Originally Posted by
Jet II
what is the point of that statement? - the US has a population of 328 million compared with Spains 46 million and 11 million for Belgium. More people live in Texas than Belgium.
The UK could consider quarantining arrivals from particular cities or regions of the USA, as some areas have been hit much harder than others, but as the USA is one country, and it is perfectly conceivable that someone from, say New York which has been the major hotspot for infections might fly into the UK from a low risk city. And anyway don't confuse deaths with infection rates. The UK is currently running at around 3,000 new infections reported each day, the USA at about 6 time that number, but their population is not 6 time larger than that of the UK.
Death rates tell you very little about what is happening now, it tells you the consequences of what happened previously, and what is more, as with the UK, when the reported death rates are compared with the different between actual deaths in the country versus the normal annual death rate I'm sure the US picture would look very much worse than it's daily reported figures. What is more, the dangerous policies on lifting of lockdowns in the USA, as compared, for example with how
most European countries are proceeding make the USA a country of origin where quarantine should have been imposed weeks ago, and certainly where the UK, and other countries need to be particularly wary today and going forward.
Which country does, or doesn't get favourable treatment matters not, it is the clear avenue out of the proposal for the (unworkable) blanket quarantine policy that the UK chucked into the equation a week or so ago ought to offer a brighter outlook for airlines for the high season - unless of course the UK screws up it's own exit from lockdown.