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Mexboroseasider

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To be introduced on 8 June apparently.

I’m not sure whether the reason for the delay has been explained? If it was, I missed it.

I do wonder whether the reason is to discourage overseas holiday this year? If you have to quarantine for two weeks when you get back then, unless you can work from home, it’s pretty impossible to take a break overseas.
 
Before you can allow freedom of movement you need to know that those countries you are doing it with are all singing and abiding by the same hymn sheet.

Now only if we had an organisation which embraced lots of countries. Oh, hang on, they do! Just not us.
 
I’ve made a conscious decision to give foreign travel a miss this year. All the uncertainties seem to outweigh the benefits and peace of mind of making my own decision to sack it off and have 2 or 3 city or cottage staycations instead 👍
Saves all the unknowns and worries about cancellations and refunds and all that malarkey.
 
If you’ve been furloughed until the end of July you could go away for two weeks at the beginning of July and then be in quarantine for two weeks before returning to work.
Not for me though
 
Lala said:
I’ve made a conscious decision to give foreign travel a miss this year. All the uncertainties seem to outweigh the benefits and peace of mind of making my own decision to sack it off and have 2 or 3 city or cottage staycations instead 👍
Saves all the unknowns and worries about cancellations and refunds and all that malarkey.
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Seems sensible.

I was supposed to be going on a long weekend in Krakow is early July but that was knocked on the head some time ago.
 
Old_Laytonian said:
If you’ve been furloughed until the end of July you could go away for two weeks at the beginning of July and then be in quarantine for two weeks before returning to work.
Not for me though
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You could indeed. Not an option for key workers though and seems a tad unfair on that basis alone 🤔
 
Perhaps they’ve introduced this 14 day quarantine period to put us off having our holidays abroad and holidaying here to pump money into our economy. We allowed some 20 million plus people to arrive in this country since the virus outbreak, we should have shut the borders down then.
 
I would imagine the percentage of people prepared to go abroad will be very low.
 
TangerineBayern said:
Perhaps they’ve introduced this 14 day quarantine period to put us off having our holidays abroad and holidaying here to pump money into our economy. We allowed some 20 million plus people to arrive in this country since the virus outbreak, we should have shut the borders down then.
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That would be a very logical conclusion.
 
I can't say I'm arsed about going abroad at the best of time, so I can see this being the end of my occasional foreign holidays for the forseeable....
 
I was planning a week in Sardinia towards the end of June.
The island will be open for business at that time, they are keen to get back to normal as their economy depends on tourism.
On arrival in Sardinia all passengers are given a COVID test which uses saliva. The result is known within 20 minutes. If you are free of the virus you are free to leave the airport and enjoy your visit. If you are COVID positive, I am unsure what happens but I think that you would probably be quarantined somewhere on the island with other people with the virus.
However problems start when you arrive back in the UK as you have to take a two week self-imposed quarantine break.
I am unsure why we can't do something like the Sards are doing and load the cost onto airline tickets. It is far more sensible than a haphazard self imposed quarantine, which if the lockdown is any guide, many will simply ignore. The answer to controlling this virus is to have information (we have known this from the start), but we have not got a systematic testing regime in place until recently.
Anyway I probably won't go which is a shame. The incidence of COVID in the UK is probably lower now than it has been while we have been allowing free travel. It justy looks like an after thought to introduce this now.
 
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Bruges' mum is in a residential home (in Bruges, funnily enough). Anyway, they are soon to allow people to visit. If this happens and the French let us drive through, I take it we will not be allowed to go over and see her just for a day without having to go into quarantine on return to the UK.
 
Hertsseasider said:
Bruges' mum is in a residential home (in Bruges, funnily enough). Anyway, they are soon to allow people to visit. If this happens and the French let us drive through, I take it we will not be allowed to go over and see her just for a day without having to go into quarantine on return to the UK.
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Correct, so you can go there for 1 day and spend 14 days on your return in quarantine!
 
Hertsseasider said:
Bruges' mum is in a residential home (in Bruges, funnily enough). Anyway, they are soon to allow people to visit. If this happens and the French let us drive through, I take it we will not be allowed to go over and see her just for a day without having to go into quarantine on return to the UK.
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Then again you could just stay in Bruges for 14 days. Especially if it’s open now (it was closing when I was there!). Then the 14 days quarantine when you get home might not seem too bad.
 
Mexboroseasider said:
I think it was either EasyJet or Ryan Air who assured us the air on planes was purer than the air on the ground.
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Not sure if it was easyjet I last flew with, but ended up with a stinking cold a couple of days after arriving on holiday and put it down to the shitty air on the plane.

Like you say though Mex, it's hassle at the best of times, so why bother...

The UK is bloody lovely in any case 👍
 
TangerineBayern said:
Perhaps they’ve introduced this 14 day quarantine period to put us off having our holidays abroad and holidaying here to pump money into our economy. We allowed some 20 million plus people to arrive in this country since the virus outbreak, we should have shut the borders down then.
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20 million seems extremely high. That is pretty much one in three of our total population. Also how many of that 20 million are simply UK citizens returning from abroad?
Don't get me wrong though, I agree that in some form our border controls should have been in force much earlier
 
20togo said:
20 million seems extremely high. That is pretty much one in three of our total population. Also how many of that 20 million are simply UK citizens returning from abroad?
Don't get me wrong though, I agree that in some form our border controls should have been in force much earlier
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It may well be the Brits returning home who have come back here and infected us!! Selfish barstewards!!!

And if you think that’s a bit outlandish watch the news. And people in Scarborough, the Lakes and indeed the Gold Coast saying “Oi!!!!! What you doing on our moors/fells/promenade? Take your filthy covid19 back from whence it came“.

Brit on Brit it seems.
 
20togo said:
20 million seems extremely high. That is pretty much one in three of our total population. Also how many of that 20 million are simply UK citizens returning from abroad?
Don't get me wrong though, I agree that in some form our border controls should have been in force much earlier
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That’s the figure that’s been quoted in a number of circles but obviously not just UK citizens, even if it was 50/50 being optimistic a lot have entered from a number of high risk countries.
 
TangerineBayern said:
That’s the figure that’s been quoted in a number of circles but obviously not just UK citizens, even if it was 50/50 being optimistic a lot have entered from a number of high risk countries.
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Sorry Bayern wasn't disputing the 20 million. Just trying to emphasise the point that a great many of those would have been UK citizens and they have a right to return.
 
20togo said:
Sorry Bayern wasn't disputing the 20 million. Just trying to emphasise the point that a great many of those would have been UK citizens and they have a right to return.
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They have a right to return but should they not have been quarantined or at least tested? Seems odd to do this starting 8th June. I dont trust the Governments motives on this.
 
20togo said:
Sorry Bayern wasn't disputing the 20 million. Just trying to emphasise the point that a great many of those would have been UK citizens and they have a right to return.
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Not if they bring their filthy 🦠 with them!!

As a landlady in the lakes didn’t say to me recently.
 
GJJW said:
They have a right to return but should they not have been quarantined or at least tested? Seems odd to do this starting 8th June. I dont trust the Governments motives on this.
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Certainly as a minimum should have been tested.
 
The quarantine is one thing........ But still the official advice is nobody should travel unless essential. So as long as that stays in place it doesn't matter about the quarantine unless you obviously need to essentially travel abroad.
I do hope the government keep the nobody should travel advice up until the end of the year. Then anyone having booked a trip abroad this year can without a fight get their money back regardless of what the airlines say. And no I'm not affected by it as I have no trips booked this year. But do feel sorry for people that have paid lots of money for holidays in August, September. Should advice be it's OK to travel and airlines are flying irrespective of any quarantine rules or restrictions in hotels, bars and restaurants they would not be obliged to refund any monies.
 
Mexboroseasider said:
It may well be the Brits returning home who have come back here and infected us!! Selfish barstewards!!!

And if you think that’s a bit outlandish watch the news. And people in Scarborough, the Lakes and indeed the Gold Coast saying “Oi!!!!! What you doing on our moors/fells/promenade? Take your filthy covid19 back from whence it came“.

Brit on Brit it seems.
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My personal view on Wednesdays shenanigans was that nobody was doing anything wrong. And infact after 8 weeks of lockdown and the governments announcement that people could go wherever they wanted and stay out as long as they wanted, it on the hottest day of the year was always going to happen to places like Blackpool.
Don't really have a big problem with people coming here, but my frustration is the way they left the place looking with the rubbish and shit. And let's be honest I bet there was a lot of locals that went on the beach and prom to party, drink and make merry in the sun. Just hope the weather is bad this BH weekend.
 
Lala said:
I’ve made a conscious decision to give foreign travel a miss this year. All the uncertainties seem to outweigh the benefits and peace of mind of making my own decision to sack it off and have 2 or 3 city or cottage staycations instead 👍
Saves all the unknowns and worries about cancellations and refunds and all that malarkey.
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Me too.👍
 
Like most things they’ve done, this is another nonsensical decision.
This should have happened at the first notification from the WHO, not getting on for half a year too late.
To wait until June - 40,000 plus deaths later - is indefensible, and grossly negligent.
 
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