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?

Yes

@jambeforeclottedcream sorry I quoted the wrong person! Please ignore
Was for the poster before you

And have done for all of my life

Ahhh ok I'll get down from my rant

Well said, this exactly

It’s obviously the protective powers of a saffron bun!

No, really, OP, it’s that Cornwall is right at the end of the country, you can only get to it through Devon which is also fairly low in mostly places (an’ if it weren’t the Cornish would quickly shut the bleddy border). The border is relatively short at just 65 miles (the coastline is

How exactly does someone age 29, who works as a teacher, living in a flat in Manchester manage to 'live more like someone in Cornwall'?

They evidently need to eat more clotted cream. Scones not needed, just a spoon.

I live up the borders end of the county - Derriford for us, not Treliske!

Live by the seaside and eat pasties ? Sounds good . And
that will keep the Covid at bay ? Even better

Totally agree with @RhubarbTea analysis.

Also, we are probably the county that had to prepare more than any other for a massive influx of people when the first lockdown ended in July.

Authorities and businesses prepared extremely well for that and we have continued to live and operate by those watertight principles ever since.

Caveat: I don’t know how this compares to other parts of the U.K. as I haven’t travelled anywhere outside of Cornwall in 2020 at all and noone I know locally had either 😂

My extended family lives in Cornwall. I live in Oxfordshire. We're on the same number of cases, but Oxon is Tier 2. I guess it must be because we're surrounded by counties with higher rates.

I know that Cornwall only has one official hospital but surely the Devon hospitals are used as well by the Cornish? I know a couple of Cornish men who were born in the Plymouth hospital yet still insist they are Cornish? And my son was injured in an accident years ago in North Cornwall at an adventure park but the ambulance took him to a hospital in Barnstable. In the same way I’ve used mainly London hospitals but also hospitals in Berks/Bucks. Does anyone go to other hospitals or can you only use the Truro hospital?

@Dreamscomingtrue we use derriford in Plymouth and we have a number of small community hospitals.

Personally I’m in deepest darkest Cornwall. I go to work and come home. I don’t see people. Even pre covid I was isolated. I love living this way and it seems that this is what has kept us safe.

Gosh op there's a million other factors you haven't taken into consideration with your post!

@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.

Errr, the secondary school my youngest goes to has over 1000 pupils. His primary/junior had more than 300 pupils.

Where are people getting these figures from?

I think it’s generally that historically more complex medicine gets passed out of Trekiske onto Derriford (or even Bristol, depending on the severity). At the start of the pandemic Treliske had 15 ICU beds for a catchment population of nearly 0.5m people. Advanced age generally within the population also means that early in the pandemic there was a worry that the unit would fill quickly and people would not get treatment. I’m sure the capacity and ability to cope at Treliske has increased but the population are still very much more worried that there won’t be a bed for them.

A few years ago my mum had an operation that was too complex for a Treliske and spent several weeks in Derriford, and my dad sees a consultant in either Plymouth or Exeter because that’s the closest clinic for that service (they live in west Cornwall).

Please explain what the many thousands of people living in cramped tower blocks in London should learn from Cornwall OP.

Honestly

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.

This. I hope your son is okay.

If you compare it to Lancashire which is tier 3, Cornwall is bigger but only has about a third of the population.

Dreamscomingtrue Barnstaple hospital is small itself (8 ICU beds for the population of north Devon, 90,000 people).

Cornwall have 1 City for a huge area f the country..... Enough said

I wouldn't infer anything from tier categories that implies they're logical. Prior to lock down we were tier3 whilst my parents area was tier1 despite having more cases per 100,000

Pasties, and knowing which way round the jam and cream go. That's the secret.

This is becoming a little Cornwall bashing by people making stuff up who have never been to Cornwall