Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:01pm
You can indeed travel to all parts of England, that’s my whole point! You can travel to Manchester via Bolton for example , mixing on rail platforms without a mask in sight. You don’t need to quarantine in Blackpool. Manchester or Bolton. You don’t need tests to give you permission to travel. You don’t need to spend upwards of £800 (based on family of 4) to meet the requirements to travel. You don’t have your temperature taken and when you return home having mixed with (who knows , carrying who knows what) you can mix again with your neighbours , family , friends and colleagues without a care in the world. In fact you’re actively encouraged by the government to behave in this way. Staycations are applauded - crowding our small beaches and tourists spots even more thus increasing potential super/spreaders. Lessons not learned from 16 months ago!
Whereas I , am tested before I travel to Spain, if I fly everyone else on that plane has been tested and jumped through hoops to be on the flight Risks are negligible . I’m temperature tested on landing, I complete location forms, I take tests to return, quarantine for 10 days having had no air contact with strangers (everyone wears a mask in public in Spain). take further two tests and live under virtual house arrest with government agents checking I remain so.
How, just how can this government strategy that allowed the delta covid horse to bolt before trying to lockdown to late and seem tough , just how is this intelligent and coherent?
It makes no sense in terms of public safety otherwise as they did in Spain they would have had internal borders and local / regional closures. it is just a cynical method of this government trying to recoup revenue from the holiday taxpayer.
It is a prison - you’re locked in , physically and financially, emotionally with a whimsical traffic light system that is meaningless nonsense. Green or red would have been sufficient. Go or stay put.
Personally I feel safer in the streets of Benissa or Benidorm than in Blackpool or Bolton. If I didn’t have to come back to UK I wouldn’t but another word beginning with B put pay to that, I’ve now got less freedom than I did 6 months ago thanks to that.
This government has spent millions but nothing compared to the US or what the EU are funding to individual member states to come through this crisis.