Originally Posted by
ATNotts
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.
Spot on. The Government has lost the plot. Think back to the early days of Covid-19 and of the folk arriving in the UK who were coached-off to an enforced quarantine. Contradictory "advice" now abounds. This newly proposed "quarantine" is a farce. The Police don't have the powers to enforce it and in some areas are more of a "farce" than a "force". Examples of how to
mean what you say can be found elsewhere. See how Madeira has enforced a genuine "quarantine" - as well as Guernsey where folk arriving are checked regularly at their given address to see if they are fulfilling the requirements. Breaches there will result in fines of
£10,000. In the UK it resembles a parking ticket. The fine is
£100 but reduced to
£50 if paid promptly. Which jurisdictions are likely to be respected?