Killjoys or Just Cautious?

The UK is scheduled to reinstate International travel for leisure, on the 17th of May. The government hope to stop (or at least limit?) people returning from holiday with a 'worrying variant' of the Sars-CoV-2 virus by adopting a 'traffic light' system. This places countries into 'green' (safe?), 'amber' (dodgy?) and 'red' (dangerous and banned) categories. People returning from a 'green' category location, do not have to quarantine. Allocations to a category depends on issues like the known presence of Covid variants, levels of infection, vaccination levels etc. There might be a week's notice if a country has to be moved from one category to another. A cross-party group of Members of Parliament (MPs) think, however, the taking of a foreign holiday this year is ill-advised and should be discouraged (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/03/holidays-abroad-should-be-discouraged-to-stop-covid-third-wave-say-mps ). This particular group of MPs think the danger of igniting a third UK wave of Covid-19 infections is currently too great. I suspect they will be labelled 'killjoys'. Many members of the general public seem intent of taking their 'rightful' foreign holidays. Directors of airlines, travel agency representatives and people whose livelihoods depend of foreign tourists, are all loudly advocating the 'return' of the foreign holiday. There are also other UK MPs, pushing for post-pandemic freedoms. Large sections of the media are also strongly supportive of 'fun and frolics in the sand'. The cross-party group of MPs, however, do make a serious point. Regulating safe foreign travel and holiday accommodation isn't going to be easy. Tracking local changes in infection rates and the presence/absence of worrying Covid-19 variants, is also worryingly poor in some holiday locations. Tourists also tend to take more chances when on holiday. A foreign holiday is consequently currently a gamble. It's one, however, in which the risks are not limited to the tourist.