It’s not rocket science. It’s old-fashioned jumbo-jet science.
It makes no sense to lock all of us up if the world and his uncle is free to bring new variants of coronavirus into the country.
Every time another lethal strain of coronavirus is discovered the government flails around for days, if not weeks, and then slaps down a ban on travel from the country of origin.
Once again, we’re leaving our borders wide open to another threat. Air Covid is operating a full new mutant service from San Paulo.
So why can’t the government act NOW and stop it coming into the UK?
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After all, the countries that closed their borders quickest and hardest - Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam - had the lowest number of victims.
This is infuriating to people in our country who are ordered, by law, to stay at home and avoid any social contact, while potentially-infected travellers can come and go with insufficient restrictions on their movements because Boris Johnson dithers.
That’s what happened with the South African version of the bug. Ministers have known about it for weeks, but the prohibition on travellers coming here only begins to operate from tomorrow.
It’s the same with the so-called Brazilian strain, which populist president Bolsonaro has let rip through his country. The boys from Brazil are still coming through Heathrow.
Under fierce questioning from Labour’s Yvette Cooper yesterday, procrastinating premier Boris Johnson insisted that measures were being put in place to stop any viral traffic from the most populous country in South America.
But he couldn’t say what they were, or how effective they might be.
He bleated about the virtues of the UK’s quarantine system, knowing full well that nine out of ten cases are not followed up.
Other countries are quick to slap on travel bans. France, then the whole of Europe and much of the rest of the world, prohibited entry when the fast-spreading “Kent virus” was detected.
These are desperate times. The virus is in a hurry, but this government isn’t.
