Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
Agreed. Less than 5m people, land mass 10% bigger than the space that 66m who live in the UK occupy. borders still locked and compulsary 2week quarantine in proscribed accommodation. Been that way since they saw what was happening in Italy in Feb/March 2020. going to have to stay like that for ever more? tourist industry going to have to depend on staycations, no new money coming in from that previously important wealth generating activity. As a country it is not reasonable to compare their experience with the options available to Scotland or the UK, IMO.
If Johnson had banned summer holidays last year likelihood is that the 2nd wave wouldn't have happened, not as severely as it did anyway. But he's only about his popularity rather than trying to be a serious politician like Ardern in NZ. 26 deaths compared to 126,000, the numbers don't lie.