//NJ that was an example...I have no kids or grandkids//
OK woofy, what risk do you see in one hugging one’s grandchildren then?
//People should just write this year off for foreign travel//
Well in my case, tomus, that would involve also writing off a tidy sum of money in order to avoid going to a place which has fewer new cases and far fewer deaths per head than here. I paid for my trip long before this nonsense began and it is not refundable. The airline will refund my fare if they cancel my flight but there seems little chance of that happening. I have travel insurance but that will only reimburse me if I am actually prevented from travelling. But it isn’t the money particularly (if it was I would not have parted with it in the first place). I actually want to travel. I am not spending any of my time locked away from a disease that I have a very small chance on contracting especially when that disease – and the measures being taken to “control” it – are likely to be around indefinitely as far as I can see. Risk aversion has become a new industry in the UK and it’s not being studied properly.
//must be sun lovers, who like sitting on deck chairs or sand, roasting like sausages in the backing sun, and paying for over priced food and tat in markets...catching or spreading a virus is a....no biggie.
stuck on a metal tube with possibly infected passengers err worth it.//
I’m planning none of those activities, fender, and even if I was that’s not a reason to criticise what people want to do. I have probably stood as much chance of catching the virus on the buses, trains and tubes I have been using in the last four months as I have of doing so on an aircraft.