Fury at two-track plan for International Baccalaureate assessment

I am an IB student who was forced into distance due to quarantine since last march. We spent basically half of our 2 year programme with like this, and the quality of the education and the progress we could make during this time is significantly worse than just "suboptimal". Incidentally, my country plans to lift quarantine restrictions for students for the April-May period for everyone to be able to take their exams. But all these decisionmakers apparently spent their time thinking too much about whether they could, instead of whether they should. Any student who spent over half a year in quarantine, especially during their last year, is *not* suited to take the exams, simply due to circumstances outside their control, and it is unfair for them to be punished for this with the dual assessment.

For many international boarding students, travelling to their school is essentially impossible nowadays. We have had 2 positive COVID cases in our family and for the last 3 months their PCR tests repeatedly turned out positive (!) - no chance to ever escape a quarantine in the UK! Especially the UK has imposed drastic fines for e.g. providing inaccurate information about your recent travel history. Simple mistakes such as typos in the complicated forms which are mandatory to fill out can get you in jail for 10 years (!). In such circumstances, the result of any exams would be based purely on coincidence and factors such as "were you affected by a lock-down", "are you able to travel", "in which country is your school located", "how long did you have to quarantine for", "how well has the student been able to cope with the massive uncertainty". All of these factors have nothing to do with learning ability and academic performance. In other words: Cancelling the M21 exams is the ONLY sensible option. We have no idea what the IBO and Ofqual need to think about, and why they keep especially UK IB students in uncertainty over months.