Wow. I posted this picture of Bournemouth beach, taken earlier, today. It got quite a response -- some of it shocked me. A thread:
1. "Do you know how it feels to live in a one-bedroom flat?"

Yes, welcome to my life.
2. "Great to see!. People awake to the scam."

As of Monday, 36,914 people have died with coronavirus. Doesn& #39;t sound like much of a scam to me.
4. "You are the real problem. You do you, obey your control structure, stay home, wash your hands every 5 minutes and you& #39;ll be fine mate."

The abuse towards the media has been a constant. We& #39;re accused of scaremongering when we are telling people what& #39;s going on. It& #39;s worrying.
5. "Is the pic even from today?"

See also:

"It was not that busy!"
"Clever camera angles!"

This is a picture, from today, from PA, a UK British news source. I& #39;m sure many people on the beach observed social distancing - I didn& #39;t say they hadn& #39;t - helluva lot of people tho.
6. "Everybody looks like they& #39;re dying!"

Flippant. There& #39;s less risk of the virus outdoors, but crowding isn& #39;t good. Should there be an impact, we may not know for weeks.

Everyone seemed fine at Cheltenham Festival in March, there are still fears it was a super-spreader event:
7. "Dominic Cummings has a lot to answer for!"

Common theme. To be even-handed, Cummings& #39; alleged breach of lockdown rules may prove to have not helped public morale, but I doubt it was the sole factor in today& #39;s exodus to Bournemouth beach.
8. "Other beaches were nice and quiet!"

I& #39;m very sure they were.
9. "Well, they might just as well knock everything on the head and go back to normal. No point having any lockdown."

I can understand why some will feel dejected — everyone& #39;s having a nice time, why can& #39;t I?

Scientific advice shows restrictions do help, even if there& #39;s a blip.
10. "The beach will always be there but your health won’t.
All the seafront car parks where full up today, so the beach was busy !"

A good point. Even if this is okay on the beach, crowding en route/nearby is a problem.
Just to stress — I& #39;m not biased to one side. I& #39;m not sharing dishonest photos. I& #39;m not accusing every beachgoer on a bank holiday of being reckless.

I& #39;m just surprised by the polarisation in my mentions. Lockdown morale is slipping. (And there seems to be LOADS of bots.)
I shared this photo because a beach on a sunny bank holiday took me by surprise, and some of the responses here on Twitter (even though it isn& #39;t representative of the real world) shocked me even more.

OK, I& #39;ll have a gin now.
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