Seadide stupidly busy

[mummydoris2006]

I live in a seaside resort (Slegness) and today it is absolutely heaving with people. I understand new guidelines say you can drive and enjoy the beach etc for the day but people are really taking the Mickey!

The beach has human excrement on it, the queues for supermarkets are worse as people are queing hoping they can use the toilet and one person even knocked on a residents door and asked if his pregnant girlfriend could use the toilet. Upon being told no he told the homeowner they were out of order as she was pregnant and they'd drove from Essex.

I keep seeing threads where people that live by the sea etc are being slated for not welcoming visitors but the reality is due to the amount of people flocking to the coast we can't safely enjoy our own hometown, the streets are far to narrow to be able to stay 2m away from people with the influx of visitors.If any local dares to comment we are immediately hit with the "you wouldn't have jobs if it wasnt for us". Neither my own or any of my families jobs are tourist reliant and amazingly we manage to keep our economy going well enough during the winter months.

I understand people want a bit of normality and it's really hard on children but surely you should respect the place you visit and as people that live here all year round we should be able to safely enjoy our own hometown.

Why are all the public toilets closed? Surely, they should be open? There's no point in having free movement of people and then not having the services available for it. Also, all public transport should have gel on it, to be used as you get on and get off, same as hospitals.

@urkidding toikets not closed at the beach near where I live

Money for hand gel on all buses not there, I get the bus everyday for work, there are 3 people on a double decker bus , they are losing so much money , it used to be full

It is not necessary to go to the beach

But necessary / essential trips no longer the guidance, you can exercise all day long, and visit garden centres, also not necessary

@urkidding the reason the toilets are closed is because Boris decided to give people more freedom to exercise in other areas (maybe thinking of people in crowded inner cities without any outside space and or people with MH issues etc). He either naively expected people to use their common sense and not to take the Mickey or he wants a second wave over and done with. Local councils have kept facilities closed to protect the public, to protect cleaners and in the hope of discourage idiots from having full days out (if no toilets, no bars etc).

Lincolnfield - bit of generalising there. Let’s hope not all nurses look down their noses at people less fortunate than themselves. All of us could end up unemployed, traumatised and self medicating with drugs. We are all only a few major life events away from that possibility. You are not a superior species to those unemployed people you talk about. You are just luckier because of your background/life events/family history/brain function/wealth or whatever.

Anyone going to the popular beaches clearly isn’t too bothered about catching / spreading CV as it’s obvious to anyone that they are going to be rammed

It would be interesting to know where the public toilets are open and in which parts of the uk.

Is it possible that it's not a money issue but maybe councils are trying to desuade people from other areas travelling there?
Is it a possibility that they only have small hospitals for example Cumbria only has I believe 2 hospitals in the area.
Others parts of the country like Tenby 1 that could deal with covid and so on.
Places like Korea and Japan have hand sanitizers in all public transport and even in the streets on street lights.

I agree bigchris but usually garden centres are not too far and would not take all day and hopefully people don't relieve themselves in the shrubbery.

I didn't think many places had public loos anymore. My council offered cut rates to businesses if they opened their loos to the public. Then shut the majority of the council run ones. Of course all those businesses have now closed so no where to use the loo.

All I can say is stupid people will be stupid. Local councils schools just put roadblocks in to keep imbeciles out. Who trust a man that was fired several times off lying and god knows how many for being stupid.

Lol at where did the government think people would urinate.. why would te government need to think about this..? They might just have enough going on at present and assume adults would be able to work this out.. public toilets cant be safe atm.. so therefore only go as far from your house that you dont meed a wee before you go home..

I’d hate to be using public toilets now, what with coronavirus spreading through faecal particles after flushing. Not to mention all the contaminated surfaces.

Sockyarn I'm hoping they mean the address the number plate is registered at, not where the car was originally registered.

The government should have let people meet up with chosen friend and family locally,not told people they can travel miles to a beauty spot or the coast,its obvious with this weather people will Its summer for godsa sake,people have been cooped up for weeks,only bungling Johnson could have devised such a stupid idea.

I met a friend in a local park other day,there was a stall selling takeaway coffees teas etc,she said should we have a drink,i said remember no loos here and not even shop ones open down the road.We decided againstlol.

It stands to reason 35-40% of the replies on here are so stupid... no doubt you voted Boris in.... toilets are closed because unless you clean taps ..door handles and toilet handles after each use ..you have a pretty high chance of spreading this virus if just one user has it...
Stop being selfish and stop endangering other people ...you may not value your own life or that of your family... things will only get back to normal if we all do what caters/doctors/ nurses and scientists ask for a few weeks longer until it is more under control

Carers not caters ...

A. People shitting on the beach. Ugh Rank!

b. @Lincolnfield I live in social housing. A titchy one bedroom flat. Have never touched drugs or been drunk. Ive not seen my elderly parents since 14th March.

c. I HATE the heat This flat gets very hot. Because i hate the heat i dont like to sit outside in it Fuck the beach......i want the hairdresser And to see my parents. Cant meet them at an outside location...........DM has limited mobility.

d. i have an overactive bladder. Have done since my early twenties. Im now in my forties. So i dont even leave my home town. I go to the town centre to shop. And in non Covid times to the hairdresser , for a chin wax and to see my parents. Thats it.

Im a full time carer for DH. And i would never fucking dream of pissing outdoors.

It's ridiculous. And I'll bet they all clapped for the NHS this night, completely missing the irony of the situation. Big tossers.

I was very unwell at the start of lockdown with probably covid was extremely fatigued for six weeks and had the temp, cough, aches. Saw a Dr over this NHS app videocall thing. I remember when crawling about as I couldn’t stand up properly that if I died I would never see the sea again. It made me really cry. I’m in central England but grew up a five minute walk from an amazing beach. I’m not going to the beach because I’m not a selfish arsehole.

My family in Holland were telling me that the police shut all the roads to the beaches /overcrowded beauty spots preventively yesterday as it was a public holiday. They did this after people were not respecting the message: avoid crowded spaces.

Since all these people are allowed to come, then the council should hire a field full of socially distanced portable toilet blocks with proper hand washing. Expensive though.
Someone needs to invent portaloos that open if you tap your bank card - like tube travel in London.

Reality check : Someone at the beach has to have Covid to pass it on to others. Even if someone at the beach has Covid it is unlikely to spread in the open air. Even if someone at the beach does pass it on to another person, many people infected with Covid will have no symptoms. Some infected people will feel rubbish for a couple of weeks. A very small proportion of people will have complications that require hospitalisation. A small proportion of those hospitalised will go to the ICU. Most of those people who would be likely to have complications are shielding so they will not come into contact with beach goers.

We have lost all perspective with regard to the relative risk of catching Covid versus the risk of allowing the state to control whether we work, who we associate with and where we go (even to the extent of forbidding people to go to their vacation homes that they own - their own private property!) You really want to live in a state where the govt can restrict the distance you can travel and police can fine you for leaving home for the day? What if this goes on indefinitely? The virus may stick around like the common cold. You’re willing to give up freedom of movement for years and believe it should be enforced on everyone?

I’ve followed the rules and stayed in my neighbourhood in London since lockdown began. I was happy to comply with restricted movement “to save the NHS” at the peak in April when the govt needed to buy time to expand healthcare capacity but enough is enough. They mothballed the Nightingale.

They need to open the beach parking and the portaloos and trust people to manage their own lives. People shaming strangers on the beach reminds me of police states where people inform on their neighbours. It’s a slippery slope.

It makes no sense to have lockdown in the first place but lift it just because people are bored.

The toilets, car parks AND local food outlets were all open on the beach we visited - don’t believe everything you read in the papers!!

Gmom, not everyone who needs to is shielded. I read somewhere the other day, that Europe is shielding anyone over 55