Yes the borders were not shut in the UK until far too late either. Yet we could see what was happening in mainland Europe, why we didn't act is beyond me. I read much of the 1st wave came via the ski resorts (they sampled cases to know this).

Our borders are open for non essential travel again from today, this time we have requirements of a negative full test (they are expensive!) and vaccine certificate proof and proof of quarantine arrangements. Already there are counterfeiters and it's going to take border staff so much longer to examine these documents. I pity them.

I don't even know if we're going to do official vaccine proof in the UK, I downloaded the NHS (public health) app and sure enough it's in my records, it would be easy enough to spoof.