and the requirement to self—isolate if you come into contact with someone with covid. however i do feel like we are constantly having these hopes dangled in front of us, then they are ——. i think of the great quote from john cleese, " i can deal with the despair, it's the hope i can't bear." i think a lot of people will be thinking, please don't promise that we can go to a certain country, then two weeks later, do ewald fast. that's happened with portugaljust happened with portugal just recently. happened with portugaljust recently. i really think if the government is going to make this commitment, it must stick by it. unfortunately we have a catalogue of errors over the past few months which don't give optimism. why have the borders remained open so long after experts warned people coming from india were bringing a new variant into the country which has