Originally Posted by
Sk1schoolsam
Some of us still need to travel internationally for work purposes (the world has not stopped and Asia is up and running) so accessing flight to go East via hubs is vital. It’s not all about local Euro holidays.
Very few people need to travel internationally for work purposes, very few indeed. All non essential business travel is now not being signed off.
Asia is not "up and running". That's palpably false. Large parts of China are domestically open but subject to immediate major lockdown of whole cities with no warning as cases arise. They are taking a very different approach to the UK but with no reliable vaccine yet, it's whackamole time. This is the first pandemic that we have tried to deal with by locking down on a global level (mainly). There's only two routes back to our old lives :
1. A vaccine which is what our govts are 100% relying on as they dare not contemplate a Plan B (see below)
2. Let it run through and shield the elderly as the fit build up herd immunity. Worth a read
https://gbdeclaration.org/
With no sign of 1. there's no way back to school exams, no proms, no university experience, no BAU cancer care, no return to mass international travel.
EVERYTHING is being gambled on this miracle vaccine. Australia has had a very tough winter, especially Victoria, the UK will see worse in terms of challenges by virtue of the Northern Winter being harsher with more people being forced indoors. And the money's running out.....
Originally Posted by
mike current
Yesterday in the top 3 UK airports for aircraft movements were Stansted and East Mids. 2 major cargo hubs. Exactly what happened back in April and May. We may be not in an official lockdown, but effectively we are!
This is exactly it. We have rain, snow and darkness to come, it's nonsense to think they'll be doing anything but tightening things up and introducing harsher lockdowns. Chief Mammy is already signaling we'ans will be enjoying a digital Christmas this year. With the current strategy, this will be repeating each year until a vaccine but public patience may well not survive a full winter of this. We shall see.