Originally Posted by
GBOAC
If a vaccine starts to roll out in 2021, and two classes of people exist in the mean time - vaccinated who can travel freely (even if they are older and less likely to be travelling) and unvaccinated who cannot/still subject to quarantine either overseas or back in the UK, where does this leave BAEC status going forward - extend for those who have not had a vaccine, rely on 25% reduced earnings for those vaccinated? It all starts to become complicated...
I think it is way too early to speculate what might happen with vaccination and entry requirements. Many Governments will want their own high-risk populations vaccinated before allowing lower-risk individuals to benefit. We also do not know if this vaccine will reduce asymptomatic transmission, so it might not be suitable for a population-level vaccination programme. If it is not, other vaccines might be, or they might not. We just do not know. This is the problem with government taking heads getting on the news last night and this morning talking of "distant bugles" and this kind of nonsense. We are not there yet.