Originally Posted by
chuboy
Without a vaccine it is inevitable that we will all catch COVID-19 one day as we have no immunity, that fact has not eluded our world's epidemiologists.
I do not excpect to catch it. But it may happen if we open travel to countries which completely failed like UK. Here in Lithuania we have only 0,05% population infected and it is on decline now. Poland has even less cases per population, about half of that. The goal should have been not to slow it but to completely erradicate and that was quite possible if acted on time.
And to put in the perspective what Poland has done to have that rate - when they closed boarders they even refused to let Lithuanian passenger cars cross from Germany to return, we had thousands stranded. Only buses were allowed to cross after a few days of negotiations and those drove with police escort. Cars were not accepted even with police escort offered as an option, they had to use ferry or stay.
The idea of having free travel so soon will be looked at quite sceptical here.