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?

They really believed it. I’m from the SW and I don’t think the uv levels are that different here to Cornwall.

[quote MrsHarryKane]@DobbyTheHouseElk I have to say (as a Cornish person) it’s probably reflective of the poor education and schooling that we have down here.....

Or perhaps the abundance of Doom Bar and Tarquins gin [/quote]
I blame the Radon myself!

I love how so far we have had Saffron Buns (FlamingoLingo) Tarquins gin & doom bar protecting us. Can i also had that the Rattler; Clotted Cream; Cornish pixies and pasties have their done their bit too

And a bit of mizzle over the moor keeps us healthy!

And a pint of Proper Job too.

I have had considerably less pasties this year.

I have had considerably less pasties this year

I had three Philps last week

Don’t forget the arsenic - that’s bound to scare off the virus.

I might not be the brightest bulb at bingo but i do feel proud of our food & drink (and radon) supply 😂

I put it down to the da bara cinnamon buns myself

Or Baker Tom’s sour dough

Also there are no multiple trips to supermarkets in Cornwall. If you forget butter and its a 90min round trip to Tescos - you do without until the next shopping trip.
I think there is generally less roaming around in places with lots of people.

All very good radioactive substances and food & drink reasons why we have kept covid at bay

Oh do fuck off.

My northern industrial town spends all its time trying to be more Cornwall 🙄

I very much hope the Cornish don’t take advantage of any goods and services produced in those minging infected northern sess pools.

Hah, I'm Cornish living elsewhere and order regular care parcels of cinnamon buns from Da Bara. Too many summer jobs in pasty shops though mean I can't even look at them.

One of the key factors has got to be the lack of mobility and travel around the county? Public transport is awful anyway, but Cornwall is huge and I know my family have all barely travelled at all during lockdown. Loads of people in the poorer areas never leave their locality.

Only 15 critical care beds though so I'm surprised they're in 1 really.

@Breadandroses1 you're right, I've stuck to my village and the town 10 miles away. Odd trip a bit further, but not left Cornwall (apart from appts at Derriford).
I think that's what most are doing round here. Going for a wander round the shops was never really a done thing in Cornwall - you'd have to travel to Plymouth or Exeter for a good choice of shops, not a quick afternoon stroll, so we don't really feel like much has changed!
It's a very different lifestyle than many places in the U.K. - you stay close to home, and if you don't drive you're buggered! Next to no buses, and trains only from main towns. No way to connect between villages and towns unless paying expensive taxis.
And takeaways? What are those? No deliveries direct from towns, let alone e Just Eat etc.

Do you have work? In a factory? On a production line?

Firstly - there are 5 secondaries in a 5 mile radius of where I live all with over a 1000 pupils.

People were very concerned back in March that there were so few ICU beds in Treliske and that would have made people possibly more cautious. I believe they managed to increase the number of beds something like 4 fold.

Elderly population = more isolating??

Not sure about the vit D thing, but as someone who avoids sunbathing I can get a tan just doing the school run and hanging the washing out - high UV levels.

Generally we have been lucky due to geography and an older demographic possibly.

Back at the end of August our numbers per 100,000 were about 4 ..they peaked (since then) at 90 ish and have dropped back to 51 today.

It definitely seems to have been more luck than judgement and there is no room for complacency.

@Aworldofmyown

Also there are no multiple trips to supermarkets in Cornwall. If you forget butter and its a 90min round trip to Tescos - you do without until the next shopping trip. I think there is generally less roaming around in places with lots of people.

There is you know, we've got ASDA, Tesco, Sainsbury's and Lidl all within 5 minutes of us. The majority in the town could get there in 10 minutes.

If we really pushed the boat out, 30 minutes gets you to a "big Tesco".

We aren't all in the sticks. 90 minutes to a supermarket and I'd be shopping in Plymouth!!

I was just confused as to what being ‘more like the Cornish’ meant and how that might work if you lived in say, a London borough.

I suppose 'up country' is similar to 'up north' but the latter ignores lots of southern England.

You could start calling tourists emmets, but again that doesn't work because London tourists are year round.

So, at the risk off pissing off everyone in Cornwall by stereotyping - eat more pasties and Kelly's icecream.

Funnily enough though at several points our London borough has had lower levels than Cornwall. It's very close now.

(Roskillys beats Kelly's hands down on the ice cream front)

The best ice cream I ever had was on the beach at St Agnes (I think) it was called a hedgehog and covered with cream and nuts made to look like a hog.

If we are getting into ice cream territory then Jelbert’s of Newlyn is probably the best in the world (as long as you like vanilla), or Moomaid!!

Just came on to say @RhymesWithOrange I absolutely love the word peninsularity.

I live on a peninsula (not Cornwall) and I aim to try to work this word into my life more.

Levels of compliance where I live are high, and the community spirit and helping each other out is amazing. We have had a very high number of cases though.
Maybe it relates to the length of ones peninsularity.

@carlywurly

I put it down to the da bara cinnamon buns myself

You are talking my language!