The novel corona virus became a pandemic primarily because of aviation, our industry, nothing else could provide it the ability to spread at highspeed, high volume and to every corner of the planet.
The world will be doubly cautious in providing it such carriage again. An epidemic anywhere is now an epidemic everywhere.
What then would allow countries to reopen their borders and airports, and resume the airline industry:
- Vaccine. A vaccine would supposedly be the end game for Covid-19 and the Gold standard.
- Test. Accurate, reliable, mobile, instant test. Results within 10 minutes, suitable for use prior to boarding.
- Immunity. Medical consensus that individuals are immune after having covid-19. Individual health certificates to verify each passenger’s immunity status.
- New Anti-viral medication that significantly reduces the severity of covid-19 risk and symptoms to that below currently accepted thresholds for communicable diseases. [ Regular Flu etc.].
- Mandatory quarantine of 14 days at authorized centers for all incoming passengers.
- Concluding that world isolation will become economically unsustainable, the effects of the cure becoming significantly worse than the effects of the Virus, forcing a shift to the Swedish approach; Protect and isolate the most vulnerable in society , allow free movement for all others while continuing social distancing, gloves, mask, washing of hands etc. [ a consensus between countries of travel]
- If Covid-19 is truly considered a WAR of man versus virus, at some point, as in all previous World Wars, death becomes an acceptable collateral damage. It is what it is, and its ugly! [ Plan Z]