Amber delta beta control our lives

Our way of life, where we go, what we can do and can't do, at least here in the UK, is now based on these three words: amber under the traffic light system for overseas travel, delta, the Indian variant of Covid-19, and beta, the South African variant. The Covid rules are changing almost every week, sometimes it's good news and then the good news is snatched away. France being categorised as amber plus, forcing British holidaymkaers returning to UK to go into isolation even if they are double-jabbed has been a farce. An expensive farce because of the added obligation to have tests on returning. Hundreds of pounds have been added to people's holidays. Now there is talk of Spain being put on the amber plus list as well, and maybe Greece, too. All because of beta or delta. Meanwhile infections having gone down every day for seven days in UK are now rising again. Is this because too many people have still not been jabbed? The US is looking to Britain as the success story in the vaccination story and it's true, more than 80 per cent of the eligible population have been jabbed, so what is going wrong now? Holiday planning is impossible because no one knows what the government and its scientific experts are going to decide from day to day. There are still too many government advisers predicting an apocalypse despite the vaccination success. How can this be right? One of these days, hopefully in the very near future, we won't have to wake up each day and wonder what the hell beta and delta are up to.