People living in tourist spots should probably be concerned right now.

[MonkeyToesOfDoom]

Now that Boris has said people can drive for exercise and leisure, you know they'll flock to seaside's, lakes, peaks, etc.
Which means if they're carriers they'll be spreading the virus to petrol stations pumps, gates, railings etc.

I don't get the logic behind him saying that tbh.

idefinitley mostly totally closed. The two that are open in the county are doing meals for those sheilding only in the local area.

@abraid

Seriously though, you would not come on holiday to awesome West Country, home of the friendliest locals in the country (except perhaps for Yorkshire) because people were asked to stay away because of a virus outbreak that the local district hospitals could not deal with and some dickhead stranger on an Internet forum called you a plonker?

The people who.live in tourist areas should take comfort that its extremely unlikely there will be anything open come July / August so no flocks of people wanting to descend on mass at all this year

I am sure all of those who rely on the tourist trade to keep their businesses afloat are delighted at the thought.

I'm a supermarket worker, in a touristy spot thankfully it's in Wales, so people will think twice. If you do go to tourists spots please bring your own food, otherwise you could pass it on to the staff there. That could easily start an out break there.

@RedToothBrush

We live on a popular walking route at the moment. Never been this busy before, but people come out of the nearby villages as our road links the areas and footpaths. Saturday I was weeding & watering the front garden and counted almost 600 people over 10 minutes passing by on foot or bicycle. Luckily a long enough front garden, and no weeding needed near the road. I didn't count the horses as they ALWAYS come past. And the cars were almost non existent. Normally very busy.

I live in a touristy area and am not ‘terrified’, nor am I going to be.

bengalcat
I couldn't give a shit if I get it. I'm young and healthy and have no health concerns. I'm loving my time at home with my DD too.

But right near me is many touristy spots. Beaches, hills, Yorkshire moors and it's villages. Places where food is produced and elderly people live. It won't take much for a few fuckwits to come up on a jolly to Brid, Clee, Hornsea and cause Covid to spread.

Shame that local residents of beauty spots and beaches will effectively have to avoid these places they will be inundated

Most local residents avoid ‘beauty spots’ aka the places with the toilets where people from towns gather in their hordes to all do the same walk anyway.

In terms of petrol pumps I haven’t driven my car for 2 weeks but when I need to fill up I will wash my hands.

superman I’m sure the Cornwall tourist board will be appreciative of your efforts on their behalf.

Or not.

And for those who struggle with why tourists aren’t wanted at the moment- a single infected person at a funeral in France has possibly infected 127 other people through a chain of infection. From just going to that one funeral.

Don’t really understood why it’s supposedly OK for an infected person to go out in their local area and potentially infect 127 people, but not OK for them to go out somewhere else and potentially infect a different 127 people.

I live in a village that's a world heritage site. It's a tourist trap. Now that lockdown rules are being eased, I know we will he flooded with folks.

To be honest I doubt it until the cafes/ little shops etc are open.

the idea that millions of mad, screaming Londoners are going to descent upon Devon like Orcs in some short of west country reenactment of the Battle of Helms Deep is laughable.

A few might do, most definitely won't.

Chill out everyone.

BoomBoomsCousin It's called xenophobia.

@dramadrama

I doubt they're monitoring these boards. And from my perspective, the less idiots who don't understand why people down here needed tourists to stay away, the better.

Don’t really understood why it’s supposedly OK for an infected person to go out in their local area and potentially infect 127 people, but not OK for them to go out somewhere else and potentially infect a different 127 people.

Going to the beach is hardly the same as a massive funeral if it’s anything like the UK numbers in three hundreds are literally rammed into the crem.

I live in a tourist hotspot - London! Usually 30 million tourists a year, in fact. The borders aren’t closed so there’s bound to be a few rummaging around (but possibly not handling petrol pumps).

I live in a tourist hotspot. Think internationally famous type thing. This pandemic is killing a small number of people here, a very small number. Every death is a personal loss and tragedy of course.

The impact of the lockdown is going to cause serious hardship to thousands dependant on tourism for their living. The mental health impact is terrifying.

I don't mind people here. What frustrates me is the lack of consideration for social distancing. If people were doing it, I'd be fine. But they aren't.

@BoomBoomsCousin

The problem is if one person infects 127 people in London, the hospitals are far better equipped to cope.

At our district hospital we have 7 ventilators. If 127 people got infected in one go here, the whole
Community would be in trouble.

It seems the changes on driving to exercise and unlimited exercise is from Wednesday.

Strangely I don’t want to invade tourist destinations as there are likely to be infected tourists milking about.

So I’ll keep on staying at home, click and collect shopping, exercising & staying in. I plan to holiday early autumn but staying within anywhere I can cycle in 3 hours - that’s my plan (obvyonly if there is a campsite open) otherwise I’ll pitch in a friends die old 😂

From the bbc website infographic.

@BelleSausage

“hmm really? You’ll give up going to Cornwall forever just because it has been suggested that it was selfish to go now and spread a possibly deadly disease.

Honestly, the entitlement.”

No not at all. I’ve never objected to not going during COVID. And if people had just talked about COVID I might feel differently.

But it’s become apparent that the residents of the lovely places where I was spending vast quantities of money loathe people like me. Properly loathe us. Clearly tolerate us in the good times only under sufferance.

I’m afraid it has changed my view completely. I was trying to think of a birthday or Christmas gift I’ve bought for my parents, siblings, nieces and nephews in the last 5 years that wasn’t bought in some crafty/arty/pottery/artisan place at a far higher price than I could get something perfectly ok from a high street shop and I could only think of one Christmas when I’d been ill for most of October and November so bought stuff online.

So no it’s not entitlement. I used to feel entitled to go to places from Devon and Cornwall. A branch of my family hails from the north Devon coast. But I don’t feel welcome. Not just during COVID. That’s a given - I would never visit during COVID. But I now don’t feel welcome at all. Because the things that have been said make clear many people there really don’t like visitors and don’t feel grateful we visit. My great aunt lived in Devon and was always horrid about tourists. I just bought it was her. It clearly wasn’t.

So I doubt I will visit often. I’m not sure I’ll visit at all. The group is planning a series of UK city breaks for post- Covid.

Current planned itinerary is Edinburgh, Bath, Oxford, Canterbury, Dundee and Cambridge. Planning to stay in lovely hotels and visit all the tourist spots! Dates will depend on COVID of course.

But this is the reality. 12 people don’t want to visit those places any more. And interesting that you particularly mention Devon and Cornwall as everyone agrees they are the places we all feel most strongly we don’t want to return to now.

The Welsh seem not to have pissed any of us off so there might well be trips there too.

Other places are a mixture.

But it’s not because we couldn’t visit during COVID. It’s because we realise we were never really welcome.

You are absolutely right OP, people will flock for days out now. Can you blame them? The new message is so ambiguous and you can't rely on people to use their intelligence if they don't have any.