wanderlust wrote:
I agree with most of your earlier post and perhaps unintentionally you make a good case for stopping all travel abroad however we were discussing the arbitrariness of applying quarantine to the whole of Spain regardless of the situation in the main holiday resorts or elsewhere in Europe or the world for that matter.
I suspect the worry is more to do with applying quarantine to the beach holiday resorts (which aren't showing significant cases for now) and used the excuse as mainland Spain which is (or at least one big part of it is). Even if the resorts are 'British only' you still can have people from Blackburn, Oldham, even Leicester I would imagine (are residents from there allowed to go on holiday as I don't think the partial lockdown they are under prevents it - although I may be wrong) partying with kids from all over the country where there are currently no significant infection problems.
wanderlust wrote:If as you say, they are having a second wave in Germany why didn't the government apply the same criteria to Germany?
I would guess because not millions are going to Germany in the first place, or to piss it up with loads of others on the beaches.
It would surprise me that by the time Octoberfest comes around that bans are in place to prevent travel because of the same reasoning.
wanderlust wrote:By applying a blanket ruling, doesn't that open the door for other countries applying the same for travel to the whole of the UK, purely based on the situation in Blackburn?
Yes it could but I doubt many would wish to as they all have their own airlines and travel industry to worry about and I don't think they would currently see any benefit in not travelling here as the tourist spots are mainly London and the cultural stuff down in the South East or Edinburgh/Scotland, neither of which constitutes a big risk AND isn't pissing it up with loads of others (which as I say I suspect the concern is all about for us in respect of the Spain travel ban.
wanderlust wrote:Risky game to play as tourism contributes £67 billion to UK GDP but moreover with the decline of industry the tourism sector was projected in 2019 to grow to £257 billion by 2025 i.e. 10% of GDP so we could really suffer is other Governments follow suit.
And I agree that a lot of idiots won't self-isolate - but the Government won't enforce it.
If covid is going to continue to flare up in hotspots does that mean that we can look forward to quarantine being recommended - and without enforcement it really isn't anything more than a recommendation - by Governments around the world on a regular basis?
Not sure what you are saying in your last paragraph?
The Government has said only essential travel to Spain, which means you can't get travel insurance to go there and the travel industry cheap flights are no longer flying there other than to return people already out there.
I think the idea is simply to stop the idiots going on cheapo holidays in the Sun, catching the virus, returning and not isolating and spreading it around more widely than just the more heavily Asian (there I've said it - not because I'm racist but because it is a fact as the daily positive cases show) populated towns and cities of the north and midland were it is currently present and being dealt with.