Covid and travel discussion

[Two Gun Bob]

They get married very young up in the hills don't they!

Typo .. 2020 ; )

 

[Xhavenjoe]

They get married very young up in the hills don't they!

Rachel Riley calculates marriage was consummated at 1 year of age.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Typo .. 2020 ; )

I thought it was genuine, I know there are strange ways in those hills :-)

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Rachel Riley calculates marriage was consummated at 1 year of age.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Rachel Riley calculates marriage was consummated at 1 year of age.

Time Traveler : /

 

[cleavers]

Me and misses are 60 this year and 40 years married booked Mauritius for middle of July will be gutted if we can't go.

Fabulous Island, we went 2 springs ago, and had a great time.

Sadly I think they are currently on our "red list" so I'd be very surprised if you can go, but try to go if you get the chance in future, it's well worth it.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Yes spend your hard earned cash on a trip to Blackpool,lovely hotel with mushrooms growing in the communal bog, a lively little bed and breakfast with a knocking shop next door and DWP scallies on the other side, pissed stained matress and fungai in the shower at no extra cost

When you put it like that, who could resist an offer like that ? :)

 

[RobMCFC]

My initial feeling on all this was that they’d tentatively open travel to European destination with low case rates first. However, with the rate they are vaccinating in the US - they aim to have all adults vaccinated with first dose by end of May - plus they are due to announce how their border policy with operate in mid-May, it makes me wonder whether trans-Atlantic will be first to open up. Especially after the recent bun fights with our Euro friends.

 

[BimboBob]

Why would we need to stop all travel this year if the majority of adults have had a vaccine ? 50% of all adults have had the first jab. Utter nonsense. I work hard and want my holiday, didn’t go last year. Utterly strange how some are so against it. Also some absolutely terrible classist comments on here regarding those who go on holiday to Spain etc. Me and my partner are both working professionals under 30 with a child, prices are insane in the school holidays and the amount it costs to get there for even a week is insane.

So you get the jab. A jab thats not 100 percent effective. You then go to another country. How many have had the jab? Some? Many? Most?

You can still pick it up. Carry it. Infect people. Die.

But hey...if you want the above knock yourself out.

 

[splinter]

Qantas boss: governments to insist on vaccines for flying
The boss of Australian airline Qantas has told the bbc that governments are going to insist on vaccines for international travellers. Qantas expects its international travel to restart end of October.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

So you get the jab. A jab thats not 100 percent effective. You then go to another country. How many have had the jab? Some? Many? Most?

You can still pick it up. Carry it. Infect people. Die.

But hey...if you want the above knock yourself out.

isn’t it all about risk? Surely if you have been jabbed you have mitigated the risk and that’s all you can do .

I enjoy cycling but I could get smashed off my bike and die but it’s a risk I accept.

I travel to watch city I could get glassed and killed

christ I could drive my car and have a crash and die.

you sound like you want to live a long life with zero risks at all so stay in your room don’t go out and I am sure you will exist for a long time so knock yourself out,

some of us want to get back to actually living and enjoying life with all the risks and rewards involved in that.

visiting new places is a big part of that

 

[bluealf]

Yes spend your hard earned cash on a trip to Blackpool,lovely hotel with mushrooms growing in the communal bog, a lively little bed and breakfast with a knocking shop next door and DWP scallies on the other side, pissed stained matress and fungai in the shower at no extra cost

Or find a really nice place in the UK to go and visit, plenty of them out there :)

The indecent rush to get back abroad is ridiculous, I enjoy my visit abroad as much as anybody but we have got to get these numbers down and then start to live with the few flare-ups that will still occur, with case numbers still at 5k a day it is too high to open up anything, 5k to 10k to 50k is a couple of weeks of madness.

Plenty of thick dirty bastards still won't clean their hands before entering supermarkets, you see them all the time, do people really think these people will follow guidelines the minute they have got pissed up a bit?

On another note, this is the first year since I stopped smoking that I haven't had a horrible cold over winter, think I will be mask and glove-wearing and anti bac gelling in wintertime for the foreseeable future lol

 

[Big-P]

So you get the jab. A jab thats not 100 percent effective. You then go to another country. How many have had the jab? Some? Many? Most?

You can still pick it up. Carry it. Infect people. Die.

But hey...if you want the above knock yourself out.

Well COVID is never going to go away. If the jab is 90% effective that’s decent odds. So for you, this is it now, forever? Work hard for my holiday, didn’t go last year, will hopefully be going this year, my little girl is young once, and she is being f denied happy memories that lots of other children who happened to be born 30-40 years earlier than her got.

 

[mr t]

Holidays abroad were allowed last year and now scientists reckon a lot of folk who went on those holidays became infected with COVID-19 abroad and spread the virus in the UK when they returned.

And it’s now apparent that countries like Greece who said their infection levels were low weren’t exactly telling the truth because their economy struggles to survive without their holiday industry.

I can’t see this issue disappearing any time soon even with the vaccine as we are heavily reliant on how many folk other countries vaccinate on top of our own and we now know that some countries will tell us what we want to hear in order to suit their own ends.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I’ve not been abroad for ages anyway. So much so my passport ran out three years ago and I haven’t even updated it yet!

Makes no odds to me.

I want to keep on exploring this great island we live on. Some beautiful places here. And either when the snow comes or when the sun shines, there’s no better place!

 

[Big-P]

Holidays abroad were allowed last year and now scientists reckon a lot of folk who went on those holidays became infected with COVID-19 abroad and spread the virus in the UK when they returned.

And it’s now apparent that countries like Greece who said their infection levels were low weren’t exactly telling the truth because their economy struggles to survive without their holiday industry.

I can’t see this issue disappearing any time soon even with the vaccine as we are heavily reliant on how many folk other countries vaccinate on top of our own and we now know that some countries will tell us what we want to hear in order to suit their own ends.

So what’s the point in vaccinating then? Do they not work?

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

So what’s the point in vaccinating then? Do they not work?

exactly , there is a huge difference between last year and this year , the vaccine both here and abroad.

what is the point of vaccinating the population if our lives are going to continue under the Covid lockdown restrictions forever, Covid isn’t going to disappear ? It makes no sense .

june 21 boris said all covid restrictions will go and it will be irreversible . bold statement but it’s what he said.

I haven’t been away for ages . Booked to go away towards end of the year. If I can’t go because restrictions are imposed by sage /govt fair enough I won’t go and get my money back.

however I know I definitely won’t have been going if I didn’t book. Nice to have something in the diary to look forward to and hopefully in the interim 6 months or so the vaccination programme will increase at pace domestically and internationally.

over summer it will be the Lake District as usual . Where there is a small risk I could catch Covid ?!? On second thoughts....

 

[Two Gun Bob]

So you get the jab. A jab that's not 100 percent effective. You then go to another country a pub a restaurant or football. How many have had the jab? Some? Many? Most?

You can still pick it up. Carry it. Infect people. Die.

But hey...if you want the above a pint a meal or entertaining knock yourself out.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

v good.

 

[andyhinch]

I’ve not been abroad for ages anyway. So much so my passport ran out three years ago and I haven’t even updated it yet!

Makes no odds to me.

I want to keep on exploring this great island we live on. Some beautiful places here. And either when the snow comes or when the sun shines, there’s no better place!

Had a week in Northumberland last summer, fantastic holiday.