@Mark116
Leave them at it - you're wasting your time. Suits them better to look down their noses at everyone else from their sanitised, disinfected, righteous ivory towers, and convince themselves that the rest of us are just greedy, irresponsible, heartless b******s, rather than face the facts that maybe - just maybe -their skewed perspectives on this issue are driven entirely by their own excessive fears and anxieties, rather than any fair, rational, level-headed thought processes. (There's taking sensible, responsible precautions... and then there's outright paranoia). No matter how many times we try to explain our position to them, it's clear that their care and compassion lies with the guests, rather than their fellow hosts, who they now obviously judge as being the scum of the earth, rather than ordinary people just fighting to save their homes and their livelihoods, and take care of their families.
Why anyone should feel it's fair or right that on a 2300 euro booking, for example, the host should take the full hit, rather than ten young lads on a beano for St Patrick's week losing a mere 115 each (which wouldn't even cover a single night on the beer for them in that location), and the host losing 1150, is utterly beyond my comprehension. And for the life of me, I can't fathom why any right-thinking person would support the refund of a full 2800 euro booking for 8 high-ranking professionals, to the multi-million euro multi-national company that employs them, rather than the burden being shared 50/50 with the host, so they would have at least some income to meet their expenses and feed their family.
Equally dumbfounding (and deeply saddening) to me is how - or why - anyone with even the slightest sense of justice, decency or equality would support an abusive, exploitative policy being immorally and illegally deployed against their peers, solely for the financial, operational and PR benefits of an unethical and duplicitous multi-billion dollar global corporation. Or why they would rather castigate others being beaten down and robbed blind by an unlawful policy, than recognise the rank injustices of one person being forced to assume 100% of the risk and responsibility for the travel disruptions of possibly 100- 200 or more complete strangers, over a period of many months, who have willfully neglected to put in place any measures whatsoever to mitigate for their own risks and responsibilities. (And despite the wholly inaccurate and disingenuous claims that no such insurance exists, plenty of insurance companies offer ample CFAR cover to protect against all eventualities, should one choose to apportion a small fraction of their entire trip budget to purchase it) One day, in the not too distant future, the whole picture will become crystal clear, and it will be the self-serving apologists and cheerleaders who supported these abuses, who'll be the ones feeling the shame and embarrassment then.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.