[seemslegit]

People roaming in open areas by themselves or with people they cohabitate with is not a threat as long as physical distance is maintained, especially if masks (even improvised ones) are used. Allowing them to do it will allow the public to bear a longer lockdown than cracking down on it.

[zapdrive]

You don't seem to have an understanding of Indian society. There's a lot of unemployed/non-working youth who usually just roam around aimlessly. If this lockdown is not strictly enforced such people will make the whole effort fruitless. Indian cities are very densily populated. It is virtually impossible to loiter around without getting in close proximity to another person.

Edit: and most of the people who loiter around do it in groups, everybody from a different household.

Edit2: source: I used to be one of those at some point in my life. Thankfully there was no pandemic at that time.

[seemslegit]

So not the case of "People roaming in open areas by themselves or with people they cohabitate with" on any aspect is it ?

[zapdrive]

Mostly not.

[sbmthakur]

The problem is that people soon start misusing this. One person comes, then second, then third and soon you have a crowd. This happened at places where people went for morning jogs.