Originally Posted by
londonba2014
The fact of the matter is outbound passengers ARE an issue - they are breaking UK law - a journey to and through an airport increases transmission, a flight potentially too (think about crew - they don’t need to isolate but could pick something up).
On return it’s unlikely everyone will follow quarantine measures adding a greater risk to the UK population; regardless it’s an additional burden on the authorities to have to try to enforce (realise this is poor to begin with, but in principle).
Am stunned at the selfishness by some on here - totally with PG on this - am sure I’ll be jumped on/this post will be taken down in a bit whilst those encouraging departures will remain..
All of us want to get back into the air ASAP; but the more people who choose to break the law, the greater the risk of the virus spreading and the longer we’ll all be stuck on the ground - with the dreaded paper bags being served up once we get back into the air.
If you’re travelling for work you’re not breaking the law.
Believe it or not, walking past people in an airport is not a good way of passing on the virus.
If you want to pass the virus quickly and efficiently, stand face to face with people on a construction site all day long, take people to view houses and converse with them face to face, or better yet have people from anywhere any everywhere going into an environment which is colder than most places due to the fridges, and touching various surfaces oh and don’t forget all the droplets being exchanged when you say thank you to the cashier - guess where? The supermarket. Or the best one yet, a place where the ill go to collect their medication, the pharmacy. All of which are also legally open...
But wait, sitting in your own seat on a plane must be so bad...
If you honestly still believe the above situations are safer than travelling then I guess I can’t change your mind.
If you do indeed realise that sitting on your own seat in the plane, not unnecessarily conversing with strangers and spreading droplets, and not unnecessarily touching surfaces is much safer than visiting a pharmacy where 1000s of infected people must have come to pick up medication, but still want to criticise travel, well I do have to say it again, clearly it’s more of a problem that is within.