Quote Originally Posted by Andy_Faber View Post
My own response is it DOES make sense to offer some relief for the most important family get together of the year, my own opinion is it should have been shorter - travel/stay Christmas Eve, stay Christmas Day, return travel Boxing Day, but that's just one of a million opinions. BUT there are problems with ANY decision, including allowing no alleviation at all - some folk will assess the offering and treat it as a MAXIMUM (yourself included) and either scale down or cancel, and at the other end of the scale there are folk who will jolly up to the max and beyond - its human nature. To my mind it makes no difference now, there isn't a non-vax solution which doesn't result in mutually assured destruction, either of our wealth or health. IMO the absolute maximum effort should be applied to the acquisition of the vaccine and its provision to the population in the order already determined. The whole of the free world is failing to be disciplined enough to control things despite now having two pops at it, the vaccine gives everyone offered it peace of mind - that they have either taken on immunity or are happy to run the gauntlet
Okay, straight answer, but I’m sorry, I disagree.
Three households over five days equates to the potential for huge and protracted family gatherings and a huge amount of unnecessary travel. At this particular time we (society and the NHS) cannot afford the likely consequences of that and it is the primary job of Government to keep us safe.
Potentially this is going to make a negative difference and it is going to be a long time before the vaccine is available in sufficient quantities for sufficient people to have the protection which you and I both agree now requires the maximum effort and appears to be the only way ‘out’.