Originally Posted by
stevie
I commend your optimism. However. The only tool we have right now is lock down. Sure lots of work being done but we can only contain the virus by isolating. A great job done so far my certain countries, more work to be done in others.
This a localised battle where conditions of battle in each country are at different stages. Each local needs to win their battle and then gradual controlled opening up seeing people go back to work and kids go back to school. Only then can international travel be even considered on a wider scale.
Talk of this virus going as quickly and it appeared and Summer leisure travel starting in June I find sad really, given the efforts by ordinary people to isolate to the massive commitments people on the front line have/do give.
I am sorry but one needs to be optimistic; my cousin who runs a GP practice and his wife a physio who has been ‘retrained’ to cope with the Covid 19 and says she has had absolutely nothing to do since the outbreak; are planning summer holidays as are their friends in the medical profession. Their rationale is that it gives one something to look forward to and tourism is also so important for the local economies of the countries one hopes to visit! We have no idea what this virus might do and it might disappear suddenly but if it does not, then we must either learn to live with it because otherwise the magic money tree will collapse...