What Did They Expect?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53773914
This is exactly why I won't be travelling until this madness is over. Why are these eejits so desperate do visit another country? Now it's a field day for the travel companies who can charge what they like. This was always bound to happen.

[Spicerack]

Too much Shirley Valentine.

[lady-janine]

What an incredible lack of good taste so many people show.

[Jackdaw33]

Not sure to whom that was directed. ^^

[Bobbisox1]

spicey, I don't think any of us wanting to go abroad can be likened to Miss Valentine, not when there's a husband in tow :-)))

[Apc2604]

This little Englander has travelled far and wide over many years, had many exciting and enjoyable holidays, and worked overseas, but is content to stay in this country for the foreseeable future because she cannot envisage enjoying a holiday in the present world climate!

[diddlydo]

Jackdaw - I can only assume you're happy to toe the Boris line, are welcoming Brexit and read the Torygraph.

[Jackdaw33]

Your assumptions are correct, sir.

[Bobbisox1]

Apc, I am not hoping to go anywhere soon but we've already lost a lot of money from Ryanair so hopefully ours will be cancelled, fingers crossed

[Apc2604]

Diddly, do you get your kicks out of being unpleasant to others whodon't share your views.

[lady-janine]

I am sure that Jackdaw can stand up for himself but Diddles please grow up. How old are you? Educated to what level? Reading age?

[diddlydo]

Not at all but I'm entitled to disagree. And Jackdaw - I'm not a "sir".

[Jackdaw33]

I do beg your pardon, Madam. Mea culpa.

[Spicerack]

We know what you birds get up to on holidays, Bobbi, you silly little goose.

[Apc2604]

Bobbi, my post wasnt aimed at you. It was a reply to the little Englander comment from she seems to think she is above everyone else!

[Apc2604]

'She who'

[New Judge]

//NJ that was an example...I have no kids or grandkids//

OK woofy, what risk do you see in one hugging one’s grandchildren then?

//People should just write this year off for foreign travel//

Well in my case, tomus, that would involve also writing off a tidy sum of money in order to avoid going to a place which has fewer new cases and far fewer deaths per head than here. I paid for my trip long before this nonsense began and it is not refundable. The airline will refund my fare if they cancel my flight but there seems little chance of that happening. I have travel insurance but that will only reimburse me if I am actually prevented from travelling. But it isn’t the money particularly (if it was I would not have parted with it in the first place). I actually want to travel. I am not spending any of my time locked away from a disease that I have a very small chance on contracting especially when that disease – and the measures being taken to “control” it – are likely to be around indefinitely as far as I can see. Risk aversion has become a new industry in the UK and it’s not being studied properly.

//must be sun lovers, who like sitting on deck chairs or sand, roasting like sausages in the backing sun, and paying for over priced food and tat in markets...catching or spreading a virus is a....no biggie.
stuck on a metal tube with possibly infected passengers err worth it.//

I’m planning none of those activities, fender, and even if I was that’s not a reason to criticise what people want to do. I have probably stood as much chance of catching the virus on the buses, trains and tubes I have been using in the last four months as I have of doing so on an aircraft.

[Bobbisox1]

I know Apc , I know who it was aimed at :0)

[Bobbisox1]

Birds and geese Spicey :0))))

[Deskdiary]

Agree with Diddly and NJ - I don’t understand why people are getting so righteous about people exercising their right to travel.

Mrs DD spent 4 nights last week in Croatia with friends, where the risk of catching Covid is even less than here (and it’s bloody low here). In a couple of weeks I’m off to Majorca for 4 nights with friends, where the Covid level is less than where I live. The flights are all still going ahead.

Unlike Mrs DD I will, absurdly, be required to quarantine, which isn’t too much of a problem for me as I’m working from home, although whether I do....

[teacake44]

1 in 4000 :0)