Malibuflyer wrote:
Don’t think that many kids are dumb enough to go for it…
It only takes one in the entire class to get the whole lot into isolation for two weeks
My son observed at Easter that it was the first time ever for children to be sad when the holidays started.
Locally we had a lot of probable false positives with lateral flow tests – there was talk of a contaminated batch. This was in hospital by people who should have been using them correctly. Perhaps other brands are better, but our experience was that they could cause mayhem.
It’s good to be on the other side of this particular episode in history, locally. We still have a few restrictions, I think on large indoor sporting events etc. I haven’t been to one of those for decades, but still look forward to complete rollback of government intervention.
We’re also planning our next trip to Europe, waiting for a while for the smoke to clear in that part of the world but still planning on a bit of time in the Alps this year. Friends continue to plan something more extensive, almost a month in 4 to 6 countries and I’ll be interested to see how the border crossings and ferry embarkation goes for them.
the first time ever for children to be sad when the holidays started.
The mismanagement of this crisis has been terrible for many kids, whose parents are “only just about functional enough” (drink, drugs, poor health, very low IQ, etc – “chaotic lives” is the PC name for it) to get out of bed and get the kids to school, and these kids have reportedly just disappeared from school, for the past year. It is a tragedy, because for these kids the school is probably the only place with some normality.
It’s good to be on the other side of this particular episode in history, locally
I think this is because the US managed to vaccinate most people (and probably almost all who actually travel abroad, which is only a small % in the US) well before they got the Indian variant in any numbers – which the US will get but it won’t matter.
This is a good thing because if the US economy got trashed, the rest of the world would have a big problem.
No, not that many Americans go to ‘Majorca’ or Croatia although I’ve been to the latter a number of times 
Otherwise, having one of the world’s busiest international land borders might arguably count as people traveling abroad, given that its shared with a developing country of 127 million people having little political or medical system commonality, and one which is currently seeing an upswing in CV-19 cases…
That trend is not international (with respect to the US/Mexico border) because of, as you say, people on the US side getting themselves immunized so they can get on with their lives and stop worrying about other people’s business.
For comparison with the data I posted above, here’s today’s data for Mexico.
Peter wrote:
The mismanagement of this crisis has been terrible for many kids, whose parents are “only just about functional enough” (drink, drugs, poor health, very low IQ, etc
Our house is a bit messy, but we’re not that bad.
On a serious and sad note, I’m sure you’re absolutely right, though there was some attempt to keep these kids in education. My sister’s children went to ‘keyworker’ school and played Minecraft all day every day, but most of their classmates were there for social-services reasons rather than because their parents were keyworkers.
No doubt this applies to many outside the UK too because India was a major exporter, to Germany also.
Bureaucratic BS again… paperwork over facts. It’s the same stuff just branded differently.
Well, the summer vaccation season turns into a disaster. Of course that was perfectly clear but nobody would want to listen.
Mallorca has thousands of new cases, several super spreader events and is keeping whole hotels under quarantine.
l,,
Portugal has had a surge of cases and will most likely be going on the red lists again, some countries are evacuating their tourists.
So the 4th wave is there, it is rising and it will shut down Europe yet again, with millions of tourists not at home, so we will see full evacuations, repatriation flights and other stuff all over again.
People are really too stupid to learn. If they have to travel, then they have to keep the measures strictly. Not making bloody parties. And what about concerts in arenas? Are they simply crazy?
Covid will never go away, that much is sure. Who is surprised? Doing soccer matches, travelling to Russia, Spain, Portugal where the virus is rampant? How stupid are people? We need to finally shut all this down for ever and stop behaving as if it is all not true. And we need to force vaccine all the idiots who are more afraid of Bill Gates Chips than getting the illness. We need to ban all non-essential travel and put those who need to travel under strict quarantine and test regimes. And I actually doubt that there is such a thing as essential travel at times like this. Shut the airlines down other than for cargo flights. I would also go on full lockdown again but well, people will rather die than that I guess.
Well, Covid is going to win this war. No question anymore. Maybe it was just meant to be this way.
Vaccination is the key
If Majorca let in unvacced people, what did they expect? Did they really do that? N Europe has some way to go, especially with the demographic doing the Spanish holidays and close socialising.
Here in the UK it has finally been accepted that provided you are fully vacced, the virus spread is irrelevant. This has been obvious from the data for months but officially nobody wanted to say it (the standard phrase, repeated ad nauseum, was that the link between the deaths and the virus has been “weakened”).
