The Cretan tourism season usually starts at the end of March and as prospective visitors have already found, flights and package holidays have been cancelled although tour companies and airlines are offering to change holiday dates at no extra charge.
Tryin to call a holiday company, at least in the UK, means a wait of hours on the end of the phone for many.
The Greek lockdown which started in March has been extended twice and it is expected that restrictions will start to ease at the beginning of May.
At the Gay Crete Blog we are somewhat skeptical with some of the statistics being produced, especially in the UK, which seem to us to be rather inaccurate, indeed we have taken the ONS in the UK to task because the number of people that have died of specific causes exceeds the total number of people that have died.
Much of what is happening seems to be based on paranoia and fear rather then sound scientific facts, particularly we are concerned with the accuracy of the pcr tests being used because as any gay man who has had one of these to check for HIV will know, they are notoriously inaccurate and if you have one done you are actually told that!
(As far as we can work out the ban on all flights within the EU came from the European Air Safety Agency, an unelected body that is responsible for the safety of aircraft and airports. It seem they have now taken it upon themselves to be responsible for the health of passengers as well.... Creeping bureaucracy again?)
