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.

Caravan parks are closing from tonight, think it is caravan club member parks or similar. Closed till June.

all the number plates will have been detected by ANPR I assume?

Ultimately, its not the tourists who are to blame, its our shockingly ineffective govt.... which over the last few weeks has allowed the spread of CV to become endemic.
Johnson saw what happened in Italy & France and has allowed it to happen here too.

This will end in violence against tourists if locals die because they can't get treatment.

Tourists need to take responsibility. We all need to take responsibility. Golly, when will people just do the right thing because it is the right thing?

My parents (70+) had a break booked in an area mentioned on the thread. They aren't going :) They are sad about it but we had a long chat about medical facilities and the possibility that if they went they could be there for months if lock down happens. They have a comfortable home and garden with friends around them vs a smaller house with a courtyard garden and locals who don't want them there at the moment.

Maybe have a word with letting gents rather than slag off visitors.

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all the number plates will have been detected by ANPR I assume?

It is not illegal to travel anywhere at the moment so if they have recorded number plates they will have to discard their records (you can’t hold personal data for no reason)

I’m in Cornwall.

Please save the holiday for when this is all over.

We have a massive elderly population down here, please don’t put them at risk!

Its not just medical facilities, we haven't the food supply either, they will be literally taking food from us.

People don't do the right thing, that's way we enforce taxes, speed limits drink driving... left to their own devices most people are total xxxx's

Non essential travel ban should have been introduced last week in prep for the schools shutting and easter hols... too late now.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301397

Schools closing early, lots of people not at work, nice weather. It was inevitable. There are definitely people who see the next few weeks/months as an extended holiday.

I'm in London and wouldn't dream of going anywhere. Why would anyone want to be ill, possibly seriously ill, away from home?

We have to stop the rhetoric about protecting the elderly and vulnerable and start saying that everyone is vulnerable.

Forestry commission is shutting all the caravan parks in the new forest so all the tourists will have to bugger off back home hoping they will do this and not just try and move on to a park outside the forest

This makes me absolutely furious. They are utter selfish c*NTS. There are TWELVE ICU BEDS in Cornwall. Please fuck off home!

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?

So did the Italian doctors until CV came along.

we haven't the food supply nor do people in cities. Elderly relatives in their 70s and 80s with underlying conditions have struggled to get food they need. It's not ok that it's happening in rural areas but it's also not ok to happen to city dwellers.

London has nearly 9 million inhabitants. The population might be younger as a whole but I wonder what the actual numbers of elderly are? I'd wager likely way more than the whole population of some rural areas. There's also many vulnerable ill and disabled. Shame those screaming for no necessary travel didn't spare a thought for vulnerable Londoners and other city dwellers over the past few weeks. It's not ok to put people at risk in rural areas, nor was it ok to put the vulnerable in cities at risk.

dorapicasso So many people live in awful housing conditions. Cramped, poor quality. I can see why some would prefer being elsewhere. Also I imagine many vulnerable city dwellers might feel better about facing a severe respiratory illness somewhere with fresh clean air rather than the polluted fumes of their city. Not that I'm advocating people travel now. Weeks ago vulnerable groups could have been evacuated to holiday parks but it's too late now.

Bit shocked people are being told to travel more. The holiday makers shouldn't have left but now they have why should vulnerable people in their home towns be put at more risk. The holiday makers have been mingling in large groups.They need to stay put. It works both ways. Right now all non essential travel should stop.

I'm in Cornwall, heard that a man from a nearby town died due to covid today. That'll be 5 that I've heard of dying at Treliske. Though it may be more now. The news of the man was shared on Facebook, so any official statement may well have more.

If that's the number of deaths I wonder how many are in there seriously ill. And I dread to think how many it will be over the coming weeks. The hospital will not be able to cope. This has really shown us the selfish bastards in our society. Along with the kind ones too thankfully.

A campsite on the Gower wrote yesterday that its still taking bookings!!
how ridiculous!!

So did the Italian doctors until CV came along.

What do you mean StormzyinaTCup?

These campsites should be named and shamed...

Maybe they should start charging people to enter Cornwall instead of leaving. £5,000 per person might stop them.

What do you mean StormzyinaTCup?

They are no longer prioritising by need but by age. Something I don’t expect they ever thought they would have to do.

Maybe ask locals to close the sites and stop renting out cottages.

If there was nowhere to stay people wouldn't go. But there are still current adverts for holiday cottages and caravans.

Talk to the locals making money from the city dwellers about it.

Very sad about the elderly man in Cornwall. Terribly sad about all the victims of this horrible virus wherever they are. The holiday makers are indeed selfish but not necessarily the reason for this death. Not that they should have travelled. The virus has an incubation period. It's just as likely the infection was brought there by locals. Either locals who returned from holidays (abroad or UK) or business trips or those who moved away to cities but are now returning to their families. We should all be taking precautions. We needed a lockdown weeks ago. We still need one.

My parents live in the West Country.
The people opposite are second home owners from London. They turned up two weeks ago. Mother, who is a force to be reckoned with, saw him. He said ‘where here now’. She replied, ‘and bringing your London germs with you’. He drove off.