Travelling 90 mins to sit on a crowded beach - so silly right now

[Defenbaker]

On the news today they showed a beach down in Devon, which was crowded with people to the point where social distancing was almost impossible. They filmed people going up and down some steps which are the only access path to one beach, then interviewed a family who had driven 90 miles to get there. The mother said "It's ridiculous, some people aren't even trying to social distance... it's like Tescos!" I found myself laughing at her attitude - did she really imagine that they would have the beach to themselves?!?

I understand that people are restless after weeks of lockdown, and they want to enjoy the sunshine, but I'm wondering whether we'll get a nasty spike in the death rates in around 3 weeks, due to the rules being relaxed a bit too much. It's a shame, as the number of deaths has declined over the last few days, but I doubt it will last long. I know we can't stay in strict lockdown forever, but beaches and beauty spots might become virus transmission hotspots if people can't resist the urge to travel to them. Maybe it would be better to limit numbers in some way and/or only allow parking for cars which are registered locally - say within 20 miles? What do others think?

He has a very sound basis for taking it:

This is his basis for taking it :

“The President said the "only negative" he had heard was from a "very unscientific report" conducted by "people that aren't big Trump fans".”

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Countries that have had a strict lockdown, have reduced infection rates to the low 100s per day after around 10 weeks, the UK's are still running at around 4000 per day, both inc Care homes.

Countries with a supposed stricter lockdown like France, Italy and Spain have less new cases per day than the uk not reduced infection rates. You’d have to compare how many tests per day these countries are doing to know if they’re fairing better than the UK. Also two of those countries are nit including deaths outside of hospital.

I'd also look at deaths. They might have more infections or cases but are they dying? Some countries are treating early, which increases the chances of survival.