Originally Posted by
davidjohnson6
Boris and Priti Patel are doing an absolutely terrible job at communicating the reasons for the strategy (politicians are meant to be good at talking to the voters) - but in terms of trying to reduce the number of cases per day, it's probably still the right thing to do. Ultimately it's all about retaining some sort of perception of the UK being a free society, while Following the Cummings episode, there is a need for somebody who is held in greater respect by the population (e.g. Chris Whitty) to explain more clearly why the foreign-travel quarantine is needed
Watching Vallance and Whitty alongside Boris when he announced the quarantine yesterday, I don’t think certainly Vallance, and probably Whitty believe there is much point to the blanket quarantining at this point in the UK cycle of the disease! It might catch a few people coming in, but that’s very small beer compared to the domestic community transmission level at present. It’s probably got more to do with regaining approval points in the next opinion poll from those who think it’s all being brought in by Johnny Foreigner.