Brace yourselves Cornwall.

[SidsWife]

been doing trips up and down the A30 the last few days delivering bits to vulnerable family members. I reckon I’ve seen probably over a thousand campers, caravans and cars loaded with luggage heading towards Cornwall, full of passengers. Very worried for my gran who lives there. Cornwall is full of old people and has one hospital which only just manages to keep up on a normal day. People running away to their second homes ought to be ashamed.

I like your thinking @tryingtoprep and I agree, the world will have to step back from this when it settles and assess. I really hope with this, the government realise the invaluable asset we have in our NHS and the staff, and how vital funding is. It’s horrific what’s going on and we’re only in the early stages so it’s scary but we have to keep hoping and trying to be positive, hoping that people will get better, hope that the end is in sight, hope that treatment is around the corner.

Plenty in Cumbria too - the holiday home opposite is full. Hoping they go home today!!

dont understand why police are not stopping them turning them round and sending them back. I heard dont know how true it was they did this going to Scotland.

I have family in Cornwall. A 91-year-old mother in a care home, 2 over 70 (reasonably healthy), one over 70 in remission from cancer, and one with heart problems. I am terrified for all of them.

I have just read that some of the camper vans/caravans that have been moved off the camps due to closure are now parking up in residential streets. Just GO HOME!

I have the impression that a significant number of people currently live permanently in camper vans and vans, there are also people living in cars, these are people who would otherwise be homeless.
(I appreciate that these are not the people who have gone to the parks in Cornwall)

I would have thought the police could check ANPR cameras and people's driving licences and tell them to turn around and go home.

Gbtch
Of course you're entitled to your opinion , but your lack of understanding puts you in the category of people who please themselves without thought for others ! What don't you understand about rural communities struggling to cope because we have ( in comparison to most areas of the country) very minimal resources...shops get fewer deliveries of a smaller choice of stock , transport is more of a skeleton service , even the roads aren't designed for heavy traffic , these things are usually braced & improved for easter & the summer holidays to handle the influx of visitors ...which in general we love having as we are very proud of our county & enjoy sharing it's beauty .....but the trade off we make to live in this beauty 12 months of the year is to accept that jobs are few & seasonal , wages are awful most people live well below the poverty line rent & mortgages are out of reach especially for seasonal employees & our health & public services are minimal on the regular!!!! so how do you imagine unexpected hundreds /thousands of people into this area possibly carrying deadly germs wouldn't be a disastrous 1 last thought .....it was on the news last night that freight Lorries with much needed supermarket deliveries hit grid lock due to the afore mentioned roads & visitors...... they eventually had to turn around as the perishable stock was spoiling & deliver it somewhere else !

Because "ooh it's so nice and pretty" isnt a good counterbalance for "it doesn't have capacity for the people who live there during this unprecedented crisis".

Christ, how monumentally entitled can you be.

I would have thought the police could check ANPR cameras and people's driving licences and tell them to turn around and go home

Police have to operate within the law and currently these people are not breaking the law. Though if they are now ensconced in a second home then once new laws are passed they be breaking them if they did travel home.