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The Daily Mail just reached an unbelievably dangerous new low

Emily Apple by Emily Apple
22 March 2020
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On 21 March, the Daily Mail reached an unbelievably dangerous new low in its coverage on the coronavirus (Covid-19). As people across the country were urged to stay at home to limit the spread of the virus, and people in rural areas begged tourists to stay away, the Mail published the following article:

Irresponsible and dangerous

Many people on Twitter couldn’t believe the Mail thought it was a good idea to publish the piece:

 

 

https://twitter.com/cliodiaspora/status/1241391530771791873?s=20

Daily mail suggesting places like Jura to go to get away. An Island with a tiny population,
little housing that's 2 ferry rides from the mainland with very limited medical services anywhere nearby. Hmm can't see any problems there. Fucking irresponsible fuckwits. 😤

— Caliburn M (@CaliburnM) March 22, 2020

@MailOnline "Britain;s Brilliant Boltholes"

ARE . YOU . FUCKING. MAD

Irresponsible crap like this could KILL people

Remote islands like Jura have no cases of virus and an aged population
Encouraging "Virus Tourism" to places with little health infrastructure is CRIMINAL

— Alastair McIntyre (@AlastairMcInty2) March 21, 2020

And this “rant” summed up how a lot of people felt:

Stay at home

As The Canary reported on 21 March, tourists are being asked to stay away from Cornwall and other areas to avoid spreading the virus and putting struggling services under even more pressure.

Cornwall, for example, only has one major hospital that was at breaking point before the pandemic. On 3 January, the BBC stated that Royal Cornwall Hospital was taking the “unprecedented” move of turning away people with minor injuries and the hospital stated that:

We have had patients waiting in the emergency department for beds for up to 12 hours and queues in the corridors

This is the only critical care unit in the region, and that unit only has 15 beds.

Meanwhile, in Wales, people started taking direct action to stop the influx of tourists:

Non-violent direct action by Snowdonia communities, desperate to stop the flood of isolation-seekers/holidaymakers/selfish, self-centred so and so’s who piled in yesterday. #COVIDー19 #QuaratineLife #coronavirus #StayAtHome #SocialDistancing #PhysicalDistancing #CoronaCrisisuk pic.twitter.com/FTD8iQfSA8

— Tristan (@_WhoCares_84) March 22, 2020

Across the UK, people flocked to beaches. In Lincolnshire, police and crime commissioner Mark Jones claimed there were “hundreds of thousands of visitors”. And dentist in Skegness posted on Facebook that:

I was appalled to see as I drove home Skegness looking like it does on a busy summer day…We are a small town. We have a cottage hospital supported by two main district hospitals and this is a disaster waiting to happen.

Just stay at home!

The data showing how quickly coronavirus is spreading around the UK is terrifying. We already know this number will go up as it will take two to three weeks for social distancing and other measures to have an impact.

But these measures won’t have an impact if idiotic people continue living their lives as normal. This is not a drill. This is all our lives. If you’ve got a home, be grateful and just stay there. This is not the time for a holiday. Don’t spread this virus any further. Stay away from rural communities and please, let’s work together to keep everyone safe and flatten the curve.

Even for the Daily Mail, this feature is an all-time dangerous low. This type of ‘journalism’ is putting lives on the line in rural communities. It should be ashamed.

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