Originally Posted by
valefan16
If their rate of infection is the same or lower than the U.K. you’ve the same if not less of a risk there than if you go on a staycation to a U.K. resort as no checks as you enter a U.K. resort for example.
If sensible and do the correct things in terms of masks and social distancing where possible then you negate the risks as much as possible.
As you spend most of a foreign holiday outdoors in hot weather your chances of avoiding it are pretty good.
Meat factories seem to be a key problem here and abroad though, partly because they are indoors and also kept and cold temps.
For starters the great British holidaymaker will have no control over social distancing on the aircraft. They will have no control if the aircraft is parked on a remote stand and only 2 buses turn up to transport 200 passengers to the terminal. They will have no control of how many flights share their baggage belts. All the time they will be mixing with a variety of different people at close quarters.
Once at the holiday resort they will be in holiday mode where the mindset will be that they have escaped the virus. Lifts will be shared and the people of many nations will freely mix in the evenings in bars and restaurants. Then it is back to home with a queue at check-in where due to terminal constraints social distancing is not possible, back on the bus to the aircraft, back sitting in a metal tube for 2 hours, back to the baggage belt.
What could possibly go wrong. The question is what is more risky, the holiday or the previous or following week?