But impacting the speed of the spread is what we need now Stan. The Black Death did actually take some time to reach Europe, and further to spread inland from the ports. Nowadays it is perfectly possible to restrict the spread of diseases from one region to another - we have had Tuberculosis in parts of Eastern Europe and Russia for quite some time now without it spreading. They also still have the plague (same strain as the black Death) in one part of China but every time they get a few cases of it they seal off the area completely. This was how they stopped this present virus from decimating other towns and cities in China - by sealing off whole areas so that nothing was coming in or going out. We didn't do the same which is why it travelled from Wuhan to Europe quicker than making the trip to other towns in China. The assumption that 'they will spread whatever' is false - the World has always been full of epidemics and most of them have remained localized.
Having checked up I think your figures are the correct ones Oslo - Germany is so full of doom and gloom at the moment that the more optimistic figures may have been more palatable - or maybe it was just another flight. Germany is really a depressing place to be at the moment - the rate of non vaccinated being higher here, and in Austria and Switzerland, than in other Western European countries. Not that the vaccines aren't there - they are, it's just that the anti vacc brigade is bigger, which is placing us all in greater danger.
Wouldn’t you just make an appointment at a testing station when you get back? Shouldn’t be paying for them.
Got to be booked and paid for prior to travel. My trip to lanzarote has just been quashed as my 16 year old isnt fully vaccinated.
It’s amazingly frustrating at the moment, we know we have a new version of this **** but we really don’t know how serious it is, and won’t for a couple of weeks. On the one hand we have the World Health Organisation (which has hardly covered itself in glory the last couple of years) spouting doom and gloom and on the other essentially ‘no change’ from Johnson. As always, likely to end up in between.
This is a lot easier to say than to actually go through with. Austria is bringing in mandatory vaccination at the beginning of February (because they know they need until then to plan the logistics), Germany is thinking about it and will start debating the subject sometime next year (and then take a bit longer to find out if it's compatible with the constitution). Apparently the disease is going to rest up until then !
