Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[COYBL25]

Booking a foreign holiday this year is pure FOLLY.

For example Portugal came off the red list but we still aren't allowed to travel there.

If you’re eager to at least go somewhere, then put your time money and efforts into booking a “staycation”* before the costs get too much to afford.

For me I’m not desperate to get away and a holiday at home in my opinion is a waste of money, as it’s just staying in your own country and freezing your bollockx off and eating the same food you would if you stayed at home. I personally can wait it out and save my money up for Iceland, in a five star hotel by the time we are allowed there as a “Third country”.

* This actually means staying at home and using that home as a base while visiting local attractions like a tourist.

What about the thousands who’ve had holidays abroad carried over from last year ?

 

[grandjoeblue]

Booking a foreign holiday this year is pure FOLLY.

For example Portugal came off the red list but we still aren't allowed to travel there.

If you’re eager to at least go somewhere, then put your time money and efforts into booking a “staycation”* before the costs get too much to afford.

For me I’m not desperate to get away and a holiday at home in my opinion is a waste of money, as it’s just staying in your own country and freezing your bollockx off and eating the same food you would if you stayed at home. I personally can wait it out and save my money up for Iceland, in a five star hotel by the time we are allowed there as a “Third country”.

* This actually means staying at home and using that home as a base while visiting local attractions like a tourist.

That 'staycation' sounds absolutely awful.

 

[coollino]

That 'staycation' sounds absolutely awful.

The name 'staycation' is terrible too. It's like the middle class have realised it's possible to have a holiday in the UK but feel too proud to do so, so they have given it its own name.

 

[grandjoeblue]

The name 'staycation' is terrible too. It's like the middle class have realised it's possible to have a holiday in the UK but feel too proud to do so, so they have given it its own name.

Yes agree. Can't stand it.

I also hate those lists of 'fun things to do during lockdown' which essentially involve cooking or watching a film.

 

[coollino]

Yes agree. Can't stand it.

I also hate those lists of 'fun things to do during lockdown' which essentially involve cooking or watching a film.

Why not get a bottle of champagne and enjoy a takeaway from the Michelin star restaurant with all of the family!

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I have been shocked by how badly this has been handled in Europe. At the rate they are vaccinating with the U.K. variant becoming dominant they are going to get smashed by the 3rd wave which did not have to happen. I would be fuming if I was in Italy right now. Starting to look like the U.K. and the US will be Back to BAU by early summer

Sorry this is plain wrong it's individual countries with their own regulatory powers, pausing AZ vaccine.
The European Medicine agency is pro AZ vaccine. It's time we moved on and stopped blaming everything on the EU, Brexit won now please get over it.

 

[tsubaki]

Sorry this is plain wrong it's individual countries with their own regulatory powers, pausing AZ vaccine.
The European Medicine agency is pro AZ vaccine. It's time we moved on and stopped blaming everything on the EU, Brexit won now please get over it.

good luck with that, they’ll have nothing to get outraged over

 

[Moomin]

What about the thousands who’ve had holidays abroad carried over from last year ?

Thats what we have done, meant to be changing flights at Doha but seen that Qatar is now on the red list. Hopefully by the end of July it won't be and the need for 10 days to quarantine has finished.

 

[Chris O'Connor]

Covid is a very infectious and serious virus with devastating effects especially on the vulnerable groups. Pausing or delaying vaccination is not without very serious consequences for very vulnerable people. While it's crucial vaccines are safe it's also crucial there's some common sense on the comparative risks between the vulnerable being infected and large death rates versus any slight precautionary concerns with a vaccination.

The reaction across a swathe of countries to statistically insignificant levels of blood clots is quite baffling. When one country stops the AZ vaccine rollout as a precautionary measure others have followed almost without thought. A very low level of blood clots will occur for a multitude of reasons with or without the vaccine, there is no real spike and no proven connection. The levels compared to number of vaccinations are tiny and not entirely unexpected, the reaction totally disproportionate. It's almost being ultra, ultra careful without balancing any of the risks of stopping. The halting of any vaccine has consequences for people's attitude long term, no matter if it's all clear, the damage is done and irrevocable. The negativity that will spread can't be collected back and bottled up, its out there forever.

The European vaccination program generally has been following the slow, stop, extremely slow and stop pathway anyway, seemingly more intent on playing politics, taking legal action against vaccine suppliers and spreading negativity and fear amongst its people. While this has taken place on an individual country by country basis it's just another step being taken on a well trodden Europe wide pathway.

 

[SussexToffee]

Yes agree. Can't stand it.

I also hate those lists of 'fun things to do during lockdown' which essentially involve cooking or watching a film.

Hate that also, as soon as Boris put a chain and padlock on the country, everyone on Facebook was posting “Lockdown streaming tips”, like albums on Spotify and films on Netflix.

Making banana bread is just so random. Lockdown isn’t “fun” and the things that are supposed to be “fun” are getting tedious now. Never found the idea of watching a person dancing around in front of their webcam “fun” at all. It’s supposed to be “lifting the sprits and morale”, more like making me drive myself insane.

 

[SussexToffee]

The name 'staycation' is terrible too. It's like the middle class have realised it's possible to have a holiday in the UK but feel too proud to do so, so they have given it its own name.

God yeah, and they go on and on about it as if it’s something great and everyone must take one, no questions asked.

Boris going on and on about the best times of his life as a boy were “staycations”, TV shows like “The Great Staycation” and “Swapping Spain for Cornwall”, it’s just infuriating.

 

[BlueToff]

Booking a foreign holiday this year is pure FOLLY.

For example Portugal came off the red list but we still aren't allowed to travel there.

If you’re eager to at least go somewhere, then put your time money and efforts into booking a “staycation”* before the costs get too much to afford.

For me I’m not desperate to get away and a holiday at home in my opinion is a waste of money, as it’s just staying in your own country and freezing your bollockx off and eating the same food you would if you stayed at home. I personally can wait it out and save my money up for Iceland, in a five star hotel by the time we are allowed there as a “Third country”.

* This actually means staying at home and using that home as a base while visiting local attractions like a tourist.

Gonna try get up to scotland on the bike for a few days in the summer.

Unfortunately, that may mean sleeping in a van, which I'm not cut out for, but is what it is. Need to do something

 

[SussexToffee]

What about the thousands who’ve had holidays abroad carried over from last year ?

That’s true, hopefully by then travel can resume for those people.

 

[davek]

God yeah, and they go on and on about it as if it’s something great and everyone must take one, no questions asked.

Boris going on and on about the best times of his life as a boy were “staycations”, TV shows like “The Great Staycation” and “Swapping Spain for Cornwall”, it’s just infuriating.

Well you better get used to it, because no one's flying abroad for the foreseeable future.

 

[SussexToffee]

That 'staycation' sounds absolutely awful.

My parents had one like that in 2010. They went to Bideford for a fishing trip and all it did was rain and cold wind while spending most of their time in a cabin.