O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[ramAnag]

an interesting difference in the response to the removal of Portugal from the Green List. Looking at some of the media headlines, whilst the printed press have pulled the 'fury' card and TV/radio wheeled out 'expert' after expert to condemn the decision, the general feeling (even in the media) from the public is a lot more understanding. My daughter works in travel and she reports there has been NO anger expressed to her or her people, folk are accepting that its a changing position and they just have to roll with it. My daughter herself has has plans to attend a conference scuppered but she and her fellow delegates, all a couple of hundred quid down, have just shrugged their shoulders. The media and the population out of synch again

In specific relation to Portugal...slightly bewildering that five days after the various authorities (football and national Governments) saw fit to sanction around 12,000 football fans travelling from the UK to Portugal that Portugal comes off the green list.
Wasn’t it always blindingly obvious that, in the current circumstances, a Champions League Final between two English clubs would have been best held in...England maybe?

[Andy_Faber]

In specific relation to Portugal...slightly bewildering that five days after the various authorities (football and national Governments) saw fit to sanction around 12,000 football fans travelling from the UK to Portugal that Portugal comes off the green list.
Wasn’t it always blindingly obvious that, in the current circumstances, a Champions League Final between two English clubs would have been best held in...England maybe?

It was a bit damned if you do damned if you don’t on that one rA, it went to Lisbon because UEFA demanded (and were contracted to allow) access to the world’s press, which in itself numbered thousands, a condition HMG were unwilling to accept

[ramAnag]

It was a bit damned if you do damned if you don’t on that one rA, it went to Lisbon because UEFA demanded (and were contracted to allow) access to the world’s press, which in itself numbered thousands, a condition HMG were unwilling to accept

There’s a lot of ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ about at the moment AF, but this seemed particularly stupid. I’m sure we could have all functioned with the ‘world’s press’ commenting via TV coverage. The (entirely predictable) result now is, at the very least, thousands of fans having to self isolate.
Credit to HMG if, as you say, they weren’t willing to accept the risk of the world’s press entering the country but surely UEFA could have shown a little more common sense.

[Andy_Faber]

There’s a lot of ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ about at the moment AF, but this seemed particularly stupid. I’m sure we could have all functioned with the ‘world’s press’ commenting via TV coverage. The (entirely predictable) result now is, at the very least, thousands of fans having to self isolate.
Credit to HMG if, as you say, they weren’t willing to accept the risk of the world’s press entering the country but surely UEFA could have shown a little more common sense.

Blinded by € signs I would guess