Covid19 Part XIX-25,802 in ROI (1,753 deaths) 5,859 in NI (556 deaths) (21/07)Read OP

What I don't get about the our being open to US tourists, is that the US remains completely closed to Irish tourists and visitors, with very limited exceptions.

Why did we not make that reciprocal?

Are we afraid of American reactions or something? It's bizarre.

I mean here we are with the lowest COVID-19 growth rate in Europe. We've put huge effort into getting here. We've cost ourselves billions upon billions, and prevented loss of further billions by so doing, yet we've tourists from potentially highly infectious parts of the US, and who could well have quite bonkers attitudes to seeing this as entirely political, just wandering around in Killarney or wherever.

What's the point of what we just did for the last few months if we can't keep the place safe. It just makes absolutely no sense to me.

Being open to countries with similar / lower levels of risk seems pragmatic, but being open to places that have not only had very high levels of transmission, but have horrendous lack of direction and political issues around the topic seems just insane.

We should be following the Schengen area guidelines at the very least.

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Tends to approach 1 as cases decrease. Clusters in the last few days add to that too.

The R0 increases as the cases decrease?

How does that work?