I think a bit of sanity needs to be injected here. Firstly, Bournemouth beach:
//they need to close all beauty spots till this is under control,//
Bournemouth beach is enormous. There are more than eighty points of entry to it, some from car parks, some from roads, some from footpaths, many from a promenade that stretches for quite a distance. Preventing people going on to it would be near enough impossible and in any case it is completely unjustified.
//Maybe the beaches could remain open, if there were people to enforce social distancing and implement, say, a one-out-one-in policy like they're doing at most supermarkets - i.e. have a maximum number of people on the beach at any given time.//
See above. A supermarket has one or perhaps two points of entry. Control is easy. With 80+ points of entry it is not.
//police patrolling them and issuing fines to those flouting the law maybe?//
There were around 500,000 people on Bournemouth beach yesterday. How many police will it take to "patrol" them? More than that, the only law I could see being flouted (and I didn’t see much of it) was gatherings of more than six people who are not all from the same household. “Social Distancing” is guidance. It is not the law. If people want to sit closer than 2m to each other that’s their choice.
Now generally:
//This won't last forever.//
//Oh no Bobbi, Is this never going to end??//
No it won’t last forever. But it will last far too long to expect people to behave unnaturally. When lockdown first began I forecast that the beginning of June would see the start of it being widely ignored. I was a little bit out, but even if the rules had not been relaxed to allow more travel, I believe people would have travelled nonetheless. It is completely unrealistic to expect people to remain where they are especially when 10m are not at work and most of their children are not at school.
I supported the lockdown when it was first implemented. Its aim was to stop the NHS being overwhelmed. Now it has gone on far too long and the goalposts seem to have been moved. The focus seems to have shifted to trying to prevent the spread of the virus at all (which cannot be done). The remaining businesses that are to be allowed to open next week are hamstrung by pages of “guidance” which will be enforced as law and which will make many of those businesses untenable.
The emphasis must shift to properly protecting the vulnerable so that they need not go out if they don’t want to. The remainder of the population must be free to return to normality - and quickly.