Covid rules ignored

[EFLImpudence]

https://www.portugalresident.com/po...s-after-brexit-no-matter-what-eu-rules-imply/

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

https://www.portugalresident.com/po...s-after-brexit-no-matter-what-eu-rules-imply/

UK travellers could be barred from entering the EU from 1 January as travel rules associated with being part of the EU expire and pandemic restrictions block entry.

Unrestricted travel to countries within the bloc will no longer automatically apply to UK residents from then.

A spokesman for ABTA, the travel industry trade body, said: "The EU has sought to adopt a common approach to travel restrictions, but this is only a recommendation and individual countries are able to implement their own measures, including options like travel corridors and testing."
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55256248
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Lucky the individual states can make their own rules, eh?

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

By encouraging the state to fight every 'ism' they have now unleashed a totalitarian monster that is now coming back to bite them.

How is encouraging the state to eradicate prejudice (in all its forms) remotely connected to, never mind causing, the 'unleashing of a totalitarian monster'?
Do you think Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc, were 'unleashed' because students and young people were fighting for equality for all?
Your thought processes are so convoluted to be corrupted.
Or maybe you read this on that unregulated, unmoderated web site, and chose to copy and paste it because, to you, it sounded intelligent.

 

[Trazor]

Lucky the individual states can make their own rules, eh?

Did you ever think the travel industry, in those EU states would ever ban such a lucrative trade.

I would like to see business leaders on both sides of the Channel, start forcing these point scoring political pygmies to get proactive, instead of destructive.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Did you ever think the travel industry, in those EU states would ever ban such a lucrative trade.

I hadn't given it any thought. It doesn't apply to me, so why would I? Just responding to Pete's comment, and hadn't noticed Sir Galahad and EFLImpudence had already corrected him.

 

[securespark]

The police should be going after proper crimes.

Unfortunately, it appears they go after the crimes that are easiest to deal with, be cleared up quickly and preferably brings in the readies.

 

[securespark]

The other thing is the exemption rules are slacker than a lady of the night's knicker elastic and that doesn't help.

Anyone can not wear a mask and nobody can do anything about it.

 

[motorbiking]

That's BS and you know it. Kids transmit the virus the same as everyone else. You are just saying that because you have kids.

We estimate that susceptibility to infection in individuals under 20 years of age is approximately half that of adults aged over 20 years, and that clinical symptoms manifest in 21% (95% credible interval: 12–31%) of infections in 10- to 19-year-olds, rising to 69% (57–82%) of infections in people aged over 70 years. Accordingly, we find that interventions aimed at children might have a relatively small impact on reducing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, particularly if the transmissibility of subclinical infections is low. Our age-specific clinical fraction and susceptibility estimates have implications for the expected global burden of COVID-19, as a result of demographic differences across settings.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0962-9

 

[SirGalahad]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0962-9

Then why this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55265098

Mass testing will be rolled out to secondary school children in the worst-affected areas of London, Kent and Essex, Matt Hancock has said.

"By far" the fastest rise in infection rates in those areas was among 11-18-year-olds, the health secretary said.

He said all children in this age group should get tested, irrespective of whether they had symptoms.

 

[Brigadier]

The other thing is the exemption rules are slacker than a lady of the night's knicker elastic and that doesn't help.

Anyone can not wear a mask and nobody can do anything about it.

And why not? Only the utterly dim, slack-jawed mouth-breathers need insist on cast-iron edicts like that.

Example from yesterday.......

...SWMBO walking to school, pushing pushchair (she's a childminder), with other like female. Outside, and at social distance.

Woman walking dog starts remonstrating with missus and other - "You should be ashamed of yourselves! You should be wearing a mask!"

"Well, you're not", replied the missus.

"I don't have to; I live alone!", fired back the dog-walker.

WTF is going on in her brain cell, to think what she shouted made any sense, let alone difference?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Then why this?

Who knows?

Another stab in the dark?

 

[Bodd]

UK travellers could be barred from entering the EU from 1 January as travel rules associated with being part of the EU expire and pandemic restrictions block entry.

Unrestricted travel to countries within the bloc will no longer automatically apply to UK residents from then.

A spokesman for ABTA, the travel industry trade body, said: "The EU has sought to adopt a common approach to travel restrictions, but this is only a recommendation and individual countries are able to implement their own measures, including options like travel corridors and testing."
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55256248
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Lucky the individual states can make their own rules, eh?

My brother is currently traveling around Spain in his camper van. from Jan 1st he has 90 days then has to come home for 90 days..... He's not happy about that

I told him that he shouldn't have voted Brexit.. o we laughed.

I told him to get to Gibraltar before the turn of the year.

 

[Brigadier]

Who knows?

Another stab in the dark?

To be seen to be doing something.

 

[Bodd]

Who knows?

Another stab in the dark?

While traveling Indonesia I had a Swedish girlfriend with hairy armpits. That stab in the dark had a 1 in 3 success rate.

 

[ellal]

Who knows?

Another stab in the dark?

I believe that should be a 'shot in the dark'