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I live in Dorset and feel fairly sure that if the lockdown was removed entirely tomorrow that hotel bookings for next weekend bank holiday would take off. It is a paradox that there seems reservations in parents sending children back to school but they appear happy to take them to the beaches and parks.
Not really since school is out of their control and their child would have to be close to others who MIGHT be carrying the bug, not their child but others....
They know that only they will be going to the beach or park so there is no problem with lots of others, and each family holds the same view. You have only to see the film today of the steps to access Lulworth Cove to see how many families each hold the view of their uniqueness. Estimated number of people is 2,500 at ONE place and it was far from unique....
They will never catch the bug because they are too important. / well off / clean / following the rules and so on. Each person of the many hundreds thinks they will be by themself at their chosen destination.
Even though they are perhaps one person in two thousand, five hundred on the beach, using the access steps etc. remember the Government estimate that 1 in 400 is carrying the bug....
So passing close to another person on the steps carries a risk - I hope no-one was coughing, or sneezing (hay fever ?) or wheezing or spraying droplets as they talk.....
But they won't catch the bug.....
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