Staycation

Given it's been minus seven yesterday and darn cold throughout the week even though I'm normally super hot blooded perhaps it's understandable that for some minds are focused upon Summer vacations beyond these shores.

There had been a lot of talk in the mass media about getting away for summer and the much criticised "Jab and fly" promotion by Ryan Air, an Irish company implying that in effect you get vaccinated and then we can go to all corners of the World.

Well Mike Hancock, Health secretary and Grant Shapps Transport minister have put a damp squid on that idea in tackling the problem of people who had been abroad needing to quarantine upon return and just not doing it, potentially spreading covid of different variants.

In short, people from next week will need to be booked in a hotel at their own expense if they travel from a country on a list of 33 hots spots for ten days where they will have to stay and any time outside such as going out for a smoke will be supervised.

If you do not tell the truth regarding where you have been or otherwise break the regulations then you are likely to face a ten year prison sentence because the risks to the public are huge with this virus being something that does kill and such contact would effect potentially several bystanders who may well require treatment by our stretched health service.

The travel industry isn't happy about this - far from it - but honestly unless you are going act responsibly which a good number of people haven't then you are going to have to be made to do so.

Many of us do indeed badly need a break, this last eleven months has been stressful and some more for people not least those unable to do what they normally would  and for those of us with health issues or disabilities but it is likely at some point we'll be able to do so 'at home' but going abroad where a good number of countries do not want visitors as they too battle with this awful virus really is a very bad idea.

Let's concentrate on slowly getting things going again in our own country for our children and then build up more things for adults rather than rushing off risking so much.