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.

Just reposting the government instructions that councils have to put in place before opening their public toilets:

"Guidance from government yesterday (May 13) says public places, such as toilets, should have
▪ sufficient provision of automated hand sanitising dispensers in public places
▪ where possible, providing hand towels as an alternative to hand dryers in handwashing facilities.
▪ using signs and messages to build awareness of good handwashing technique and other respiratory hygiene behaviours, e.g. around coughing and sneezing in public places
▪ configuration of toilet facilities to ensure they are kept clean, with social distancing achieved as far as possible and with best practice handwashing followed
▪ minimising use of portable toilets
▪ enhanced cleaning for facilities that are heavily used"

Clearly the government didn't think people would just shit and piss on the beach but they underestimated how grim the British public is

I've been truly disgusted by the behaviour of people at the beach near us. Shitting on a beach is absolutely fucking disgusting. Honestly, if it wasn't for bloody Brexit I'd be planning my escape.

Reading those toilet reopening guidelines.
You'd think they'd have all of that as a matter of course. Basic hygiene.

Cleaners are cleaning public toilets elsewhere, including the most infected places - hospitals. Why not beaches? Provide the cleaners with appropriate PPE and reopen the toilets. Either that or mandate adult nappies for the Swarms and the Hordes.

I actually think lack of toilets is the reason so many are using beaches.

They see the sea as their own personal potty.

Which risks spread because recently there has been studies about sewers and covid carrying in excrement and urine.

Three public toilets in my town have been open all along, even during full lockdown. We are planning to go to a coastal area tomorrow about 20 minutes from our home, the public toilets there are open as well. Maybe because we aren't in a touristy area, locals are allowed to use the toilets.

Next we will have Typhoid

And don't cleaners tog themselves up at the best of times? Surely a mask and gloves is basic for someone cleaning public loos even outside a pandemic. You'd be mad to do it without..

Teachers can't possibly go back because of the chance of infection.

But cleaners need to get back cleaning bogs asap during a highly infectious viral pandemic otherwise someone might not be able to have a day out.

I don’t think you are BU but it’s a headache for the government, people have had a gutful of this social distancing crap and obviously just don’t care any more about “protecting the NHS”, what the government do though about it other than more lockdown, which they won’t want to do because of the economy, I don’t know.

*Reading those toilet reopening guidelines.
You'd think they'd have all of that as a matter of course. Basic hygiene.

Cleaners are cleaning public toilets elsewhere, including the most infected places - hospitals. Why not beaches? Provide the cleaners with appropriate PPE and reopen the toilets. Either that or mandate adult nappies for the Swarms and the Hordes*

Exactly that. The next thing will be an outbreak of cholera or typhoid. Just open the fucking toilets.

Hospitals are vital. Your trip to the beach is not.

Exactly that. The next thing will be an outbreak of cholera or typhoid. Just open the fucking toilets

How about don't shit on the beach? If that means you can't go to the beach, tough luck.

We live near the south coast and will do as we normally do and pop down to the beach in early morning or evening for a swim once the sea is warm enough.
Anything else is madness for the time being in my opinion. We are lucky to be close enough that no toilet or cafe facilities are needed.

But our other car has nothing.

Errr, if you have a normal UK plate on your car, that's not a private plate, you can certainly find out quite easily what county the car was registered in.

Yes, you are very lucky to live near a beach. Other people are not so lucky. They adhered to lockdown very well for weeks, beaches and beauty spots were very empty.

Now they have been told they can travel to beaches etc so that's what they're doing - this might be our summer ffs, of course they should get out and enjoy it and of course the councils should open the toilets and ensure they are properly clean (make a nice change)

The toilets in our local park have been open the whole time.

IF ITS NOT SAFE TO OPEN TOILETS ITS NOT SAFE TO TRAVEL (further than about 20 minutes)

What if you dont live within 20 minutes of a supermarket and you only have a local post office? I gave birth four times but even i can drive 30 minutes to Aldi without pissing myself. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Thing is, some people can pre plan and go for a walk to their nearest beach, stay a few hours and go home. Some cant plan or think ahead. Like in non pandemic times. Some people dont think and they haven't changed in the pandemic

Who is paying for the extras? All the extra cleaning and facilities and Poe for the cleaners?

Pubic toilets on our beaches have metal mirrors and fittings that can't be ripped off the walls because that's what people do when they go to the beach. They get absolutely hammered and wreck stuff. Or absolutely hammered and shit on the beach.

Perhaps Boris and his mates should have thought this through. But I don't suppose they're planning on funding all this.

How are the beaches looking in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?

It’s somewhat surprising that some people have only just realised that millions of their fellow citizens are stupid, entitled and selfish.

I wonder how many people who gleefully virtue signal to their neighbours by clapping the NHS are the same ones endangering them by flocking to overcrowd tourist honeypots where social distancing is impossible?

ha sorry op, i must admit to not reading the thread!

That’s what happens when we rely on common sense - folk decide they’re entitled to go wherever they want regardless of whether the infrastructure is there to support them. Actual people shitting on the beach, really.

Who is paying for the extras? All the extra cleaning and facilities and Poe for the cleaners?

Who's going to pay to clean the shit off the beach?

We went to a Yorkshire beach on Saturday, arrived at 9am, walked 6 miles along it to a town, one of us went in the bakers, walked back. Touched nothing other than with our feet.

Didn’t touch the door handle of the bakers, or the counter or stand within 2m to pay for or pick up your goods...

It’s somewhat surprising that some people have only just realised that millions of their fellow citizens are stupid, entitled and selfish.

The same stupid entitled and selfish people have given up their freedoms, rights and livelihoods to protect those vulnerable to the virus and save the tories bacon after years of underfunding the NHS.