yesterday I was discharged from Torbay Hospital after 4 days having been blue lighted in. I asked the question of one of the registrars. Cornwall has no high density of University students Many of the East Cornwall cases get sent to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth where they get reported. . Devon has 2 large universities Plymouth and Exeter - students from all over , outside activities, people holiday and second home owners come from all over but come for relatively short time, come healthy go away healthy and spend a lot of time outside. Dartmouth they think suffers from day trippers. Chap in the next bed came from a village near Dartmouth and was part of the conversation and believes Dartmouth suffers from day trippers who come and go. Large urban areas suffer the most not too many of those down here. I am told by a friend who is an artists and works and sells her work in Salcombe that Salcombe is very quiet at the moment. The medic also felt the government were panicking about the new strain, it is spreading faster but is it as serious?
I would go along with that theory as Herefordshire where I used to live in the UK is also Tier 1, no one goes there as they think it's Hertfordshire. It is a very rural area with no Universities, no Motorways just a lot of cattle with beautiful small Black and White Timber villages. Even Hereford is a small city with not a great deal of coming and going with the "Boys" (SAS) keeping themselves to themselves.
