Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
The rules around quarantine look very similar to those previously used for self-isolation etc - i.e. go home and stay there apart from in these exceptional circumstances, with the addition of the possibility of checking. Whether you agree with it or not, it is a standard approach.
It's a "standard UK approach". Were it to be done properly, every arrival in UK would have, and should have been since mid March housed in accommodation provided by the government, and serviced by them so there would be no requirement to leave the confines of the accommodation. That could have been achieved by HMG requisitioning hotels and using the hotel staff to provide the service. That way the quarantine could be meaningful, otherwise it's exactly, as you say, the same as lockdown, essentially comply unless you want / need to break it - more holes than the proverbial Swiss cheese, and surely something that any government official could find their way around, supposing, just for example they felt they needed an eye test!
If the whole thing had been done properly, by now we'd be looking at people in the travel and tourism sectors going back to work in the next week or so, rather than hoards likely headed for the dole queue and bankruptcy courts as seems far more likely.