foreign holidays - illegal from Monday 29th

Just reading it apples until the 17th May in line with current covid rules relaxation. I kind of get it though it doesn’t make it any less frustrating. What with different variants around and Europe falling behind in their rollout a few more months is doable. Hopefully towards the end of summer people can get away - that first cocktail and walk along the beach is going to feel so good when we finally get there! ( don’t know why I wrote cocktail I literally don’t drink cocktails) first beer!!
 
The vaccines appear effective against the variants. Very soon all vulnerable people will have been vaccinated And it’s looking like no person vaccinated have died from it and very few have become seriously ill. So the dark threat from the continent is probably no more than a flu. Also it all died out last summer anyway even without the vaccine.

The cynic in me thinks threatening a continued travel restriction, thus damaging the economies of many European countries is just another weapon in our armoury of the fight over vaccines, trade and many other areas with europe. But they wouldn’t do that would they.
 
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Ingleby_Flash said:
It’s coming to something when we lock down against something that might happen in the future and when it does it might be worse than something that happened in the past. Especially when normal virus development is a weakening pattern, such as Spanish flu.

We can’t live a totally risk free existence.
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over a long enough timeline it is usually weakening, but that doesn't mean that all intermediate stages are weaker, usually in fact, they're are more lethal variants in between and that's the concern.
 
BoroMart said:
over a long enough timeline it is usually weakening, but that doesn't mean that all intermediate stages are weaker, usually in fact, they're are more lethal variants in between and that's the concern.
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It might happen as you say, but equally it might not. Given our abilities to quickly tweak and roll out updated vaccines, knowledge gained in dealing with illnesses that arise then I think the balance should be in favour of moving on towards treating the NHS backlog of seriously ill patients, the economy and the damaged mental health of the nation. Not hiding from the booger man.
 
Thoroughly depressing news this - I'm very much in the "mitigating against what MIGHT happen" camp.

On variants themselves, the last "significant" one was the South African one I believe? I think that was highlighted back in November. Have we not identified any more in the interim period or have they just not been communicated out?

As a minimum, if the 17th May is delayed/missed the gvt need to be much more transparent in what (and where) these variants are.

Following the variant logic through to it's conclusion - it's my understanding that in future we may need to be annually vaccinated against new strains identified - would this also include an annual (evolving) ban on countries we can visit?
 
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