Why not encourage cycling during the coronavirus lockdown?

Bikes allows people to maintain isolation but provide important respite from being indoors

It's an increasingly urgent question for those who still have to travel into work, or to collect supplies or visit vulnerable people - how can you get around without contracting - or spreading - the coronavirus? One answer could be cycling.

The immediate caveat to mention is that this is not a call for every trip to be made by bike. If you're going 25 miles at night to collect 50kg of supplies for a food bank " well, you could do it with a cargo bike, but for most people it's a non-starter.