AIBU to suspect that quarantine is not working?

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I have spoken to a fair number of people who have flown into the UK since quarantine was enforced on 8th June and not one of them has stayed at home for 14 days, or even 1 day. Apparently incoming travellers are given a form asking them to please stay home for 14 days and telling them they might get a call on their mobile from the UK border force. So all the people I have spoken to have said they haven't bothered. Does anyone know anyone who has quarantined? As a former journalist, I think there's potentially a story in this!

You know a lot of absolute twats then...

Another piss poor, half hearted and failed attempt at trying to contain this, by an already laughing stock of a country. I’m really not surprised OP.

Did anyone actually expect it to work?

Are you really suprised ? No story really. All over social media people were flouting the rules and posting about it. Still nobody gave a damn.

Oh it’s all just bollocks now isn’t it.
We need to say stuff the government and look after ourselves. Do what’s right for our neighbour.

We’ve got a track and trace system that’s a joke. With the added difficulty of the government not paying people when your told to isolate for 14 days after contact.

Winter and cold symptoms are going to be fun.

What do you want to happen, OP? People to be welded into their homes? Forced to stay in hotels with guards? They tried that in Australia, and even that didn't work.

Of course this was never going to work. Best let Priti Patel know and she can "deal" with it.

It was always bilge because the Quarantine rules
allow travelling from the airport to your home by public transport
and going out daily to by food

Of course it hasn't worked. Nobody should be surprised by that.

You can't let tourists and other travellers in and simply advise them to quarantine without actually making it happen or having any means at all of enforcing it. It simply won't work.

It was obviously bs from the start. Did you expect it to be enforced somehow? If so how?

We have a national paranoia about the State paying any attention to anything to do with our national borders. We’re better at performing liberalism in completely irrational ways than we are at actually doing liberalism (see the Windrush fiasco).

That’s what will be behind this. I’m surprised we haven’t yet abolished animal quarantine in a grand virtue signalling gesture.

It was always going to be just a paper exercise to appease the public.

In countries like China, the State can get away with locking new arrivals into the country into a facility for a period of quarantine. Just not something that could happen here and I personally dont want to live in that kind of country anyway.

All we could do is appeal to people's better natures or ban international travel full stop.

It was never going to work.

I don't know why anyone thought it would.

@feelingverylazytoday That's what some countries are doing. In Hong Kong you are given a bracelet that monitors you via GPS. If you leave your house you are arrested. It works.

[quote Quaversplease]@feelingverylazytoday That's what some countries are doing. In Hong Kong you are given a bracelet that monitors you via GPS. If you leave your house you are arrested. It works.[/quote]
So treat people like criminals then?

@feelingverylazytoday No. Allow people to enter the country under certain conditions and make sure they stick to them.

Hong Kong has already gone through SARS and they know how to control pandemics. Which is why they have had less than 1 death per 1M population in a country that is very overcrowded.

Nope. It's not working. It's not controlled in any way.
Added to that, anyone flying in is likely to have to a) get home b) get food.
Places requiring quarantine in a controlled environment, with food supplied, are the only ways quarantine is likely to be controlled - and suggestions from Melbourne are that even this isnt totally secure.