In reply to mick taylor:
> So a MIQ system ‘may’ be adequate for current levels but doubt anything could cope with even a moderate increase. Simply too much human error and human duckwittery.
Yes, I can’t see it scaling well, but at this rate I can’t see foreign travel going up much this year; lessons learnt from what kicked off cases after the summer, new strains heading for vaccine evasion, the UK rife with a more transmissible variant that has a change we know is share with vaccine evading variants - bringing new such ones closer.
I was thinking more about risk reduction and travel. MIQ before flying would prevent transmission events on the planes. This would perhaps eliminate the most obvious cause of brand-new infections in MIQ, which are the ones most likely to walk out of the doors. It does however put the quarantine facilities under the control of a different nation to the one who is accepting risk in taking the travellers in.
I can see a niche business model in building an MIQ resort with individual houses and swimming pools, and high quality catering service to the residents - combine your MIQ period with your Holliday. A house in the sun with a pool, a wide catering menu and high speed internet and big TVs. I can see some people being prepared to pay through the nose for that... Probably build it somewhere like Dubai.
Post edited at 10:34