Maybe not, unless you injure yourself to the point of needing rescue, requiring others to do it.
The hills will be there in a few weeks.
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'm not going to get into a slanging match with you over this rab, I think the site is better than that. I would agree that there may be little chance of needing rescue with all of your experience or having an RTC (although I know the area well, my mother is from the Black Isle so the chance of an RTC may be greater). The point is this: if there is any chance at all, that staying inside for a while may help stop the spread, then we should take it. I'm assuming that you and your household have been tested and know for sure that you haven't got it, or indeed any virus that may be passed onto someone, lowering their own immunity.
I'm not interested in slanging matches either; I am, however, interested in rational debate (emphasis on the rational).
Now, I don't know how things are where you live, but I'm in a very quiet (i.e. dead end singletrack road, handful of inhabited houses, not on the way to anywhere else) Highland glen. No-one is as yet under house arrest, and indeed the official advice is that getting out for exercise is beneficial, keeping it local, which is exactly what I'm doing. In my case that involves louping over the garden dyke, walking 300m over a field into the forest, and then around another 800m or so out on to a heather moor before strolling up the aforementioned heathery lump. I don't even set foot on a public road. As I said previously, I've made the same trip at least 200 times in the 25+ years I've been living here, in every imaginable weather condition, day and night. At no point am I any more than 3 miles from my front door. The chances of requiring rescue are minimal. A friend who lives in very similar circumstances south of Inverness and who is a senior (i.e. committee member) of his local MRT and who makes a daily ascent of his local - slightly smaller - heathery lump with his dogs has no problem with that either.
As to the possibility of passing on coronavirus to anyone else, it is an occasion of some rarity to
see let alone be in contact with anyone else in the process. In the unlikely event that I did, there isn't much of a problem with maintaining a 2m separation when you can see someone coming from a mile away. Have I been tested? No - but that would involve traveling some distance and being in unnecessary contact with several other people. I have no symptoms, and Mrs Rab insists both of us test our temperature very day with a medical thermometer from the household medicine cabinet (first time it's been used in years - the thermometer that is).
As I said, I have thirty years experience of assessing risk as an ML taking young people into the outdoors. I have assessed the risk - to myself and the community at large - as minimal.
You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion.
PS I noted this when browsing the news sites earlier today:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/25/parts-scotland-could-have-fewer-coronavirus-restrictions-england/