I totally support the no foreign holidays thing this summer. It's not worth trading normal life for.
But I've seen so many heart breaking posts on here about people desperate to see their families abroad. People emigrate with the understanding that we are never trapped in one country. One of my colleagues is French. Her twin sister is very ill, quite likely terminal within a year or so. France is so close. Yet might as well be on the other side of the world right now.
If it was the same for everyone, it maybe wouldn't seem so bad. But I know an 18 year old off to Costa Rica for 2 months next week. And another 18 year old who went to Mexico in January for 6 months. Permitted as it's volunteer work and 'education' but they're going to have the time of their lives. While others don't get to see their elderly parents again.
And it seems to be different for the rich too. I work in a private school and several of our children are still distance learning because they are in India, Nigeria, South Africa and elsewhere. Have been since Jan or early Feb. There must have been a reason I imagine - deaths or serious illness in families, I guess. But these are families who could afford the isolations and the time off work.
I know the world isn't equal and fair, of course. But this just seems so hard. Could there not be a general ban on holidays but family visits allowed with strictly enforced home isolation and/or testing?