Nobby_66
Vital Football Hero
Absolutely agree, they're not my thoughts. I was purely trying to reason why they would put in the quarantine for the whole of spain, as i said, the islands have such a low infection rate (lower than ours) that it makes no sense to quarantine people returning from there.Having not yet got on to such matters with my sons' homework, I don't know, maybe you're right.
A quick Google shows in 2018, 25,511 people were seriously injured on the roads in Britain. That amounts to about 1 in every 2500 people.
There are an estimated 367,000 new cases of cancer diagnosed in the UK every year. That's about 1 in every 180 people.
There are any number of things out there that can bring our time on this planet to an end. This is just another one of them. My point is simply that sometimes, watching the news and reading the papers, you can get the impression that this virus is absolutely everywhere. It doesn't hurt sometimes to stop and think just how unlikely it is that it's going to affect you, put things into perspective a little. And yes, of course, I know that for those who are (severely) affected by it, and for their families, it's a tragedy, but so is any death, from any cause.
But if you're going to think like that, what's to stop people travelling via France? Or even Italy (a flight from Madrid to Rome is quicker than Madrid to Lanzarote)? After all, if it's OK for Stanley Johnson to travel to Greece via Bulgaria...
I think you and I have got embroiled in one of those threads where we are both arguing the same point without realising .
As for the rest of your post, I agree also. Trouble is, it's hard to talk about it in such a rational way without sounding cold to those who have lost loved ones. (of which I am one) I'm all for taking precautions (face coverings, hand sanitiser etc) but also believe we should not let it rule our lives. I believe we have been below the "5 year average" death rate now by some 6%, leading some scientists to believe COVID-19 merely "brought forward" the inevitable for some by a few months, my uncle definitely being one.