holiday. I'm into my 3rd week working from home so I value my early morning walk, but crowds since CB are much bigger and I'm out before 7. I'm hoping the novelty will wear off in a day or two.

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Re: How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by daniel.bong » Thu, 09 Apr 2020 7:16 pm

Struggling and bored...

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Re: How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by zzm9980 » Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:14 pm

Same observations. The small park connector which runs along Haig Road has been at 3-4x as many people as normal. It's a narrow PC, maybe 4-5m wide with walls on either side for half of it, so people were definitely not 1m+ apart.

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Re: How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by bgd » Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:23 pm

The upside is that cycling is great, little traffic. Really enjoyed my trip to supermarket this morning. Shame they were sold out of the only thing i was going for.

Might try the park later, avoiding for now because I'm assuming it will be crowded.

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Re: How was your Circuit breaker Day 1?

Post by tt1973 » Fri, 10 Apr 2020 6:58 pm

Super super bored .....................

The number of people jogging and cycling is crazy!!!

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