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The packed beach brigade..

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Bol87 · 25/06/2020 10:10

Why am I seeing a resurgence of the packed beach brigade whinging on social media? And still harping on about it being Cummings fault 🥴

The last packed beach horror has resulted in no spike in case whatsoever. Cases have been flat & fallen over the last couple days (although I’m expecting this to be a bit temporary & them go up a bit & flatten again). This is alongside schools opening back up, meeting friends & family outdoors etc. And that day those on Durdle Door had to pack together due to air ambulances landing.

It strikes me that it’s pretty obvious the virus does not easily spread outdoors. Even the beaches that looked rammed, everyone will be a metre apart at a minimum. You don’t sit immediately next to each other.

Can we not get over people going to the beach?! Stop calling them idiots when in fact, they are simply doing something they are allowed to do & actually, if they’ve made a risk assessment the evidence suggests it’s an OK thing to do.. I mean, rather them than me, a packed beach is my idea of hell in normal times but c’mon! 😩

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boogiebogie · 27/06/2020 11:46

Oh please don't come to west wittering on a hot day. The beach have limited numbers of parking so people are parking on our paths!! Grass verges on blind bends... Everywhere. It is really dangerous for kids coming out of school and our elderly who need the paths. I love people enjoying the beach but parking on the paths... Wtf....

PhoneLock · 27/06/2020 11:54

The "packed beaches" were fake news.

This what I thought. Clever camera angles. Other photos showed that groups were actually quite widely spaced in reality.

Nothing excuses the filthy beggars that leave their rubbish behind though. I just don't understand their mentality.

Dadnotamum72 · 27/06/2020 12:01

@boogiebogie

Oh please don't come to west wittering on a hot day. The beach have limited numbers of parking so people are parking on our paths!! Grass verges on blind bends... Everywhere. It is really dangerous for kids coming out of school and our elderly who need the paths. I love people enjoying the beach but parking on the paths... Wtf....
Keep hearing about West wittering on the radio, why don't they just fully open the car park instead of this silly booking system.

People are coming anyway at least the verge parking would be reduced.

Sunshinegirl82 · 27/06/2020 14:14

@boogiebogie

We booked the car park and parked there. To be honest I didn’t see much in the way of bad parking on the way through. I can understand booking to keep numbers sensible but the system they’ve got isn’t great!

I think it’s a bit unrealistic to think people won’t go to the beach on a hot day to be honest!

Realityofsen · 27/06/2020 15:14

@PhoneLock as a resident who can see the beaches in Bournemouth I can assure you it was utterly grim and not angles at all.

PhoneLock · 27/06/2020 15:55

as a resident who can see the beaches in Bournemouth I can assure you it was utterly grim and not angles at all.

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