What's the subject of your PhD?I pretty much live to travel. Nothing beats zipping round a few European cities doing my photography, soaking up the history and the local beer each Summer.
I am not hopeful at the moment. I'm due to submit my PhD next month, and I've been motivating myself for the last year with thoughts of trips away. However, I'm pretty certain it won't be happening any time soon and I don't really think it's in the power of out government to make it happen. Even if they turn round and say we're happy for you to travel from May 17th onward, I doubt many destinations will be receiving tourists.
I'd usually cross a few international borders when doing this, but I think it would be crazy to plan anything like that in the current situation.
Basically this yes!What I dont quite understand is what the specific risk is that won't always be there?
Pretty much everyone who is vulnerable has received their first vaccine and in the next few weeks will receive their second. If the argument is made regarding variants and the risk of returning tourists bringing them home, doesn't that mean we can literally never go abroad ever again as we will always have variants of Covid 19?
Careful coming on here with that common sense attitude.I would permit travel to and from low risk areas with the use of vaccine passports.
No foreign holidays to high risk areas and no pesky foreigners from high risk areas.No foreign holidays and no pesky foreigners allowed on our Island, sounds like Farage just got his second wish
What's the subject of your PhD?
Very much agree!For me it's the balance between relative risk of the virus and the detrimental effects of continued lockdown.
Every single thing we do comes with some kind of a risk, but that risk is balanced by the positive aspects of taking that risk.
I just wonder if as those who are vulnerable are vaccinated (and studies show the vaccines do protect against serious illness occurring even on variants of the disease), whether the relatively very small risk is outweighed by the positive aspects of normal life continuing, and whether the continuing detrimental effects of lockdown-unemployent, poverty, isolation, depression, undiagnosed medical conditions etc are of greater harm than something which shouldn't cause serious illness if you've been vaccinated or are not in the vulnerable category.
I genuinely don't know, and have parents in their 80s, so would never want decisions made that would put them or others at risk, but I'm not sure if the balance suggested in the comments made yesterday by the government adviser is right?
People can and will "survive" on a UK only based holiday this year. It's not critical to life to sit in the sun on a foreign bit of land for a week or 2 as opposed to here. This notion that foreign holidays are essential is nonsense. I love travelling as much as anyone, but not going abroad this year will in no way harm me, instead it provides an opportunity to explore the UK moreVery much agree!
But they're intimating that people oughtta be able to survive on a UK based holiday only this yr!
The difference will be that in the future the virus wont be as rampant as it currently is, and likely will be for much of the year, in many popular foreign holiday destinationsBut that's the point by July everyone will be vaccinated, and yet still the government advisor yesterday said basically "no foreign holidays this summer " I don't quite understand what will be different in the future?
I can sort of understand that view if in 3 months you were to go somewhere that has low numbers of cases, but would you be happy to travel to somewhere that has several thousand per day? It's not about never travelling again, that's being a bit melodramatic, it's about tempering the 'need' to travel abroad this summerI'll be travelling as soon as we're allowed. The Government have stated time and time again this virus will be soon be endemic (forever in the community) and once numbers are down and the majority are vaccinated, that's likely as good as it is ever going to get. So unless you plan to never travel again, I don't think it makes much difference if you go abroad in 3 months or 3 years.