Do we all just need to be more like the Cornish?

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Cornwall in tier 1 and have coped admirably with the pandemic.

There's the perception that they're just much better rule followers in Cornwall, but is it just a better sense of community and they look out for each other more.

Is it wrong to say other parts of the country could learn a lot from Cornwall and the way the leaders and the people there have handled this pandemic?

Where I am in Cornwall no one seems to be following the lockdown. It's like a perpetual bank holiday here at the moment.

Bude was the "Cornish Hot Spot" a couple of weeks ago, with the secondary and three primary schools closed. Infection rate was 330 per 100,000 (I think)

This week there's an outbreak in a Bodmin meat factory - 106 cases.

It really doesn't feel like it's not happening here. I wanted Tier 2.

Finally there’s a bright side to having a train line that regularly falls into the sea

This made me laugh Thursday

It does seem to have taken hold in the local schools. DS’s year group are isolating atm. I also thought tier 2 would be better. I guess time will tell if we will continue to be so lucky...

Where I live it’s definitely rule break city. We are surrounded by arrogant people who are blatantly rule breaking. In and out of each other’s houses, car sharing, totally selfish. We are the youngest where we live and we are the only ones following the rules. Annoyingly due to their ages they’ll be first in the queue for the vaccine.

Hopefully next year will bring a house move for us.

@Fleshlumpeater

Glad to see lots of common sense on this thread. When Liverpool were first to go into tier 3 it was very much implied (not just here but various Facebook groups I’m on) that it was because we were just shit at doing lockdown and a bunch of selfish dirty northerners

To be fair, the irony for university cities like Liverpool is cases exploded in September after thousands of students turned up from all over the country, including rural or southern areas.

I'm not implying any specific areas are badly behaved, just more whether there was anything inherent in the Cornish that has helped keep their cases down.

Cornwall and the Isle of Wight have a few things in common - surrounded by the sea or nearly so , no cities - it’s little to do with behaviour and more todo with environment

N West Wales also very low. It is rural there are few places to go indoors.

Urgh, honestly sick of hearing this. People don't 'follow the rules better' in fucking Cornwall than they do in Manchester.

Rural county. Plenty of open space and vitamin D.

Plenty of Vitamin D??? In the face of a SW gale? It's always raining here!

@ShangelaLaqueefaWadley

Urgh, honestly sick of hearing this. People don't 'follow the rules better' in fucking Cornwall than they do in Manchester.

I agree, people down here (sw) break the rules as much as everyone else, I saw a group of people chatting in the church yard earlier, maybe they thought hod would save them.

Its all down to environment, population, cities, universities and age.

There are no universities in Cornwall which means they don’t have thousands
of students moving from different parts of the Country at the same time.

I only get plenty of vitamin d because I take supplements. It’s grey and rainy all the time.

In Cornwall as well. The key thing is, nobody travels through the county to get anywhere else! We're effectively a dead end and a very rural one at that! We were lucky all the holiday makers didn't bring the virus. I thought we'd have a massive spike after the summer!

@doodleygirl

There are no universities in Cornwall which means they don’t have thousands of students moving from different parts of the Country at the same time.

Aren't there?

@RhymesWithOrange

One short border with a county with relatively low infection rates No cities No big towns Rural, dispersed population No massive employers/factories No indoor shopping malls No (open) airports No major rail or road infrastructure - end of the line only. Crap nightlife Hardly any public transport Warmer weather means people can be outdoors more

We're not doing anything differently, it's just a function of our geography and rurality.

Agree with all except the warmer weather! The southeast has better summers than here.

Do the lorries from europe usually drive right across the country or change driver or go to a centre nearby?

You know when someone starts a thread in here asking what it’s really like to live in the country and loads of people list loads of reasons why it’s shit?

Those are the reasons we don’t have a lot of Covid cases.

Plus, most of the schools are smaller and rural, with little public transport used to get to them. This means each village and town has pretty much kept to itself, unlike places with larger hubs.
And I live in Cornwall, but definitely not by the sea, so don't think the sea air as been much help to me!
There have been a few more cases heard of in schools nearish to me in the last few days, so it could well be Tier 2 after the review in two weeks.

I don’t doubt for a second that we'll be moved to tier 2 in a fortnight, and the general Christmas mingling will result in another national lockdown in the new year.

@PhilCornwall1 @doodleygirl

Falmouth University...

The Isle of Scilly is also in tier 1. It is not the easiest place to get to - like Cornwall so I think that plays a big factor.

@RhubarbTea

I live in Cornwall. Have you ever been there? It takes absolutely ages to get to and it surrounded on three sides by sea, so harder for covid to get in. It doesn't really have much in the way of cities, its only city is more like a medium sized town, so population density isn't as much an issue. It's also very white and relatively wealthy, a 'second homes' kind of place, although there are certainly pockets of extreme deprivation as well and a large elderly population.

We also have only one main hospital for the whole county. I am fully expecting to be put into tier 2 on the 16th when they review it. If not then, then post Christmas.

In terms of masks most people do wear them ins hops but I have seen loads of groups of teens and young people gathering before lockdown totally shitting all over the rule of 6. I don't think the Cornish are magically more rule abiding than other people, it's due to the factors above combined.

Yes. Exactly.

I don't live there but I have relatives that do. In their road -all but 2 are owned by people that let them out - so hardly anyone living in their road right now. Please don't think because you aren't following the rules -I am, that's the reason -the reason in the main is school spread- I'm no Sherlock Holmes but larger schools = more spread.

This thread is hilarious OP, well done! 😂