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With respect, that's not a timescale. It comes across as more of a convenient way of avoiding having to address the issue but sold to the public as a threshold for considering easing things. Based on current rates here, it's going to be many months before it gets to that figure unless something else crops up before then that would make them feel comfortable with easing the border. Testing being one of them. Like I said the other day, I think we can forget Christmas travel already despite Mr Quayle's words the other way about splitting Phase 3 to allow immediate family to travel.
Also note how they use 1 in 5,000 people when infection rates in the UK and other countries are being measured per 100k people.
As JSCL says, on the point of the borders the Manx government need to avoid basing their policy on how things are going in the UK. Even though the majority of movements on/off the island are to/from "across", there's a wider world beyond the UK itself. Also the UK could be doing things such as testing a lot better. The good people of the Isle of Man have the independence to do their own thing and literally show us and the world how it should be done.
It sounds like you have just made the case for direct flights to Europe. Specifically where the rate is around 20 per 100,000
It sounds like the Manx Border Force will have a role to play:
https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-...-seven-months/