That sinking feeling — when word comes through that another country is being removed from the exemption list. Of course, we don’t get the rationale or the data behind the decision. Even when that decision, as with Greece this week, is different from the other UK administrations — who all use the same data. This crisis needs international collaboration at least at European-wide level to find solutions. Instead we find that we cannot even work consistently within the UK.
In the announcement there’s no reference to the haemorrhaging of jobs and passengers; no reference to the plummeting confidence in travel caused by the blunt force trauma of the current quarantine policy. The impact of this weekly lottery of countries dropping in and out of the