Actually, and not wanting to lob a grenade into the debate, I can comment as one who is living - and working in the NHS - in the Lake District.
There aren’t many signs saying you’re not welcome as you enter the National Park but to be honest we do have our fair share of nitwits in the community. We even had four tyres of a district nurses car slashed. She was staying at a friends empty holiday cottage to isolate from her family so she could carry on working and some plonker thought she was on holiday!
We were really worried about hoardes coming up here and swamping our hospitals. With a total population of less than a million in Cumbria, just under an average of two million enter the national park every weekend when it’s sunny. We really want you to come but just now, with only three acute hospitals and often a thirty-plus trip to the nearest ED we couldn’t cope.
Tourism is the life blood of the county and so many in the hospitality sector are losing their livelihoods just now. Yes, you can moan about feeling unwelcome but it’s a first world problem for you and you’ll get over it.
On a totally different matter, I’d be happy to keep the Great Whites out of the park. You block our roads and I can’t get past you on my way to the ED! (Maybe the pin came out of the grenade after all!).