Spain And Quarantine

[Apc2604]

How likely is it that those returning will comply?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53540691?fbclid=IwAR3XTaX1ve5DwRB_-iw1QEPcKVHTWle1KoqOeDZ5hrCO6QOaKOfpRSMySbI

[diddlydo]

Mushroom @11.49 That link about Southwold was from 2 April - please try to keep up!

[mushroom25]

// That link about Southwold was from 2 April //

the age of the report is irrelevant. the locals still don't want you there infecting them.

[Deskdiary]

Then the people of Southwold are idiots if they think people who have second homes or people merely visiting are going to infect them.

[Gromit]

The scenario on 2nd April and 28th July are entirely different. Businesses are open now and want paying customers. And the contagion and death rates have peaked and are now a lot lower today.
If a couple of old nutters want to keep keep their village in lockdown in perpetuity, then we must assume they are not earning any money but spending money they have already amassed.
Nobody in business, in their right minds, are goung to shut out customers.

[diddlydo]

I went to Southwold at the end of May and was made very welcome. What they didn't want was all the second home-owners from London descending on Southwold in April when the pandemic was at its height in London. Times have changed.

[naomi24]

If they made you welcome I guess you interviewed several locals then, diddly. Did you ask how they recognised a day tripper or holiday-maker from a second home owner?

[diddlydo]

Naomi - I had conversations with several owners of independent food shops (where I went to buy their fantastic produce obviously) - they were all very happy that people were coming back because it meant they were selling more stuff rather than Southwold being like a ghost town while only local travel was allowed.

[Peter Pedant]

// Nobody in business, in their right minds, are goung to shut out customers.//

hmm - what would you do as a baker and someone said "deux pains au chocolat - oh lardy dah 0 I feel so hot I have just returned from Barrrthelony!"

would you really say 2/6 please - NEEEXT !
or would you say :
my god do you realise how much your actions will cost me - I now have to close the shop and destroy the stock ?
knowing yr auld grannie is upstairs knitting ( or doing AB ) and may DDDDIIIIIEEEEEE!

strikes me as straighforward
( but of course I aint mainstream AB )

[fiction-factory]

I love your posts PP- when I can understand them. This was a good one.

[Ellipsis]

I'm very glad that, back in January, I didn't book a holiday to the Spanish islands for the traditional factory fortnight which started this weekend. The ons, offs, on agains and now "Go. Oh - you've just gone?! Sorry but you're confined for a fortnight when you get back" is enough to drive anyone nuts. I do feel for them.

[teacake44]

I think the only ones that are nuts are the people that have booked holidays abroad, totally nuts. Some have spent weeks screaming for their money back from the last lot of bookings, only to do the same again. Out of the frying pan into the fire has they say. Regardless of all the above, who would be daft enough to hand large sums of money over to an industry that's on its uppers anyhow, and could go bust over night?

[Ellipsis]

As I said, many people booked their break before the pandemic hit. Those people have had months of uncertainty, but recently the government opened up travel again ... meaning that if those people cancelled, it was on them rather than the travel operator. Then, no sooner have they gone away than they're told they'll have to quarantine on their return.

[teacake44]

And many people have booked cheap deals in the last few weeks that the travel industry have offered in desperation to get cash in the bank, if you snapped them deals up then expect problems. The next problem you can expect is to turn up at you're holiday resort and find the hotel you've got booked has gone bust and closed, the last thing that hotel will be concerned about is informing you're travel agent. Its common sense you're going to have problems with a world pandemic, well to some.

[Bobbisox1]

Teacake, are you always this happy :0)

[teacake44]

Always. I've got sympathy for folk who lost their holiday at the start of the pandemic, but none at all for the rest of the clowns.

[Bobbisox1]

you always seem so angry , just saying' :0)

[teacake44]

Your getting angry, mixed up with truth, and may be more puzzled to how some folk can be so thick.

[Gromit]

teacake44

Grant Shapps, Secretary of State forTransport set up the air corridor scheme last month, and announced it to the public at a Covid Briefing on 28th June.
He went on his family holiday to Spain last week and has now fallen foul of his own scheme.
Are uou saying the Minister is thick and stupid ?

[Bobbisox1]

No most definitely angry TC, steamin' in fact :-))))

[teacake44]

10.52, yes, thick and stupid, like the rest of the government for allowing any holiday travel abroad this year, business travel a different ball game. Going on what I see on TV this week were you have parents taking young children on packed aircraft, and dragging them through airports, putting them at risk, just because ( they) want their two weeks in the sun, the same parents will be refusing to take their kids to school in September, claiming its to dangerous.
There's people working their butt off day and night to find some sort of vaccine that will help the situation, all people have to do is put off their holiday abroad this year to give them the vital months they need, its not has if you can't go for a few days away in this country, ( and the economy needs it) and not have the worry of being marooned abroad. For the ones that have gambled to go abroad don't come crying to the government to fly you home if you're airline go's bust, or you're hotel gets locked down. @11.00 Am I bothered what you think or dream. Naaaaaa