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.
But it isn't a standard approach to quarantine as that would entail testing arrivals and isolating them in government allocated hotels as Greece is doing. It also isn't enforceable as ones trip to buy a sandwhich or a tin of cat food and then taking a perfectly legal diversion to a friends BBQ or the pub on the way back illustrates. Which also doesn't look like self-isolation either. If you also look at how many categories of worker (and who is going to verify them) are exempt it probably includes about 30% of the population in which case what's the point?
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...k-border-rules
This law requires only voluntary compliance and is an unenforceable farce in my opinion.