Why can't some people just comply?

I  quite agree DEBSC ~~  this world is full of highly educated and qualified Idiots !!

 I still accept the old Dictum that :~~ Common Sense is not very Common !!

On a more positive note, this self destruct mechanism probably helps to keep the gene pool in balance!

The ones who frighten me are those who think close proximity to potentially lethal conditions is a fun holiday experience for their kids! One minute smiling and laughing, the next swept away by forces nobody can resist. Try as many do, messages about water safety just don’t get through to some.

I always worry about "our lot" (my family) getting into difficulties, many years ago our middle daughter, aged about eleven, swam a long way out to sea on the Lleyn Peninsula. Luckily when she reached a headland she swam back, children and adults often don't see the dangers. Non life guarded beaches, undertows, receding tides, the sea is a very powerful force.

I saw this clip of a rescue in Dorset, lucky man to have those people around! 

BBC Human Chain Rescue LINK

Unfortunately it seems to becoming more common. Wether it be folk not heeding advice on water safety, wearing flip flops on mountains or walking under trees in full leaf in a gale such as today. Then of course the rescue services put their lives on the line, to try and pull them out of a situation they should never have got into.

Even before the virus and in all situations, work, school, shopping malls, campsites, roads... there are those who do not follow either common sense or advice, or rules. It is sadly just the way things have always been. 

If it only affected them that would be great.

Lucky toddler in Staithes. Somehow,🤷‍♀️ had fallen into harbour. Local lad, just eleven years old, jumped in and performed rescue. Both unharmed, toddler checked out at hospital. The grateful parents gave him a tenner. 🤨Personally, I would have locked them up. Frankly, some parenting is so shocking it makes you want to scream. Who in their right mind is so inattentive that a toddler can fall into a flooded harbour........

Accidents with children can happen in a split second, even with the best of parents. Most of the problems with the sea this summer seem to involve fully fledged adults.