Partner desperate to go abroad ...

Pollycat

ad_man said:

You are assuming, in it has to be said rather a patronising manner, that everyone travels in exactly the same way: I personally only fly with hand luggage (no baggage reclaim) and do not do coach transfers. ‘Queuing at security/check-in’ is no different to queuing to enter a supermarket – spaced accordingly – and ‘sitting on the plane’ that has air filtration systems equipped with HEPA filters is I can assure you lower risk than then entering said supermarket. Or gym, cinema, theatre, pub, bus, train, office, doctor surgery… the list goes on.  

I regret you found my reply patronising.

It was a valid question to the poster I quoted. They are the things we considered before cancelling our late August holiday. They all applied to us. I didn't say they applied to everybody.

But thank you for pointing out the error of my assumption.

I've seen clips of people queuing at airports recently and I can assure you that they bear no resemblance to the 'queue' I was in at Aldi yesterday - one person in front of me, nobody behind.

I can't speak for these places - gym, cinema, theatre, pub, train, office, doctor surgery as I've not visited any of those.

However, the bus I caught yesterday had a maximum of 5 passengers at any one time. I doubt that a plane to Greece would have that ratio.

ad_man

No, but you obvioulsy implied that they applied to the poster. As for:  'Can you calculate that risk when you have no idea who is stood in front of you or behind you or sat next to you?' Again, a sweeping assumption. It would not be far stretched to have say, two daughters with grand parents stood in front another daughter and son stood behind and your partner next to you. Snap for seating.    

lady1964

Both my DH & I are planning to travel abroad next month; we’ve had to cancel a 3 week holiday to Australia to see our DD and we’re now looking carefully at where we could go. The plan currently is to book somewhere via BA holidays but we’re doing plenty of research on several destinations and keeping a very close eye on FCO advice.

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Pollycat said:

Do you consider queuing at check-in, Security, sitting on the plane, passport control, luggage reclaim, coach transfer to resort and the same in reverse at the end of your holiday to be 'low risk'? Can you calculate that risk when you have no idea who is stood in front of you or behind you or sat next to you?

Ad-man beat me to it but was going to say I don't think it would be any worse than going shopping.  There will be distancing markers am sure and if not then surely people know to leave a gap between themselves and the person in front?   Am sure they will work something out with baggage reclaim also.     Can't see it being any more risky than anything else other than staying inside your own home that is.     Anyway it doesn't matter what we think, if the OP decides to go I hope they have a wonderful time and come back to tell us about it.

Pollycat

ad_man said:

No, but you obvioulsy implied that they applied to the poster. As for:  'Can you calculate that risk when you have no idea who is stood in front of you or behind you or sat next to you?' Again, a sweeping assumption. It would not be far stretched to have say, two daughters with grand parents stood in front another daughter and son stood behind and your partner next to you. Snap for seating.    

I don't see where I obviously implied that it applied to the poster.

Please do not read things into the words I write that are not there.

It wasn't a 'sweeping assumption'.

It was a question.

This symbol ? gave it away.

Pollycat

Tedber said:

Ad-man beat me to it but was going to say I don't think it would be any worse than going shopping.  There will be distancing markers am sure and if not then surely people know to leave a gap between themselves and the person in front?   Am sure they will work something out with baggage reclaim also.     Can't see it being any more risky than anything else other than staying inside your own home that is.     Anyway it doesn't matter what we think, if the OP decides to go I hope they have a wonderful time and come back to tell us about it.

I don't know about you but I don't spend anywhere near the same amount of time in a shop than I do in the check-in queue, Security queue, on the plane, luggage reclaim. Maybe you fast-track through it all...

I wasn't replying to the OP. It was a different poster that I quoted.

sheramber

Cinema and theatres are  not open because of th risk of infection.
Doctors are doing phone appointments and you only go into surgery  f necessary premises are locked  and you have to wait to be allowed in , no queuing  and one to one visit.
Those who went to the pub in Aberdeen thought it was safe to do so or did not care.  Now 54 are infected with  numbers  rising every day  and Aberdeen is back in lockdown with  pubs now closed.
Wetherspoons   and KFc have  closed restaurants because  of infection.
So while we all want to 'live' we need to take stock of the risks involved.
 

silvercar

sheramber said:

Cinema and theatres are  not open because of th risk of infection.
Doctors are doing phone appointments and you only go into surgery  f necessary premises are locked  and you have to wait to be allowed in , no queuing  and one to one visit.
Those who went to the pub in Aberdeen thought it was safe to do so or did not care.  Now 54 are infected with  numbers  rising every day  and Aberdeen is back in lockdown with  pubs now closed.
Wetherspoons   and KFc have  closed restaurants because  of infection.
So while we all want to 'live' we need to take stock of the risks involved.
 

And thousands of people have eaten out since restaurants opened and been fine. 
Crossing a road is a risk; you have to decide what you are comfortable with, that doesn't give you entitlement to criticise the choices others have made.

sheramber

silvercar said:

sheramber said:

Cinema and theatres are  not open because of th risk of infection.
Doctors are doing phone appointments and you only go into surgery  f necessary premises are locked  and you have to wait to be allowed in , no queuing  and one to one visit.
Those who went to the pub in Aberdeen thought it was safe to do so or did not care.  Now 54 are infected with  numbers  rising every day  and Aberdeen is back in lockdown with  pubs now closed.
Wetherspoons   and KFc have  closed restaurants because  of infection.
So while we all want to 'live' we need to take stock of the risks involved.
 

And thousands of people have eaten out since restaurants opened and been fine. 
Crossing a road is a risk; you have to decide what you are comfortable with, that doesn't give you entitlement to criticise the choices others have made.

As i said we have to take stock of the risk involved.
We each  make our own risk assessment and decide based on that.
The OP asked for points to consider and people have given him them. 
The OP  and   partner will make  their own decision based on what they  consider an acceptable risk.

Thrugelmir

sheramber said:

Cinema and theatres are  not open because of th risk of infection.

 

Cineworld reopened last week.