Originally Posted by
Curious Pax
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.
Vallance pretty much distanced himself and SAGE from it when asked!