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Looks Like I Was Right Again
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I did say a few weeks ago when the government relaxed holiday travel abroad, that we would see planes coming back to the UK full of covid cases, well we've seen the first TIU flight. And that's the one we know about.??
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// Teacake seems to be claiming plane travel is a higher risk... which it may be. // that's almost certainly correct. the capacity of buses and trains is substantiall
13:35 Mon 31st Aug 2020
It wasn't exactly "full" of Covid though, was it? Sixteen cases among 193 passengers and crew. I'll repeat what I posted on another thread yesterday (particularly relevant as the island of Zante is mentioned, which is where the flight in question originated from):
The average daily number of new cases across the whole of Greece over the last seven days was just over 200. Not surprisingly most of the cases are on the mainland. Today, on the islands, 15 new cases were reported on Crete, 7 on Lesbos, 2 on Zante, 2 in the Cyclades (the specific islands are not confirmed). Over the past seven days in the UK the average daily number of new infections was 1,244. In the last seven days in Birmingham there were over 300 new cases.
Your prediction was almost bound to come true at some point (and the Zante-Cardiff flight was on 25th August). There's no knowing where the people on board contracted the virus. If they'd been abroad for only a week the chances are they were infectious before they left. But looking at the figures I provided above, I'd be far more concerned about potential infections on a train from New Street to Euston.
Virtually every time I return from abroad I have some sort of bug. A short while after Mrs NJ and I returned to England in late February we both had a horrendous cough and 'flu like symptoms. Lasted about four or five days. We could well have had Covid (it wasn't fashionable then), who knows? People catch infectious diseases. It cannot be prevented. The sooner that is accepted the quicker we can abandon all the pretence that we can be "kept safe". The lunatics that are devising all the ridiculous measures from which we are all suffering can go and do something useful and life can resume as normal.
The average daily number of new cases across the whole of Greece over the last seven days was just over 200. Not surprisingly most of the cases are on the mainland. Today, on the islands, 15 new cases were reported on Crete, 7 on Lesbos, 2 on Zante, 2 in the Cyclades (the specific islands are not confirmed). Over the past seven days in the UK the average daily number of new infections was 1,244. In the last seven days in Birmingham there were over 300 new cases.
Your prediction was almost bound to come true at some point (and the Zante-Cardiff flight was on 25th August). There's no knowing where the people on board contracted the virus. If they'd been abroad for only a week the chances are they were infectious before they left. But looking at the figures I provided above, I'd be far more concerned about potential infections on a train from New Street to Euston.
Virtually every time I return from abroad I have some sort of bug. A short while after Mrs NJ and I returned to England in late February we both had a horrendous cough and 'flu like symptoms. Lasted about four or five days. We could well have had Covid (it wasn't fashionable then), who knows? People catch infectious diseases. It cannot be prevented. The sooner that is accepted the quicker we can abandon all the pretence that we can be "kept safe". The lunatics that are devising all the ridiculous measures from which we are all suffering can go and do something useful and life can resume as normal.
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