Tbf if france and mainland europe had this new strain I would hope we would be closing our entry ports to the place.
The point is to stop the spread, not facilitate it.
And a super speading virus is completely different than a war against a massive set of nazi cunts and aiding europe while occupied by said nazis
I doubt it is political or out of spite, all these countries have sufffered many deaths from normal covid, a sensible government would take all precautions agains this mutated strain of it or they would be failing in it's job.