@Teateaandmoretea
Planes may not be tubes of death but corona is more likely to be caught in one than in a car. I also think that all this ‘the UK’s worse than everywhere else’ isn’t helpful for optimistic thought. We are testing a lot and literally searching for deaths to attribute to it. A lot of covid originally came from ski resorts, where it was clearly covered up. It’s very trusting to assume that other countries counting is accurate.
Personally I wouldn’t go abroad this year, there is the risk of someone getting a temperature or cough and then the stress of not being allowed to travel back/ having to isolate in a hotel room/ navigate testing systems abroad. I’d rather just be able to get in the car and go straight home.
^^ This.
We have no plans at present and hadn't made any for the summer, however we probably would have taken the tent down to Cornwall, but all this kicked off before booking. We are flexible and will probably do something as the conditions change.
We had the notion of going to the Canaries at Easter but were tardy in making arrangements. We had been keeping an eye on Wuhan all along, and the early outbreak in Tenerife beat us to it... so we booked a cottage in Wales instead 
We have our money back as they made an early decision to shield.
If I have made myself a reputation as a rabid, disease vector Anti-Dementor, murdering teachers with my desire to have my children educated as real-normal, and panting on runs, sitting on benches, gate crashing playgrounds and cocking minor snooks at the roolz, it would be ironic.
The reality is we were cautious early on. We made good use of Costco in Feb/ early March and had no need to panic buy by the time reality dawned on the masses. We were going to go to London for a few days at Feb half term, but went to Manchester instead as the London Underground seemed like a potentially high risk place with poor ventilation, crowds and high national and international mobility. If the virus was going to enter the country undetected, London was statistically the highest risk. News on Italy broke a few days later. DH did have an event down there late Feb, but avoided public transport and walked a few miles instead. DH started working from home about 10 days early and the office was emptied several days before lockdown.
We were aware of the potential early on and took some measured adaptions to reduce potential exposure. Just not the more paranoid wiping down your shopping, playing chicken with the traffic to keep a rigourous 2m away type approach. Risks change. I was much higher risk going into town (an early top 5 hotspot) on 16th March to prematurely buy birthday birthday presents ahead of any potential lockdown.
It's the potential to be quarentined in a hotel room that puts me off. Plus reliability of travel arrangements as a family (as a couple we were more flexible). Also we're not spend a holiday in a resort on a beach/ bar/ restaurant types. We want to get out exploring and be flexible and I'm not convinced that we'll get a holiday we want out of it. I don't think the closed environments of planes are a great place to be. We are unlikely to visit MiL/ ILs this year as MiL is elderly at the niggling ailments stage and the small risk of unknowingly picking it up while travelling and passing it on isn't worthwhile.
But it's good that the option is there for people who are comfortable with the arrangements on offer. Tourism is such an essential part of the economy.