Re: BIAFF 2020 RESULTS
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:30 pm
Today in "The Sunday Telegraph": "Two Weeks' Quarantine if Going to the UK". "The Daily Telegraph" is not my favourite English newspaper, but I noticed that big title in the Andrew Marr Show this morning. Is it something to worry about? I don't know. There are still 5 months left. I only fear for my trip to the beautiful Cotswolds in September. Time passes very quickly.
On the BBC the reporter said that the number of deaths in the UK is very high now. Mind, the figures are even higher in Belgium, but they also include the people who have died in care homes, even the ones who have not been attacked by the corona virus. It's naive to include people who have died of cancer, of a heart attack, etc..., isn't it?
I also wonder if there will be social distancing in October? And maybe we will be obliged to wear masks. A chat with Michael Slowe or the tall Scotsman Dave Watterson at a distance of 2 metres and wearing a mask… Imagine…! And can we have a drink at the bar then?
And there is an other problem: In July and August it will be forbidden to cross the French border. I always cross the Channel at Calais... In Belgium they have already started to encourage people to spend their holidays at one of our own seaside resorts or at an idyllic place in the Ardennes which is the French speaking part, or to go to one of our medieval cities like Bruges, Ghent or Antwerp, or to visit the cemeteries in Flanders' Fields . But as I already said: BIAFF is one and a half month later.
A good thing: Belgium, Holland and Germany have decided to make their measures more flexible. I will be able to have my hair cut from 18th May onwards. All shops will be open on 11th May... There will be rush to the pubs on 8th June. If we behave the lock down will be over in June, our prominent virologists and politicans have said. Only wearing masks will still be a must on buses, trams and trains. Anyway, we can already see some light at the end of the tunnel.
Let's pray for a succesful BIAFF in October!
On the BBC the reporter said that the number of deaths in the UK is very high now. Mind, the figures are even higher in Belgium, but they also include the people who have died in care homes, even the ones who have not been attacked by the corona virus. It's naive to include people who have died of cancer, of a heart attack, etc..., isn't it?
I also wonder if there will be social distancing in October? And maybe we will be obliged to wear masks. A chat with Michael Slowe or the tall Scotsman Dave Watterson at a distance of 2 metres and wearing a mask… Imagine…! And can we have a drink at the bar then?
And there is an other problem: In July and August it will be forbidden to cross the French border. I always cross the Channel at Calais... In Belgium they have already started to encourage people to spend their holidays at one of our own seaside resorts or at an idyllic place in the Ardennes which is the French speaking part, or to go to one of our medieval cities like Bruges, Ghent or Antwerp, or to visit the cemeteries in Flanders' Fields . But as I already said: BIAFF is one and a half month later.
A good thing: Belgium, Holland and Germany have decided to make their measures more flexible. I will be able to have my hair cut from 18th May onwards. All shops will be open on 11th May... There will be rush to the pubs on 8th June. If we behave the lock down will be over in June, our prominent virologists and politicans have said. Only wearing masks will still be a must on buses, trams and trains. Anyway, we can already see some light at the end of the tunnel.
Let's pray for a succesful BIAFF in October!