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  1. Old Goat

    Old Goat Well-Known Member

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    Discussing how latest developments might impact on "our foreign holidays" this year. Had that travel guy Simon Calder on. He reckoned that you could still go abroad, providing (a) you can find an airline, (b) you can find a country to let you in, and (c) you're happy to quarantine for 14 days when you return. He also said that if you didn't fancy the quarantine, you could just go via a non-flying option (I assume ferry or chunnel) and thus avoid having to quarantine on your return.

    All of which sounds completely bonkers to me. And what he failed to cover was how much of your holiday you might need to spend in quarantine when you arrive at your chosen destination.

    Thankfully us goats don't holiday abroad...
     
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    How is someone arriving in the country via a ferry not a health risk, when someone arriving by plane is considered to be?
     
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    Beats me.
     
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    Farnham_Red Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    The cyncic might suggest that because the government has been given lots of stick for allowing unrestricted entry via air they are implementing the policy to stop the criticism. The fact that its 2 months too late and now is pointless isnt important - its from a PR point of view the right thing to do which is all that they care about.
    No one has been moaning about ferries yet so they didnt bother with that one

    On a more serious note its very difficult to do ferries as you cant quarantine truck drivers for 14 days if you actually want food to make it to the shops

    and its impossible to do anything about the Irish Republic without implementing a hard border
     
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    Absolutely, I mean those cruise ships have been a paradise away from the virus!
     
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    Old Goat Well-Known Member

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    He also said that you're ok if you're coming in from Ireland or France (Ireland I knew about, France I didn't), because Boris has had a chat with their PMs. o_O
     
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    Bars still open in Iceland ,
     
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    They’ve changed their mind now, it includes other transport methods. But not if you come from France or Ireland.
     
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    Belarus and Sweden too.
     
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    Iceland had a contact tracing app about 6 weeks ago (75000+ downloads) and tested a significant proportion of their population. Under 10 have died and at least one was a visitor. Oh, and they have been quarantining arrivals since March 16th.
     
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    How do we quarantine truck drivers if we want the food delivering on time
     
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    Make em stay in their truck.
     
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    They're excluded from the quarantine requirements.
     
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    Iceland the hub of the world and a population of 360,000
     
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    Not really much point in stopping anyone then
     
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    us Dragon's aint been abroad for over 20 years and do we miss it, not a bit. There are some totally fabulous places in the UK that are just as good.
     
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    Do we quarantine all the illegal immigrants crossing the channel
     
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    Yes we can if we catch them, but they come here illegally...the clues in the name
     
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    Indeed there are, It’ll be interesting to see how high the costs will rocket for all aspects of a British holiday, as the Holiday abroad becomes unaffordable and/or unavailable to many
     
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    I'm a big fan of Louise Minchin & Naga Munchetty on BBC Breakfast.
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