I think the attitude to any further lockdowns is totally different now due to the vaccine. That will be a hard one to sell.

I don't think the general public is as focused on 17 May as this forum is. In all the conversations I have with friends, family and neighbours on a daily basis the subject of summer holidays is almost never raised.

In fact, I think the public would be quite supportive of a postponement of international travel if the government could show that it was necessary.

Gosh it's so incredibly slow for you, can't you at least have the first one sooner? But I know the answer to this one, the exercise timings beforehand are perfectly placed! We have a bit of evidence that those who exercise their muscles, particularly their deltoids, before the jab get a slightly better / faster response to the vaccine, and perhaps slighrly less side effects. It's quite weak, I think it fails "significance" on a statistical basis, but looking at the raw data it still sticks out. So long as your body will have returned to normal heart beat and breathing immediately before vaccination this would be good for you. I usualy get a chuckle from the old dears when I advise them to not have a complicated next day after vaccination, but in your case you really do want a nice easy day after vaccination, so a perfect day for Flytertalk!

well, for people who are on blood pressure meds!

Round here we say "shy bairns get nowt".

Try fluttering your eyelashes!

Well we must move in very different social circles. It is pretty much the only topic of conversation I have with anyone these days - everyone is desperate for a does of normality, some hot weather etc.

I will try tonight at my two local health boards and report back. If they close 8, go for 7?

Thank you, this is perfect as we are focusing a lot of the exercises on the upper back :)
No, not possible to get the first one sooner. It is already sooner than expected, thanks to an unexpected 10 000 doses of BioNtech arriving in Rhineland-Palatinate yesterday.
I will bookmark my old favorites trip reports for the next day !

Yes. For us, that's when we would get tetchy about the number of needles lying around and any no-shows, I start muttering about getting my cattle prod out. Take your employers' ID card, it would help in England though I note your previous reactions there.

I completely disagree, some people have worked really hard over the last year and crave a holiday, also don't forget people want to see family they have been separated from for over a year too so its not just holidays, you must be lucky if all your family live nearby. I'm sad enough to read replies to Paul Charles tweets and people are desperate to see family. Sarah Vine a DM columnist who is married to Michael Gove hasn't seen her elderly parents in Italy for well over a year and seems worried about them, she mentions it frequently, there must be thousands of others in this situation.

I get that people want clarity, but the UK Government can only provide clarity insofar as their own restrictions. Stating the blinding obvious, but international travel requires clarity from other jurisdictions. And there aren’t many currently that are in as positive and stable scenario as the UK is, to be able to provide forward clarity with any real confidence level.

So ultimately I’m not sure how much certainty the UK making it’s own announcements will bring to most people in the context of planning trips etc.

Thanks. May the odds be ever in my favour and all fingers crossed!

I’m still friends with people in BA Engineering who are looking after the fleet mothballed in various corners of the UK, Europe and the Mid-East. The unanimous feedback is that they are getting ready for some sort of re-start (the planes in short term
storage can be stood up fairly quickly and pilots are, apart from those in the holding pools, current) but it’s not as if they’re forecasting a flood of activity come May 18th at midnight. In fact if one checks schedules for May 30th bank holiday there still isn’t much inventory going around, even for more bullish airlines such as Ryanair and Wizzair.

There’s also the other side of the equation to be considered, ie the other countries: while we’ve heard some rumblings from Greece and Spain and rumours from the US right now there isn’t really a lot of actual facts. It might all change come late April but... personally, right now I’m not really planning any travel for May or June and beyond that it’s just science fiction.

I would be beyond astonished if this isnt being discussed between the various governments - there have been so many leaks regarding the US that they are clearly coming from some officail source, and they would not be guiding in this way if the discussions about a mutual easing of restrictions hadnt taken place. And the major Euro-tourist hubs have already made positive noises, so are ahead of us on that front. It is in everyone's interests to get this part of the economy moving as soon as possible.