Safety measures are necessary in almost any human activity, be it to avoid slipping and falling or to avoid getting infected - but staying put and doing nothing for what can potentially be a couple of years because of a virus with a true mortality rate of less than 1% is not an option. A "new normal" full of isolation, policing, ever-changing restrictions, ill mental health, poverty and despair will ultimately cause far more damage. Lockdowns kill people. Depression and anxiety kill people. Stress over what's going to happen tomorrow and how to make ends meet kills people. Poverty and growing inequality will result in millions of deaths and many people's life expectancy significantly reduced. But few talk of that.
The latest development of the situation is downright appalling. Putting Greece and Zante on the quarantine lists of Wales and Scotland will create another logistical nightmare - but will not do anything useful. What can possibly stop people from landing at Newcastle, Leeds or Manchester and then getting the train to Edinburgh, thus avoiding quarantine? Nothing, I think. But it's going to create even more inconvenience in a world where all sorts of inconvenience have been plentiful in the past 6 months.