George wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 12:37 pm
Let’s concentrate on my view on travel from India
OK, let's do that:
George wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:52 am
Unbelievably, and despite warnings and plenty of evidence, we have decided to allow a new and even more worrying variant into the country. It has safe passage until 4am Friday when we will cease flights from India.
That's a very odd way of saying that the government has
announced that India has been added to the red list and given a few days' notice. Now there's an argument that it could/should have been added earlier, or with less notice - but equally it's reduced the notice from the last time, when a week's notice was given for other countries including Bangladesh and Pakistan.
So notwithstanding how long the decision took, the fact is half the notice has been given for adding India to the red list.
George wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:29 pm
4000 Indians are flying in every week
A briefing document drawn up by officials at Public Health England shows that between 25 March and 7 April, 3,345 arrivals from India were registered in UK border travel data - so roughly 1,675 per week across that fortnight (source: BBC news item linked above).
Unless you can source other data to the contrary, you've inflated the figure nearly 2.5 times.
George wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 9:15 pm
There are 30 flights a day between the UK and India.
No there aren't. There are 30 a WEEK (a limit set by the Indian government), so you've inflated the figure 7 times.
George wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:52 am
I am done with following the rules.
And this is the real point - you're desperate for any excuse to stop following Covid rules, hardly surprising since you were advocating last August for everyone to get back to work and in October for us to all grow up and get on with life.
In under 24 hours' time, anyone arriving from India will have to quarantine. Stop looking for excuses, follow the guidance.