Refunds, changes and unclearity about passengers rights, and airlines fulfliment of same, in uncertain times

Airlines that normally do not allow changes or give refunds should draw a line in the sand and say bookings after such and such a date will be to the rules unless travel advice changes and we can no longer fly you.
For tose more service minded airlines who always used to issue refunds for a number of reasons, it would help on passenger confidence that historic refunds were actually issued and one could see a current timeline for waiting time for refunds of potential new bookings. If one changes once mind or travel advice changes. Few will commit to booking new flights if they are still awaiting refund of old bookings. And even less so if they think new purchases will just end up with no actual flying and their money gone into an uncertain black hole. Who would book today with an airline pleading the poor mouth to governments in the news every day, and risk being left with just an usecured worthless voucher.

It should also be made clear to all passengers that government mandated penalties on airlines through fees for delays and similar, like EU261 claims, are suspended fot as long as the pandemic is still active. The practizing of this is way to unclear by both governments and other regulatory bodies.