QF pulls the plug on international flights to March 2021
Speaking of BNEA320/TT738, he's posting over at the Executive Traveller website under the two accounts of "regular flyer" and "skier" arguing for the borders to open, including Victoria. He's getting a pasting over there regardless of whatever alias he posts on.
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To sort of bring this thread back toward its intended topic, it does seem that there is an expectation of little international flying til March 2021 into Australia.
Maybe because this co-incides with northern winter and flu season? If there is going to be a second wave across the northern hemisphere in their next winter it would be known about by March 21. Judging on the reappearance (or not) of the pandemic in the north will give Australia an indication of when to begin winding back restrictions here?
Maybe because this co-incides with northern winter and flu season? If there is going to be a second wave across the northern hemisphere in their next winter it would be known about by March 21. Judging on the reappearance (or not) of the pandemic in the north will give Australia an indication of when to begin winding back restrictions here?
Just heard Britain is looking at setting up a seperate COVID Rehabilitation Centers due to the number of ‘recovered’ people still suffering all sorts of problems. We don’t see these people in the statistics..........
On topic, The greater majority don't want to open the borders and even if they did, no-one over 50 will take the risk of becoming sick in a foreign country and face the possibility of being stuck there for months at their own expense. (uninsurable). The second quarter of 2021 is optimistic but a good starting point. Personally I think it will be much longer before confidence is restored and right now we haven't even started, the pandemic itself is only getting started globally. We in Australia are fortunate and naturally impatient simply because few of us have been touched by it yet. For me personally I don't even know anyone close to me that has been infected let alone died. So it's quite understandable our young people think the way they do.
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we're now about 4 months into the pandemic - in another 4 months people will be screaming to get in and out of Australia - traffic is already picking up elsewhere
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Your big problem mate is that you have no immunity within the population, in the U.K. large numbers have been exposed mostly without symptoms. Don’t be optimistic of avoiding an epidemic.
The borders are closed not to keep people in, but to keep people out. The pandemic is still gathering steam in India and Indonesia and unless you want ten million or more rich Asians, with or without the virus, joining us in lifeboat Australia the borders need to be kept closed.
Too many people have short attention spans. This thing is still a slowly growing long term catastrophe. We can’t see even “the end of the beginning “ yet. If no vaccine is available, we will need to restructure our travel arrangements to what they were more than a hundred years ago. Remember the quarantine stations at Point Nepean in Victoria? Was it North Head in Sydney? Little yellow health passports? You can forget mass international travel.
Too many people have short attention spans. This thing is still a slowly growing long term catastrophe. We can’t see even “the end of the beginning “ yet. If no vaccine is available, we will need to restructure our travel arrangements to what they were more than a hundred years ago. Remember the quarantine stations at Point Nepean in Victoria? Was it North Head in Sydney? Little yellow health passports? You can forget mass international travel.
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The annual flu is PREVENTABLE, COVID isn't.
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Did Boris tell you that? Herd immunity may never occur for COVID. The UK approach of let it rip is the reason you had 1000 dead per day for nearly a month. In fact, the Celtic nations that followed their own experts have done so much better than stupid little England
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I've had the flu shot once in my entire lifetime and I don't get the flu (as is the case with not having contracted Covid either). If you look at care home statistics, there is a large proportion of residents that die from the flu EVERY year and they routinely vaccinate for the flu. I'm afraid to say getting the flu is definitely not PREVENTABLE. Coronavirus has similarities to the influenza virus. A vaccine (if it does actually become available) is never going to be the Golden ticket out of this mire. Attitudes are going to have to evolve (just as the human immune system evolves) or we could find some nations locked down forever more. Elimination of Covid is a futile and costly road if thats the only view on your horizon.