To even consider staying in a holiday cottage?

[Dreaming69]

This might sound stupid but I have a private cottage booked in the North Yorkshire Moors. Were supposed to be going next weekend. Is there anyway we would still be able to go? It would basically be my family going in our car and effectively moving into another house. We would exercise by doing a walk in the moors so plenty big enough area to practice social distancing. The rest of the time would be in the house but it's better than mine and a change of scenery also!

This is a troll post , surely.

If not - what the actual fuck is the matter with you ,OP. Stop being an idiot

STAY.AT.HOME

Which part of that is confusing for you?

I work in the NHS. I implore you, STAY AT HOME. This means your home, not somewhere else. How would you know that the people staying there previously, or the cleaner weren't currently incubating the virus which you then move your family into and then take home with you. Believe me, I understand the upset and frustration at losing a holiday, but the bigger picture here is protecting yourself and others. Repeat: Do not go. Stay at home.

How are you not understanding it?

Are they not teaching reading comprehension in UK????

One of the problems with people running off to holiday cottages etc isn't only about increasing risk (like you say, your car etc). It's about increased pressure on an area not designed for it. Rural areas have less provision for healthcare and that care is, frequently, more distant. If one of you gets ill you will take up an ambulance for a significant length of time to be attended to. If you need treatment you will take up a bed, potentially an ICU bed, that the hospital simply won't be able to spare. Essentially it just adds to the pressure on an area that is already under provisioned.

Sadly you, like everyone else, has to stay at home.

STAY AT HOME MEANS STAY AT HOME.

Genuinely gobsmacked that after everything the last couple of days this is even a post. Regardless of whether you are in a car or not you are travelling to another part of the country and if you are infected you will need a local hospital who will be battling everything they have being chucked at them to save the local people. Give the NHS a chance...they are putting their lives at risk for us and don’t need you treating this as a holiday. Enough said.

No, no, no. And whether you get a refund or not is totally irrelevant to whether you should go or not. Don't fall victim to the sunk cost fallacy and do something incredibly stupid as a result.

There was no ambiguity on this. You are not allowed to go. It really is that simple.

I do wonder how some of the posters on here would have lived through the 70s and the difficulties with power and oil supplies.

We have postponed two such holidays and the owners/rental companies were only too happy to move the dates for us. Have a go - You will be surprised!

You'd have to get petrol and food. That alone would give 2 opportunities to potentially transmit. What if you break down, or need a plumber.
Stay home, stay safe. It's only money you'd be losing.

Before Coronavirus, I didn’t appreciate how many people are really very dim.

And what happens if you break down or have a crash en route.

No wonder we are in this position!
The collective I.Q of the UK seems to be in the negative these days!

As pp have said what if you became ill with anything, not just CV? You going to refuse a bed in a small local hospital with limited resources which should be for locals not bloody holiday makers during this time? I doubt it.
Are you not going to shop for food all the time you are there? Trawl the already empty shelves when locals are stuggling to get basics?
Doesnt your car need petrol? Many rural garages do not have pay at pump facilities.
Put your hand up and see where you are about ffs!

We are doomed, bloody doomed.

You cannot go.

I know it's disappointing. We have a holiday home in a rural tea and we had been looking forward to our first stay of the season but we didn't go, because thus is fucking serious, and rural areas do not have the hospital infrastructure to cope with visitors - hospital provision is calculated for permanent residents. Travelling to these areas is selfish and irresponsible.

Stay at home means stay at home.

This is why the human race will become extinct. By this time next week he’ll have to announce that the army will have to nail all of our doors shut to protect us from the stupidity of an entitled few.

What is wrong with everybody?

It's the entitled twunts like you that descended into my county last weekend, it was heaving, and a lot of them are still bloody well here...

Stay. At. Home



NO NO NO NO NO NO NO STAY AT HOME.IS THAT CLEAR ENOUGH?

@Dreaming69 stay at home. How would you be getting the keys for the holiday home , surely that involves being near a person that’s not your family.

No your an idiot

The rules are overly strict for a reason. Even though I’m theory this would do no harm you can’t go unless you want to risk falling foul of whatever enforcement measures that will have in place.

Jesus. Suffering. Fuck.

Yes, go ahead because, you know, holidays.