Brace yourselves Cornwall.

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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.

Apparently the camping sites in the new forest are all packed and bournemouth beach had more people today and yesterday than it does in the summer.

They'll all be moaning there's no hospital beds in 2 weeks time 😡 IDIOTS

It's ridiculous. I'm a Londoner and staying put.

The Social Distancing St.Ives Seagull. Nice to see humans doing the same

This is how it spread so quickly here in Italy...people from the north (hardest hit)going to their second homes or going back to their families & have now infected whole areas......please,please stay at home ......we are almost into 2nd week of lockdown but the numbers of deaths are still growing so we don't know how long this is going to go on.....

Once you do that I think you should forfeit your chance of expecting to be taken as a priority

Again, rubbish.

Luckily those running the NHS don't have such views and treat all eligible patients on the basis of need. Do you really expect them to check seriously ill patients for proof of address first?

I fully support a full lock down. I think it’s needed. People will still be able to get supplies.

I have to go to work this week. I’m a HLTA in a private pre prep school. We are open this week for Key Worker children (like all) and I have to get the bus (cannot drive). I’m going to be judged as being out unnecessarily I’m sure. But I have to be out. That however is all I’m doing. I’ll then be on Easter holidays and my school will be shit. I’m staying at home. I will only go out for food when it’s needed. Not seeing anyone. As many of us as possibly need to do this. I don’t get how so many can’t understand this. I don’t want to spend the whole year like this because some can’t be bothered to think of others.

It’s like at school when two twats would keep talking and everyone got held in the class longer and longer and we would all loose playtime.....

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My school will be shut. Not my school will be shit.

Our GP surgeries and I know those in Gwynedd as well have been refusing to register and allow those coming into the area to get meds/access to resources for almost a week. Some surgeries have closed and lost GPs to other areas. All appointments are now triaged.

This was implemented last year as we have lost a lot of GP resources in rural Wales in the last twelve months, people can need to travel 30+ minutes now (if they drive) to see a GP, if there's an appointment; hospital can be hours away.

Now is different. We've seen more people here this weekend than we do any other weekend the entire bloody year.

We had some places open for walking for locals, been overrun today by tourists so now theyve been closed indefinitely.

Our PM announcing "walks are fine" is a part of this as well, bloody idiot. Of course people weren't going to go for a little walk down the street or in their garden, if they have one. They were going to head out to rural places instead.

The idiots behaving as if this is an extended holiday are beyond stupid and selfish. I hope people have more sympathy with vulnerable at risk groups who in fear and desperation fled to holiday homes and caravan parks and who are properly self isolating. Possibly irresponsible if resources are scarce but they're scared for their lives. They're not the same as the selfish groups - local and holiday maker (because plenty of parties and BBQs are locals).

Some people on here also seem determined to ignore that many coming now to the countryside are locals. Locals who moved away and are returning to their families. That's what happened in Italy.

I find it sad so many only started caring about unnecessary travel when they thought it might affect their area. They weren't bothered about vulnerable Londoners and other urban dwellers. The good thing is these people - both the selfish travellers, and the selfish only wanting travel stopped when it affects them brigade - are a minority and do not represent the majority of people who care about the vulnerable across the UK. I don't like to generalise. Most Londoners and other city dwellers do not go on holiday during a pandemic. Most rural dwellers are not pitchfork wielding insular meanies. The main thing is we all want a lockdown now. We all want to protect ourselves, our loved ones, and our families.

If they have a vulnerable family member - that person should be self isolating. What exactly would be the advantage of taking them from their home to self isolate and in a place with smaller, less specialist facilities?

I know a couple who've been down to Devon over the past week with an elderly relative - didn't want to lose out in their pre-booked break - madness

I live in Cornwall & this is seriously shocking. Why the fucking hell ( and I hardly ever swear so that shows how angry I am) would anyone think it’s a good idea to travel or to visit places where loads of people might go? Yes it’s beautiful weather but we are in the middle of one of the worst times the world has seen in years. Why do so many people seem to think that none of the advice applies to them? And as pp’s have said, there is only one main hospital in the whole sodding county! I was considering carrying on going to work but reading this has made up my mind for me ( I’m on checkouts at The Range so no doubt we will get floods of tourists buying camping gear, barbecues, buckets & spades etc). I really hope the majority of people will be turned away. Those with second homes can go fuck themselves! The world has gone mad 😡

Exactly, why the fuck would you “flee” to an impoverished area with few resources? ESPECIALLY if you are at a higher risk?

I’ll say it again, for the people at the back:

Treliske 👏 has 👏 ten 👏 ventilators 👏 only.

North Devon. 14 bed holiday home next door, full, three families.

OrangeSamphire it doesn’t work like that at the moment because access to resources is based on need. But if you did it on residency then Devon locals would be cross if they found Cornish residents got treatment ahead of them in Devon hospitals but that this wouldn’t be reciprocated in Cornish hospitals. It is and should remain based on need.

The same thing is happening here. The evil rich in New York City are all heading for their summer palaces in the Hamptons and buying up all the food in town to stockpile it.

‘We should blow up the bridges’ — coronavirus leads to class warfare in Hamptons

One cheeky cow traveled out there with the virus and demanded admission to the tiny local hospital.

Jesus wept.

Still from St Ives beach webcam at the moment. A multi generation family have just set up camp elderly, toddlers and parents age groups.

If you’re actually sick then you have to go treliske.

If you've imported the virus into Cornwall then you should be going back from whence you came, ditto for Norfolk.

Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park had kept its car parks and toilets open, but has now had to close them to discourage people as tens of thousands flocked there. Undeterred, the dumb twats have parked all over towns in the area - Balloch, Luss, Callender, Tarbet and Arrochar - and walked in.

Same in Suffolk...

don't any of these people have jobs to worry/think about?

The Lake District is the same. Such selfish behaviour.

Close family member works as a porter in Treliske hospital he tells us the corridors are full of people struggling to breathe and is watching people die, at least in London you have a better chance of accessing care and facilities rather than take the virus down to remote locations with limited resources.

Same here in mid-Wales. I'm not far from Aberystwyth and apparently some of the caravan parks on the coast were packed with new arrivals on Friday. Some have now shut but others are still open. With nothing locally open - museum, library, arts centre, leisure centres etc, most non-food shops, there's nothing for them to do so can't imagine why they think coming here is a good idea. Hopefully the weather turns and we return to our usual grey, drizzly gloom which'll encourage them back home. We have 1 hospital that covers a huge area. The next nearest are 1.5/2 hours+ away. Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigon CCs have issued a statement this afternoon asking people to go home/not to travel - those who need to take heed, probably won't.