Similar 'don't come to cornwall' message on facebook.
I'd point out the following: People that bought second homes - spent money locally , took the initiative to give themselves a bolt-hole in case of city issues etc should be considered as pre-emptive refugees.
Everyone is scared and doing what they think is best for themselves and their family.
Reality is that if/when this really bites hard then what limited ICU space will have to be shared and folk moved about to wherever there may be capacity. Frankly I'm appalled at the notion that someone would deny a free bed to a 'townie' just in case a local needed it.
Most of us are here are rural (obviously) and like most of you my nearest hospital is 30 miles away but my nearest Welsh hospital is over 100miles away. Your attitude is that since i moved to wales i shouldn't get treated 30 miles away but take my chances queueing at an over-subscribed facility way further?
I'd guess Cornish folk would rather croak than take up a free bed outside their area?
Sadly we do have the thickies and the unthinking that feel a day out shouldn't be hampered by the fact everyone else thought a sunny day up Snowdon was a good idea and younger folk believe they are safe to group not realising they'll go home and give it to less safe folk.
I'm biting my tongue pgkevet !!!!
I'm not. Try to be less of a dick, pgkevet
Of course we wouldn't deny a townie a bed. What we are saying is that if you live somewhere with lots of hospitals and lots of beds, please stay there and don't come into areas - like Cornwall and parts of Wales - where there are very few beds.
And yes of course we would happily go to hospital in Devon, don't be such a provocative muppet!!! Where I live, we regard Barnstaple and Exeter (both in Devon) as our local major hospitals. But Devon is getting a lot of cases of its own, and if they don't have spare capacity when Cornwall's beds are full...
For your information, the population of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly was around 550,000 in 2015/6. There are a total of 750 beds of all types in Cornwall's hospitals. That's approx 1.36 beds per 1,000 people. The national average is 2.54 per 1,000. The national average on ICU beds is 6.6 per 100,000. So we should have 36 in Cornwall, yes? I can't find a validated figure but I read earlier this week that we have 10. TEN. And our population has a higher average age than the national average too, so will place higher demands on hospital beds for this disease.
As to you implying that the "go home" messages apply to people who have moved here and live here, that's not the case at all (in Cornwall, at least, can't speak for Wales.) It's aimed at people deciding to book a cottage and do their isolation here instead of London; people who have a second home as a holiday home ditto.
It's a plea to people who have a home where there is better hospital bed availability than here, to please stay there and use their local facilities. To not come and swamp ours, leaving none for us.
