And you are a nasty little fascist.
Thousands of Britons flocked to beaches today to bask in 80F temperatures as police warned lockdown-breaking campers to keep away after many ignored no staying overnight rules amid fears of a second spike of coronavirus deaths.
Devon and Cornwall’s police and crime commissioner Alison Hernandez warned people to ‘think twice’ before they ‘break the rules by staying overnight, parking illegally or driving dangerously’. It came after her officers sent illegal campers home from Newquay and six people were killed or badly injured on the roads over the past five days.
Even if you think that the lock-down was a good idea (it wasn’t) the rate of infection has dropped as was expected as we got into the summer. You can only keep people locked down for so long before the dam bursts and it looks as if that is what is happening now. And that’s a good thing. Those people are doing no harm. The likelihood of them infecting others is extremely low. The risk, what there was of it, was massively over stated by hysterical far left activists journalists who have persistently spouted death statistics with absolutely no context whatsoever. What will happen is that slowly people will go back to normal and realise that they were conned by these charlatans. Sure, there will be a second wave of infections and a third and so on. We will have to live with this virus just as we have to live with influenza and the common cold and it will cull those who are knocking on death’s door anyway. Yes, yes, I know, it has a higher kill rate than flu. But it is still below 1%, unlike say, bubonic plague that had a kill rate of 30%, so perhaps some perspective is in order here. You have to die of something. For example, my grandmother died of respiratory failure at the age of 93. That was what was on the death certificate. It was perfectly natural – she was 93, after all.
So to Alison Hernandez, I would say “fuck you and the horse you rode into town on, you nasty little fascist.”
Hopefully, the mass disobedience will reach a point where Plod is no longer able to control it. I can’t help wondering if this was the plan when BJ made his announcement last week. But maybe I’m reading too much into it.
I suspect that the vast majority of us in Devon are finally beginning to realise that, if no-one’s got it, you can’t catch it.
And I agree with your succinct description of our Police & Crime Commissioner too. Are there any decent ones in the country? You don’t seem to hear much about them if there are
Is that a rhetorical question?
The NPCC document released on the 13th May admits they can’t:
The dam can’t burst soon enough. And I’ve a little list (I lied, it’s huge) of those I’d like to see swept away never to be heard of again. We can but hope.
What have illegal parking and dangerous driving got to do with it?
As for the lockdown, isn’t getting plenty of fresh air and sunshine more likely to protect you from getting infected or give you a better outcome if you do?
I’ve been spending a lot of time sorting out my garden so I’ve been getting plenty of sun. I’ve also been to the garden centre for some plants and seeds and also a fan rake. I think that it is good to support the businesses that are being allowed to open as much as I can.
went out on my bike today and noticed a lot of small shops open. on closer inspection, they seemed to be packing up and moving out. High streets are dying bit by bit. When the populous emerges blinking into the light, the scene is going to be a shock. What a disaster.
Hard to see what plod can do since we are ‘permitted’ to take as much outdoor exercise as we like.
Foreshorten photos to make crowds look crowdier, oldest trick in the photojournalist book.
I wonder how many of the visitors are teaching staff who have not had time in 8 weeks to get their schools Covid safe when it took Tesco’s about 48 hours.
Closing the car parks when anticipating a busy weekend, good money making scam for the enforcement crowd.
Is not camping overnight a specific Covid Regulation or just normal by laws?
Given we just learned that Thames Valley police farce used legislation only applicable to Wales on a teenager in Oxford, why do you assume the police understand that we are ‘allowed to take as much outdoor exercise as we like’..?
If you get hassled by the police while on the beach, just utter the magic words: “I’m an Irish traveller, officer.”
Julia, you beat me to it: my thoughts exactly.
Cynics, the pair of you. Ahem…
Those people with camper vans. I guess they must have been from the travelling community so you can understand why they were nor welcome and the police moved them on.
Camper vans, not so much.