Potential infected city dwellers flee to west country to isolate in holiday camps.
Potential infected city dwellers flee to west country to isolate in holiday camps.
The Issue
Some greedy holiday camp owners are telling people from outside the West Country to come here to isolate them selves. Car loads of people from worst affected areas such as London and the Midlands are arriving to fill every Holiday camp, holiday cottage, hotels and B&B.
There is insufficient hospital space for the residents as is and the last thing the health services and residents of these areas need is a massive influx of more people especially not if they come from areas where the infection rate is already higher.
What is the point of shutting bars, pubs theatres etc if you are allowing holiday camps to stay open? We do not have the infrastructure here, this will just spread the virus even further, put more stress on our already overwhelmed West Country hospitals, emergency services and GP's and very probably mean more deaths.
Put in a county wide isolation, stay at home means stay at home, not come down and create an impossible situation for the health service and the residents
If all holiday camps, B&B's and hotels were closed for the summer then this could not happen. Any resident of Devon or Cornwall knows the holiday makers can triple the population and cause huge pressure on food, fuel and transport and we all know hospitals are often overwhelmed in a normal summer.
This will not only be a west country problem as it will soon spread nationwide to other fundamentally rural areas and holiday destinations.
This needs to stop now and they must all go home. I do not want to die because someone thought of a way to increase their income and people thought of how jolly it would be to isolate down by the sea.
GO HOME.

The Issue
Some greedy holiday camp owners are telling people from outside the West Country to come here to isolate them selves. Car loads of people from worst affected areas such as London and the Midlands are arriving to fill every Holiday camp, holiday cottage, hotels and B&B.
There is insufficient hospital space for the residents as is and the last thing the health services and residents of these areas need is a massive influx of more people especially not if they come from areas where the infection rate is already higher.
What is the point of shutting bars, pubs theatres etc if you are allowing holiday camps to stay open? We do not have the infrastructure here, this will just spread the virus even further, put more stress on our already overwhelmed West Country hospitals, emergency services and GP's and very probably mean more deaths.
Put in a county wide isolation, stay at home means stay at home, not come down and create an impossible situation for the health service and the residents
If all holiday camps, B&B's and hotels were closed for the summer then this could not happen. Any resident of Devon or Cornwall knows the holiday makers can triple the population and cause huge pressure on food, fuel and transport and we all know hospitals are often overwhelmed in a normal summer.
This will not only be a west country problem as it will soon spread nationwide to other fundamentally rural areas and holiday destinations.
This needs to stop now and they must all go home. I do not want to die because someone thought of a way to increase their income and people thought of how jolly it would be to isolate down by the sea.
GO HOME.

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Petition created on 21 March 2020