Obey Beside The Seaside

at

Bournemouth, Dorset, England this afternoon

Oh.

Via MailOnline:

A major incident was declared in Bournemouth today after thousands of people flocked to Britain’s beaches leaving the emergency services ‘stretched to the absolute hilt’ on the second consecutive hottest day of the year.

Council bosses said they were ‘appalled‘ at the scenes on the Dorset coast, blasting the ‘irresponsible behaviour and actions of so many people’ as temperatures soared towards 93F (34C) in southern England and Wales today

Get off our sand! Police tell thousands of day-trippers packed onto Bournemouth beach in 91F heat to go home (Mail Online)

Pic: PA

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63 thoughts on “Obey Beside The Seaside

    1. paul

      yeah but you have to get the sunlight INSIDE the body to cure a person. The human cheeto said so.

      1. Janet, dreams of spidercrab and fancy pastries

        I always thought Brazil was pretty hot an sunny, so what’s the craic there

      1. Cian

        Perhaps they are too hot, and everyone jumps from one air-conditioned location to another?

        1. Janet, dreams of spidercrab and fancy pastries

          there’s feck all air conditioning India unless you have a few bob

    2. paul

      speaking plainly though, it kills the virus on a surface in 30 minutes. That’s 30 minutes uninterrupted direct exposure to sunlight (doesn’t specify a temperature but I assume very hot). Not much good in crowds though where it’s aerosolised droplet transmission that does the damage.

      It does make a difference to people wiping down surfaces in outdoor restaurants though so I’m sure those folks are delighted to read that article.

      1. Dr.Fart

        but sure Brazil are getting blitzed by the virus, same with Florida, italy spain did too. All v sunny and hot. They just dont know a lot about the virus, and it keeps changing too. All sorts of speculation, but no one really knows. The scary thing is it’s been given so much room to evolve in america that there’s smarter strains of it coming into existence.

          1. Dr.Fart

            brilliant article. I don’t think we’ll go into lockdown again, because our economy driven Gov. won’t let it happen. I think another lockdown will be needed, but they’ll continue to change the numbers so people won’t even realise what’s happening. They’ll see how they didn’t need some of the private hospitals etc., and let the next outbreak go further and take more people, knowing they have bed space. They’ll sacrifice people for economy. They’d been like that for years, they won’t change now.

          2. realPolithicks

            Look at whats happening in states like Florida, Texas and even California as they are opening up again. Here in Massachusetts we’ve done a decent job at getting the virus under control after a poor start but we’re starting to open up more and more so it’ll be interesting how we progress over the next few weeks.

          3. Johnny

            I do fairly well over here but even I am a bit panicky about the economy,striking the right balance with so much conflicting information is almost impossible.

            A lot of America viewed it as a ‘city’ problem and were not very supportive towards NY-with the governor in Rhode Island placing state troopers on interstate highways to stop New Yorkers going to Marthas or the Cape-with friends like that…Fla was thinking banning us or POTUS was from leaving NY…so there is a little bit of huh yeah you guys were partying all spring while we were locked down…

            This is the first report I’ve reviewed on nursing homes in Mass-sorry realPolitics its the soldiers home in Holyoke-I’m working in Springfield coveting an old hydro power station / mill into an indoor farm so I’m very familiar with Holyoke and Baker.

            Bodger may utilize it in his amazing analysis on Ireland-its actually all very sad the state America is in,a superpower hobbled by a virus….Canada is starting look appealing…

            Cheat sheet:
            https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2020/06/24/charlie-baker-holyoke-soldiers-home-report

            Report:
            https://www.mass.gov/doc/report-to-governor-baker-re-holyoke-soldiers-home/download

            SOQ-there is some non peer reviewed studies showing no noticeable uptick but instinctively you’d have think it had some impact.

          4. SOQ

            @ realPolithicks- surely the whole point of lockdown was not to stop the thing but to slow it to the point where the health services could cope?

            It is going to run its course one way or another is what I mean. New Zealand was hailed as a success but how long are they going to have to keep the barriers up and at what cost?

          5. realPolithicks

            I don’t know why you think “it’s going to run it’s course” as we have seen in many places around the world that when they begin to open up they have recurrences of the disease. My feeling is that until a vaccine or a cure is found we will have to find ways as a society to exist with this disease firmly in our midst.

          6. SOQ

            It is going to run its course because that is what corona viruses do- it has a maximum two year life cycle- IF that is what it is.

            Do you not find it strange that once CoVid-19 appeared- nobody was dying from flu anymore?

          7. SOQ

            Me? I took up crochet- willi warmers to be exact.

            XL never sold online as the measurements were from an engineered specification.

            I’m like that.

          8. realPolithicks

            I don’t understand why you speak with such certainty considering you are simply giving your own opinion. I hope that what you say is correct, but I don’t believe it is. Only time will tell.

          9. SOQ

            Time will tell but hiding your face is cultural- it is just not going to happen here- and that absolute imbecile Harris says it should means even less chance of so.

          10. realPolithicks

            “Time will tell but hiding your face is cultural”

            I’m sorry but thats a lot of nonsense, just based on my own observances I would say that here in Massachusetts there is about 95% compliance for people wearing masks and thats across the board so if people in Ireland won’t wear a mask its down to lack of proper education by the government and frankly stupidity.

          11. SOQ

            You won’t be telling Irish people to hide their faces because of a nursing home virus- end of.

          12. Johnny

            Regarding protestors most whom wore masks, were peaceful and tried best to socially distant-the masks also became a us v cops-as most the NYPD did not wear masks-but they put ‘masks’ on badges….

            “New York City has not reported an uptick in Covid-19 cases many feared would come from weeks of mass protests against police brutality.”

            https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/06/24/new-york-city-reports-no-protest-related-upticks-in-covid-19-1294370

            https://theintercept.com/2020/06/03/nypd-badge-black-band/

  1. ReproBertie

    Clearly Britain’s teaboy Taoiseach was right to rely on “good solid British common sense” .

    1. Charger Salmons

      Bertie coming in strong and hard on the new Digitial Inferiority Complex Klaxon.
      And already a reliable culprit.
      A definite 7 on the WINKY-WOO scale.

          1. Charger Salmons

            Actually I’m in the grounds of Chateau Charger enjoying a large Bombay Sapphire and a top notch cigar on this balmy summer’s evening.
            Might throw a T-bone on the BBQ later.
            Yourself ? A Cidona and bag of Taytos ?

          2. Charlie

            Ewww! BBQ is sooo suburbia. I’ll be served stuffed quail accompanied by a red berry & earthy Oregon Pinot Noir. “T-bone steak and a cigar”!? Nasty!

      1. ReproBertie

        Poor old Spoofer. Rather than attempt to defend the indefensible he chooses to play with his “winky-woo” instead. It’s very like that self soothing thing that infants do.

      2. SOQ

        What the hell happened in Brixton last night Charger- the police were ran out of the place?

        1. Charger Salmons

          I’d say the cops were too busy enforcing Mayor Khan’s diversity targets …

    1. ReproBertie

      You’ll be delighted to hear the school meals programme has been extended throughout the summer. I know it was a cause that was close to your heart even though it means you’ll have to try and find a new stick to beat Ireland with.

      1. SOQ

        The school meals programme covers all of the Republic of Ireland now does it ???

        My mother was school canteen cook up north btw so- careful which nerve you thread on love.

        1. ReproBertie

          I don’t believe it covers all schools but I know it covers DEIS schools. The programme is aimed at schools in disadvantaged areas and disadvantaged pupils in other areas.

          1. Charger Salmons

            Not ALL schools you say ?
            Did it follow a campaign by ” a leading Irish footballer” ?
            Heh,heh,heh.

          2. ReproBertie

            No not all schools. Just to the children that need it. No idea why you think that’s a bad thing.

            Thankfully our government didn’t need a footballer to tell them what to do but acted on a campaign that has been run by parents for a number of months now.

          3. SOQ

            Kind of weird and I assumed it was a joke the first few times but ‘I loved your mother’s cooking’ became pretty much the handshake at her wake.

            Now you say not all children in the ROI have at least one decent meal a day- where is the Children’s Lives Matter marches?

  2. Charger Salmons

    ” acted on a campaign that has been run by parents for a number of months now. ”
    Which just happened to achieve success shortly after the UK decision.
    Funny dat.

  3. f_lawless

    BBC article from 21st May back when hundreds of thousands crowded England’s beach resorts :
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52754039

    “People living in seaside resorts have said they are ‘horrified’ by the influx of visitors as temperatures soared ahead of the bank holiday weekend.

    Thousands of people have headed to English beaches, with many apparently unconcerned about public health issues.

    ..’We’ve had days where we’ve had over 300,000 people come down here,’ councillor Martin Terry said”.

    If there wasn’t a surge in Covid-19 cases back then, is it at all likely there would be one after this? (rhetorical question)

    1. Cian

      If you look at the 7-day moving average of new cases for the UK, there has been a continual decrease in new cases from the start of May. The only exception to drop this is a slight bump around the 28th May.

      No way of knowing what caused this – but it just might have been because of the good weather a week earlier.

      https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

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