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Rural areas and plague tourists

teuchter said:
The thread is about rural areas which are popular with tourists and visitors. I'm saying that post lockdown, people who haven't had access to open, attractive outdoors space should be allowed to go there and enjoy it, taking reasonable mitigation measures and behaving responsibly, without the people who live there and have been able to enjoy those kinds of spaces throughout lockdown complaining about them. From what you say, it sounds like you are in the category of people who haven't had access. So I am saying that post lockdown, you should be able to go and enjoy that beach or those mountains, without people living in those places resenting you. Do you disagree?
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I don't, but your previous post seemed to imply something completely different.
 
teuchter said:
The thread is about rural areas which are popular with tourists and visitors. I'm saying that post lockdown, people who haven't had access to open, attractive outdoors space should be allowed to go there and enjoy it, taking reasonable mitigation measures and behaving responsibly, without the people who live there and have been able to enjoy those kinds of spaces throughout lockdown complaining about them. From what you say, it sounds like you are in the category of people who haven't had access. So I am saying that post lockdown, you should be able to go and enjoy that beach or those mountains, without people living in those places resenting you. Do you disagree?
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I think this is something that should be decided on a case-by-case basis.
 
souljacker said:
Smells like shit, terrible broadband and you need to climb the nearest hill to make a call on your mobile.
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Bizarrely, and not what I was expecting, the pictures I posted on the first page of this thread went via 5G - and I haven't even had my Covid jab yet...
 
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One point on the ability of locals to enjoy the countryside. Probably true to an extent but in the lakes it's socially unacceptable to walk the high fells during lockdowns.

People just aren't doing it, because mountain rescue is made up of nurses, doctors and firemen who have better things to be doing than rescuing walkers.
 
Most of the countryside near me, and there is a lot of it, is off-limits to people who don't own the land. Many of the public footpaths dead-end at main roads and car parks so just going for a nice walk without using the car is not particularly simple. There are so-called 'national routes' on the OS maps that involve walking across narrow bridges with no pavements on busy 60mph roads.
 
I am curious to see what happens when the shops and cafes and everything re-open, whether there’ll still be large numbers of people coming here to just walk in the woods, bring their children to jump in puddles and collect sticks etc. Since the start of the plague it’s been busy, but will they keep coming when there’s shopping malls to go to instead.
 
SpookyFrank said:
Most of the countryside near me, and there is a lot of it, is off-limits to people who don't own the land. Many of the public footpaths dead-end at main roads and car parks so just going for a nice walk without using the car is not particularly simple. There are so-called 'national routes' on the OS maps that involve walking across narrow bridges with no pavements on busy 60mph roads.
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So, you're in the category of people without easy access to the countryside in lockdown, who I am sticking up for in this thread.
 
bimble said:
I am curious to see what happens when the shops and cafes and everything re-open, whether there’ll still be large numbers of people coming here to just walk in the woods, bring their children to jump in puddles and collect sticks etc. Since the start of the plague it’s been busy, but will they keep coming when there’s shopping malls to go to instead.
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I'm curious about that too, also in places like London. Last weekend's walk took in the Japanese Zen garden in Holland park which was basically just a big queue of people in a circle along the path. And some (not me naturally as I don't make these kinds of judgements) might have said they were the "sort of people" you might normally expect to spend their Saturday afternoon in Selfridges and the like.
 
teuchter said:
I'm curious about that too, also in places like London. Last weekend's walk took in the Japanese Zen garden in Holland park which was basically just a big queue of people in a circle along the path. And some (not me naturally as I don't make these kinds of judgements) might have said they were the "sort of people" you might normally expect to spend their Saturday afternoon in Selfridges and the like.
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1/10 - Must try harder.
 
teuchter said:
I'm curious about that too, also in places like London. Last weekend's walk took in the Japanese Zen garden in Holland park which was basically just a big queue of people in a circle along the path. And some (not me naturally as I don't make these kinds of judgements) might have said they were the "sort of people" you might normally expect to spend their Saturday afternoon in Selfridges and the like.
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Tbf on sunny days that's always like that
 
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