Mountain Biking:
- rated high in ACC accident statistics
- rated high in Mountain Safety Council accident statistics
- general considered a risky activity
- often requires travel out of 'home area'
- examples of MTBer needing to be rescued by helicopter in first week of Level 4 Lock down
Status during Level 4 and Level 3: Allowed activity
Why does this bother me? It's not so much I couldn't go hunting. It shows that decisions made by this government are not based on facts, but ideological and emotional preferences.
Lets not pull our punches, at the first opportunity this government seems dead keen to persecute hunters. So my concern is not just their behaviour during Covid-19, but what other excuses will they take advantage of now they've had a taste of the power they can wield against hunting and other activities they don't like.
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