In the pandemic, air travel is a luxury, not a necessity

Re Time for a cautious return to air travel, Opinion, Aug. 13

Jerry Dias asserts that 14-day quarantines “make no sense” in the case of travel to other countries “that have the virus under control.”

The challenge to this approach is safe identification of those countries. If we have learned anything about this virus, it is that it is “under control” only until it isn’t. In the time of COVID-19, international air travel is, more than ever, a luxury.

David Wentzell, Milton