A plea from Cornwall

[SachaStark]

After a day of hearing from friends about how the holiday cottages and second homes they live near are suddenly filled again, and after seeing the A30 chock-full of caravans and campers:

If you have come to Cornwall from elsewhere, or you are planning to do so, please stop. Stop now. Cancel your travel. If you’ve arrived here today, please turn around and go home again.

We do NOT have the capacity to deal with the sudden influx of virus-carrying tourists. We have a disproportionately large elderly population, and are already the poorest county in England with some of the worst infrastructure.

We have ONE hospital.
In that hospital, there are TEN ventilators.

Why on earth would you want to be here anyway? What if you get sick, is that the kind of mathematics you want to be dealing with? Ten ventilators for 600,000 locals, plus thousands of tourists?

Please, do not come to your holiday cottages, second homes, or camp sites. In the nicest possible way, we don’t want you here. Social distancing does NOT include heading to your cottage in Cornwall, and potentially adding to the burden in an already well overwhelmed area.

Yep - same for the Lakes and many other rural areas I'm sure - we don't need it!

Amen.

Yes, lakeswimmer, I’m absolutely sure that other rural areas also don’t need this influx.

Amen!!

you need to lobby the holiday cottage companies, MPs, etc not individuals.

Cornwall Council have issued a plea,asking people NOT to travel to Cornwall at this time.

My son and family live there,visitors are VERY unwelcome at the moment.

I recommend calling and emailing all the companies that rent out cottages in these places and pleading with them to also lobby through relevant trade associations to get this the next thing the government deal with.

There will be loads of Londoners heading down to places like Cornwall. Some will think they are safe outside cities.

Hospitals will be full everywhere, doesn't matter where you go. The first hospital in London has already announced it has reached capacity for critical care

And please keep away from Devon while you're at it.
Let's not make the mistakes that were made in Italy and Spain where people travelled to the coast/countryside and took the virus with them.
Be responsible please, people.
It's only a holiday. You'll get another chance to have a holiday in future, but by travelling, you might be taking away the chance for several other people. We have a lot of elderly people down here and not enough facilities by far.

Same for Norfolk we were managing fine then the selfish bastards came like locus they've stripped everywhere we have a lot of elderly and vulnerable our parish council has issued a plea but did they listen we haven't been able to walk round the farmers field to many of them jogging !!!

Completely agree!

The hospital will not cope!

Supermarkets are already not coping & the locals (all of my family & 'at risk' parents & ILs will pay the price).

The government need to make it illegal to leave your primary residence during this time.

The hotels, b&b, campsites etc in Cornwall who are taking bookings should be ashamed of themselves (& prosecuted).

I hope the locals remember this & stop using their facilities out of season.

Im on the Lizard and have cancelled my bookings for Easter and beyond also cancelled my wedding this is how it is affecting me and yes please stay at home
We have one hospital ........
www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/tourists-urged-not-come-cornwall-3967846

Have been saying this for weeks about rural and coastal Wales, the country with the lowest beds pp in the UK.
Have watched local cottages start to fill up.
Very glad that London friend with a holiday cottage in Devon made the decision not to go there.

Scared desperate people will get up and move there’s nothing you can do I’m afraid i see why you’re frustrated but nobody will turn back if they think they are safer elsewhere

Helpwithaversion there is plenty that people can do. Please email your MP and get this on the government's agenda.

members.parliament.uk/constituencies/

Here on Dartmoor. Stay away. Suspect it will be the same selfish morons who will binge shop in some bloody supermarket in London putting no money into the local economy and bring it down here and then moan about local shops being closed when they run out of milk. Then will run about the county infecting everyone. Sorry folks not welcome at the moment.

We're scared and desperate as well and I'll go bust

I'm still getting emails advertising holiday cottages in Cornwall. I'm not going but have a cottage booked in Wales for mid May. We'll see.

We were supposed to be going to see family for just over a week at Easter in Devon and Cornwall, and we’ve cancelled our trip, even though we would have been staying with family.
It would be entirely irresponsible to travel to see relatives, and possibly become sick or make them sick, especially when there are far fewer resources.

Completely second what @SachaStark says.

I am in Cornwall. Single parent, no one on hand for support, high risk due to kidney disease.
I can’t get food delivered for two weeks, don’t have a car to travel to supermarkets and my local shop is bare... The hospital cannot cope.
It’s not fair for people further afield to take/expect the facilities that are much, much needed for locals.

Same in South Wales, stay the fuck home you cretins.

It quite on the same level but we keep getting people coming to our village from the city (almost a 2 hour round trip) because they've heard our village coop is well stocked. Or at least it was well stocked. People need to stay put

That should say *not quite on the same level

Same here on the Yorkshire coast. 4 massive Haven type sites, and dozens of smaller campsites all within 5 miles of here. Hospital already at breaking point, and not a single toilet roll, bottle of bleach or packet of pasta in the shops. Yet people are posting on the local Facebook page that nobody is going to stop their little break away in their caravan for some fresh sea air. Yeah right, bring all the germs here then, we don't mind, selfish twunts