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?

I live here..have found that the locals have been afraid of visitors since covid and are vigilant with distancing and masks etc. I think everyone is very aware that people are visiting from highly infected areas and mingling less. There are people mingling within communities.

I have seen a lot if the looking out for each other, the community in my town is amazing and theres been so much charity, people rallying around to help the isolated, and in need.

My community is a bit more of a mixed bag wealth wise compared to some other parts of cornwall

just what @RhubarbTea said! We won’t stay in tier 2 for long....

Yes, you are right op. I live in a deprived town in the SE and the people here are animals.

That, and it is a big town, with lots of people living in high rise flats, very near a big hospital and a big train station.

But I think we could overcome those things if we just looked out for each other more like the people in Cornwall.

Isles of scilly- island
Isle of wight- island
Cornwall- the closest thing you can get to an island with one neighbour and no through traffic.

Surely it is not surprising that anywhere isolated from the rest is low

Cornwall is one of the least ethnically diverse parts of the U.K. As we have seen in places like Leicester, Blackburn & Bradford multi-generational households in the densely populated urban areas typically associated with deprived predominantly Asian communities result in stubbornly high levels of covid. Cornwall doesn’t have such areas, so it’s not surprising that covid transmission is much lower.

Highland, the various Scottish Island regions, the Scottish Borders etc are all similarly (well, more) rural with staggeringly low rates compared to the English average. England is just significantly more densely populated, so there aren't many truly rural areas to compare Cornwall to. Of course population density plays a huge role in transmission, it's obvious.

It grinds my gears that less densely populated places without intergenerational. living and huge schools do Covid avoidance 'better' than poor inner city areas like mine.

My son has Covid. We followed all the rules but we live in a built up inner city area in Birmingham where three children alone in his y10 class have Covid, caught at school.

It's not skill OP, it's postcode luck.

@bestbeforedateexpired
Did you see Simon Reeves recent mini series on Cornwall - looked at the structural issues of housing, employment, etc and how Covid has impacted.

I think Falmouth has a total population of approx 22,000, the uni has around 5000 students. Liverpool's student population alone is over 70,000. Can't really compare them as university cities

There was a study that showed that people living near to the coast have higher levels of vitamin D. I have wondered if that is a factor.

www.ecehh.org/news/coastal-vitamin-d/

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Falmouth University...[/quote]
I know, I was questioning the poster. The Tremough campus is about 2 miles from me.

Swale : not known for their intellectual capacity.... very much the ' trump' parallel... look at their voting history ..

[quote Ted27]@bestbeforedateexpired
Did you see Simon Reeves recent mini series on Cornwall - looked at the structural issues of housing, employment, etc and how Covid has impacted.

I think Falmouth has a total population of approx 22,000, the uni has around 5000 students. Liverpool's student population alone is over 70,000. Can't really compare them as university cities[/quote]
I'll have a look: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000pb6w/cornwall-with-simon-reeve

Isn’t it because there’s only about 25 people there and they’re isolated from the rest of the country? Not knocking the Cornish, they seem like a lovely people and their clotted cream is the best, but it’s a lot easier to not catch Covid when even the largest secondary school in the area only has 300 pupils or you aren’t crowding on a badly ventilated, underground railway system to get to your job.

Isn’t it because there’s only about 25 people there and they’re isolated from the rest of the country? Not knocking the Cornish, they seem like a lovely people and their clotted cream is the best, but it’s a lot easier to not catch Covid when even the largest secondary school in the area only has 300 pupils or you aren’t crowding on a badly ventilated, underground railway system to get to your job.

Oh ha ha ha. Let's all have a pop at people who live in Cornwall. For a start, our local secondary school has 1120 pupils and I live near a small town, not even St Austell or Truro.

I spend half my time in Cornwall, half my time in Oxfordshire. In terms of adherence to covid guidance etc, it's been around the same.

We're on the Isle of Wight, your fellow T1 buddies. I'd say it is more to do with limited travel to major hubs and geography tbh.

It's the Australia/New Zealand story all over isn't it. It's an end destination, no-one passing through, no heaving metropolitan centres, I can't imagine they're more saintly there than anywhere else tbh. It annoyed me a bit when was it Matt Hancock was congratulating them this morning for being so good, as many posters on here point out, how the hell can you be good or bad if you live in the middle of say Leeds, use public transport, work in busy place - it's comparing apples and pears and totally pointless

I took Matt Hancock thanking 'us' as an acknowledgement that Cornwall has just been in a national lockdown that wasn’t really aimed at Cornwall.

Thank Cap’n Ross

@MostDisputesDieAndNoOneShoots

Isn’t it because there’s only about 25 people there and they’re isolated from the rest of the country? Not knocking the Cornish, they seem like a lovely people and their clotted cream is the best, but it’s a lot easier to not catch Covid when even the largest secondary school in the area only has 300 pupils or you aren’t crowding on a badly ventilated, underground railway system to get to your job.

The largest secondary school has 300 people? What are you on about? Unless people live in Cornwall or they have some covid facts, don't comment stupid stuff made up

@Rosehip10

Things like housing density etc will pay a massive part - even in the "deprived" areas of Cornwall that people keep mentioning there will be far less density of housing, than say in large areas of social housing in Manchester. Also Cornwall does not have large communities where intergenerational living is the norm.

Why have you used quotation marks for deprived???

@MostDisputesDieAndNoOneShoots

Isn’t it because there’s only about 25 people there and they’re isolated from the rest of the country? Not knocking the Cornish, they seem like a lovely people and their clotted cream is the best, but it’s a lot easier to not catch Covid when even the largest secondary school in the area only has 300 pupils or you aren’t crowding on a badly ventilated, underground railway system to get to your job.

Bullshit I work in a secondary school in Cornwall which has 1500 schools on role

Admittedly it's one of the largest secondaries but theres several schh which have more than 300 kids in it

@jambeforeclottedcream
Again, what are you on about??
Do you live in Cornwall?