Holidays - A straw poll

I have a home nr Carcassonne... been here 3 weeks and there's only been 7 cases of covid nr us

No way would you get me on a package holiday or Sat on a beach

Mind you that was the same pre covid era

 

Anyone going abroad unless they are so rich that they can afford to stay indefinitely or if they come home are able to afford to isolate for two weeks needs their heads checked. If people want to go away it should be in the UK and even then I would say only under certain conditions such as being somewhere you can travel in your own private car and ideally only staying in single group residences rather than say a small B&B

You just know though people will keep flying off to Spain, ignoring all the guidelines for social distancing and then when just a single one of them gets it and gets on the plane infect everyone else. Then get home and not actually isolate for 14 days as required and the R rate which is already back over 1 in some places is just going to keep rising.

 

Thats all good and well.. if all imports and deliveries are stopped also

A huge amount of wagons drive over the boarders every day... are the drivers all covid free

 

Imports would be much easier to manage. The drivers can isolate themselves if they need to go abroad and they would be easier to track and test but you could also have it so Continental drivers would bring them to a designated drop off, most likely in Calais and then the British drivers would drive off the Ferry or Chunnel pick it up and turn right around. You could also actually get the airlines involved seeing as they won't be taking passengers. Turn them into freight airlines, the planes crew would fly out filled with any exports. When they land the crew are taken directly to a Hotel where they are isolated in the way F1 is doing with the teams. next morning picked up, the planes full with imports. They land at a UK airport, truckers are waiting to pick it up and take it to the UK destinations.

Obviously wouldn't totally cover all the trucker or airline revenues but better than having free travel for everyone and then having that cause another full lockdown

 

Was this one that was already pre-booked or were you one of the ones who decided to say 'Sod this I'm booking a holiday' as soon as restrictions were lifted?

If you booked after then sadly I would say its your own fault. You took a risk and now you either have to decide to throw away a £3k holiday and hope that either you can get a refund or insurance will cover some or all of it OR you have to accept that you will be unable to work for 2 weeks and maybe even lose your job for it. Its upto you. You can't have your cake and eat it through, you decided that a foreign holiday during a pandemic was the most important thing in life and you have to take the consequences for the good of everyone else

And if before why didn't you take the refund offered by travel firms when restrictions were first put in place? It has been pretty clear from day 1 of the lockdown that things weren't getting back to normal before 2021 because its going to either need a vaccine or herd immunity to allow things to go back anywhere close to normal. So again you took a risk by not getting a refund when you could and again you have to now make a choice of whats more important going abroad or not having to be in isolation for 14 days when you get back