Why Are Flights From India Still Landing?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/flights-india-still-landing-uk-24136573

[eve1974]

But TTT that wld be discriminatory for U.K. nationals because the government (surely?) has a duty to protect them? Same as if they needed to fly U.K. subjects back from a disaster area / war zone

[eve1974]

I still reckon that as they have to have the pcr test and hole up
In quarantine hotel that the passengers pose less of a risk than the crew?

Like I said crew won’t be quarantined each side and also the airport staff cleaning n reloading the planes are risked

[ToraToraTora]

no, no flights from India, period, if you are there stay there, end of.

[eve1974]

*at risk*

[ToraToraTora]

unsureme: "Tora,My Firm? Thought you worked in a Bank?" What The Funicular are you on about?

[gulliver1]

Trouble is, UK tourists are going to take the Indian version with them to E/U Countries and spread it across Europe .Flights from Uk to E/U resorts should not be allowed.

[eve1974]

And that gulliver, is one more reason why we (the world) need to get the idea that we can live without covid out of our heads. We are gonna have to (all) learn to live with it. We can’t stop it mutating n spreading etc (unfortunately)

[DTCwordfan]

Someone has to own a bank - TTT's surname could be 'Money-Coutts'.... and with the pre-names of Ivor Lotov

[jno]

eve, it mutates most in countries that have the most cases. That's why the worrying variants have been from Brazil, Britain and India. (I'm only surprised there hasn't been an American one.)

As to why flights are still landing - well, it was the same a year ago, wasn't it? No fast action, just "Oh let's be nice to everyone and give them a few weeks to sort themselves out." By and large, the countries that reacted quickest have done better than those who decided to wait and see what would happen. An easy enough lesson to learn, I would have thought.

[Togo]

I wonder how many who are flying in from India will go straight into staffing our hospital wards at the first opportunity? As yet we have not reported any cases of the "Black Fungus" (mucormycosis) which has a 50% mortality rate and is raging across India. When it enters our hospital wards do not be surprised. If it takes as long to eradicate as the other infections that blighted our hospital beds, God help anyone who needs treatment there.

[DTCwordfan]

And there's what we call 'Nogovirus' down here. They have found that seaweed can prevent it and there's a plan to bury the Tower of Treliske hospital in it - from top to bottom of all 10 floors.

[eve1974]

But if some of the folk from India go on to staff the hospitals I don’t see a problem because..... they wld have had to do the compulsory isolation / pcr tests first.
Again I still don’t see the passengers as being the problem. Only the crew.

[237SJ]

^ The crew aren't staying in India. They are literally going there and back without disembarking the aircraft.

[ummmm]

Would they disinfect the plane like they did with SARS?

[eve1974]

Surely not? It’s a long flight and for H&S reasons the crew wld need to be swapped? And then there’s the ground crew based at airports who have to embark each plane to clean it and restock it. Those airport crews are at risk of getting covid .... and thereafter spreading it

[237SJ]

Nobody ever disinfected planes with SARS

[eve1974]

Ummmm unlikely - my stepson is part of the ground crew at Gatwick (tho he doesn’t work gor an airline that does India) - he tells me the cleaning n restocking “germ control” is a joke ! In other words almost non existent

[237SJ]

Eve - crews have been going to China and back in one shift - India is nothing

[eve1974]

Ok I stand corrected. Very surprised.