mikem said:
... much bigger organisations & have paid staff who have nothing better to do at the moment than write schemes that may or may not be acceptable by the time we actually get there...
Pitlamp said:
Perhaps folk are waiting to listen to our leader's announcement on Sunday evening?
Hello everyone. I'm not paid and I spent over 2 hours in a 25 person Zoom meeting on Thursday morning with all the other outdoors sports representatives for Wales, including the BMC, and other interested parties like Sport Wales, commercial provider associations, and local authority OEC reps, etc, to discuss a 'pathway to recovery', an exit strategy from lockdown and gradually returning to the outdoors. The BMC kindly shared their draft proposals as a basis for discussion. These in their published form are the subject of this forum thread.
The leadership vacuum at the top of the BCA has done nothing, and not being paid is not an excuse for nothing. If what people do is nothing then they should not occupy posts.
I've got copious notes and Pitlamp is right that I'm waiting for Boris to say something on Sunday night before giving the Coronavirus news page on the CCC website its near fortnightly refresh:
http://www.cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/corona%20virus.html
Meanwhile Mark Drakeford (who's he?) has got in ahead of Boris and already decreed:
1) Exercising more than once a day, which has been illegal in Wales since the start of the lockdown, but not in England, will from Monday be relaxed so that people in Wales can exercise more than once a day. They must not travel any significant distance from home in the process.
2) Garden centres will be allowed to re-open, provided they can ensure the two metre social distancing rule is followed.
3) Councils will begin to work on plans to re-open libraries and household waste centres.
More details concerning Wales at:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52584690
I will endeavour to write up in more detail on Sunday for the CCC website.
I'll leave you with the thought now though that if Boris opens up Outdoors England somewhat, but Wales stays largely closed down, then the Welsh Goverment will have the reverse of the "Pen-y-Fan" and "Snowdonia" problem of Easter / Mayday. People from Wales will want to leave Wales to recreate in England, and possibly vector the virus both ways in the process. This leaves the Welsh police with the problem of how to stop a mass exodus (and mass return) with some kind of Iron Curtain risking all that it entails for their image and that of the nation.