nonthaburi

I try to forget about it every day. 😂

nonthaburi

I don't know why that is a special case, and I can only imagine someone is connected. But according to Sky news there are around 50,000 Brits stranded around the world right now, and zero planes, zero help from British embassies around the world apart from that one plane to Peru

You are not a tourist in trouble, you have a house, and a job, and money. You are right at the back of the queue.

Millhouse

And half bottles of nail varnish, as they only need to paint one hand.

csdf

https://www.thenational.ae/uae/uae-t...break-1.997473

scrubbedexpat141

UAE Arrests 64 for breaking self quarantine

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Millhouse

Great move from the Government. Quarantine is quarantine.

scrubbedexpat141

Absolutely, knowing you got the germ and not caring about who you infect could end up killing someone.

csdf

In Italy there were news articles saying that deliberate breaking of quarantine causing infection was being classified as attempted murder.

FriendlyExpat

BA / Easyjet / Ryanair - even Flybe! and many other airlines have a load of planes sitting on tarmac rusting away and they're desperately in need of funds. The British Government should use some of the helicopter cash to pay them to fly people home. I really am amazed that they aren't doing this and it speaks to the lack of compassion / common sense of the current British government, and also the huge embassy cutbacks that were deployed a few years ago with predictable lack of capacity for unexpected situations like this.

There are a lot of people stuck in Saudi (and all over the world) and some of them will be in really serious trouble, perhaps even sleeping homeless / not having access to food. Many travelers have a limited budget and will have used it up. You should just get them all home ASAP in my view. Plenty of people out there crying for help, and if Germany and even Bangladesh can organise rescue planes, why can't we??

https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/hea...k-home-2516479
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...us-cuts-routes

scrubbedexpat141

I actually typed manslaughter in my post above yours but didn't want to be accused of overreacting

Problem is, what do you do with them for 14 days? A kind of nice 'prison' to quarantine them in? Was there enough time to get back with most countries giving notice of border closures? If you didn't heed that advice should you be a priority over helping those at home?
I don't disagree that people should be helped but there was a lot of warning over this. There's a lot of people stuck in a lot of places, how do they prioritise?
It's a shitty situation but perhaps local Embassy's could be useful in supporting people (they're typically not that helpful I understand though...)

csdf

Exactly. We cancelled our Easter travel plans back in early February and we have no specific privileged information that wasn't available to the whole world. Anyone who deliberately chose to travel abroad after mid-February was really doing their best to ignore the obvious. The only people I can have some sympathy with are those on long-term gap-style trips who have been abroad for months.

scrubbedexpat141

True. If that was the case though, you still had some options. Someone could have helped if you didn't have the funds etc.
Mother came here en route to Thailand and I bullied her home, that was only a week ago she left but I was still nervous she was cutting it fine. Unfortunately, the UK and other countries trying to stay open for longer meant timing was tight and whoever blinked first and cancelled was the losing party in a lot of this. Still, better to be home, safe and comfortable than stuck elsewhere.

FriendlyExpat

The lack of sympathy would be cold comfort to someone who is right now trapped in a life threatening situation somewhere overseas, even if they brought it upon themselves.

scrubbedexpat141

When was the last time you went out?

For me it was last Tuesday, first thing for a 25min walk/jog. Not left the apartment since. A little stir crazy at the weekend, but more irritable than anything else, I combated this with shit films, a nap and some decluttering (7 bags of shit down the chute, woo!).

co durham boy

Everyday to work