Covid Borders Bollix

 

I think this 'closing borders' claim in today's Scotsman is a load of old bollix because key workers have been crossing borders every day delivering essential supplies.

Take Slovakia (population 5.45 million) for example - this small landlocked country has a far better Covid record than Scotland and is bordered on five sides by Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic.

So, arguably, what people do inside national borders is far more important than pretending that everyone can be kept in or out - testing and tracing all travellers would be a huge step forward for a start, even more so back in the summer. 

Yet the Scottish Government refused to test travellers or citizens returning to Scotland and having been abroad twice since March 2020 I can attest to the fact that there have been no meaningful measures in place to ensure that people stayed in quarantine.  

Another glaring admission from the ScotGov analysis is the impact of the schools coming back and university students returning to their studies and halls of residence - the latter being widely regarded as a complete disaster.

But while Scottish ministers have pulled out all the stops to get uni students tested (twice) to allow their safe return home for Christmas (having caused the problem in the first place), they  refused to put proper test and trace arrangements in place at airports.

In other words this borders business is a just a diversion, a smokescreen - the Covid equivalent of 'a big boy did it and ran away'.

  

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