I find it perplexing and frustrating that many people in the UK seem intent on travelling abroad to amber/red list countries this year, and like some invading army, don't seem to really care about the obvious perils involved to themselves and everyone else they come into close contact with. Not only are these people potentially spreading a highly contagious variant (Lineage B.1.617) from the UK to wherever they travel to, but also potentially bringing other variants back to areas of our own country that don't currently have them. We're not at herd immunity yet for even the current crop of virus, and judging by the shear amount of infected people out there hosting replicating particles right now, it's likely that at some point a new variant will escape the current vaccines (just like flu does) and then we'll be back to square one (oh deep joy!).
Our Government isn't helping much either in my estimation, I was listening to a minister talking about this on Times Radio this morning and it was as confusing as hell, the message seemed to flip-flop between, you can travel but don't travel, mix indoors but not in certain places (although people from those places seem oblivious?), be cautious but spend, spend, spend etc. Why on earth can't the state institutions simply mandate caution for now while this new variant is causing cases to spike? Be explicit and clear by implementing unambiguous (lockdown) rules along with timetables so that people can plan their lives, it seems we're destined to make the same mistakes over and over again, such a shame.
No comments:
Post a Comment