It's interesting to compare responses: UK police stopping people from sitting on Brighton beach: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/brighton-beach-police-checkpoint-lo

It's interesting to compare responses: UK police stopping people from sitting on Brighton beach: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/brighton-beach-police-checkpoint-lockdown-coronavirus-172845913.html https://uk.news.yahoo.com/brighton-beach-police-checkpoint-l... LA saying you can go to the beach, but you're not allowed to sit down or take an umbrella: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-12/coronavirus-beaches-reopen-los-angeles-county-move-toward-new-normal https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-12/coronavi... In Vancouver people are flocking to the beach, but mostly following social distancing, and BC's chief health officer is fine with that (she has said in the past that people should get outside, as the risk of catching the virus while walking past someone outside is infinitessimal): https://bc.ctvnews.ca/just-how-crowded-are-b-c-beaches-pictures-highlight-how-perspectives-can-mislead-1.4935162 https://bc.ctvnews.ca/just-how-crowded-are-b-c-beaches-pictu... I think BC's response is the only one that is based on science, logic and reason, whereas the UK, San Francisco and LA seem to be having a more extreme lockdown that isn't really based on any kind of logic and is just going to piss people off and negatively affect mental health.