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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

Do you accept that we shouldn’t be going abroad?

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Q

Surely it is time you accepted the uncomfortable fact that in a pandemic people should not be crossing international borders for fun?

Please don’t use that argument that such travel is often to places with far lower national rates of infection than here in the UK and therefore such holidaymakers are actually safer abroad. This is a completely facile and false argument because:

a) A low national rate might conceal far higher rates in places where foreign visitors are staying.

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