@mrex: I know and thanks for trying to help. We'll get to that point. Atm in our reasonable vicinity there are no real options and I am an EU citizen, can get P. vacc* easily there so the immediate need is not present.
But I'm in a good situation that I can afford to travel to home country as I also need to do so from time to time anyway, as I work for a bank there. special circumstances. It was more a small musing about those who are not in any spec. circumstances.
What I've seen -regardless of covid- in the past decade in the UK is that the systems work ~98% of the time, but if you are in the 2% that is non-conform to the processes/standards/... then it can be quite difficult to get things done. Tbf: in HU it is even worse, and I would bet my non existent hat that it's no better anywhere else. So just an observation really. I expected -for some reason- UK to be different. It is the home of bureaucracy