Why has dreaming, booking or taking a holiday become a symbol of the depths of moral turpitude that people can sink to?
I am not aware that anyone has been planning or booking a holiday to be taken before lockdown has been eased and we have been told it is safe to do so.
On top of that 15 million people have now had the COVID vaccination, including nearly all those most at risk. By the summer this figure may well have doubled or more and I am sure that most European countries will have caught up with us. On top of that, almost daily there are announcements of new treatments for COVID that will reduce number dying from the disease or being severely affected by it.
I am sceptical about all the talk about 'herd immunity'. COVID is with us like flu and will never disappear. Like flu, it will be equally mutable, but annual jabs and improved treatments, will reduce its prevalence and danger.
Life has never been risk free and sooner or later we have to get back to normal life. My sister was killed in a road accident, my daughter severely injured and left with a mild disability after one, and I have had one or two shunts over the years, but I have not locked myself in my house, thrown away the key and vowed never even to cross a road again. I have shouldered the risk and continue to use road transport as normal.
So later on this week we will be booking a holiday for late-September/October, DS has booked a family holiday in the school holidays, both holidays UK based, although we will be off to check our house in France at the first available opportunity. And if COVID takes off again, which I doubt, all will be cancelled. Who else is joining me in the depths of hell? In this cold weather it is wonderfully warm!