To report someone returning from Spain

[Archie1989]

A friend of my partner has said he has no intention of isolating on his return from Spain. Should I anonymously report them? My mum was on the shielding list and it’s making me quite angry. People who went abroad would know the risks during all of this....and then to refuse to isolate shows such arrogance and disregard for others.

I don’t know this person well and I don’t want to make my partner feel stuck in the middle.

@Applepieco yeah I do understand that but wouldn't that also apply to being around someone in say a pub or workplace with covid? I'm honestly not being goady I just don't understand why if you get contacted through contact tracing you only have to isolate until you have a negative test result, but if you've been abroad you have to quarantine for 14 days. Or have I got it wrong about the contact tracing? Is that 14 days too?

I think I’d want them to just get a warning from the COVID police (whoever they are) or something!

COVID Police? This in itself says it all.

The COVID police should have a special line for all the MN reporters.

Yes yes yes report them. Far too many people have lost their lives in this awful pandemic. People need to take this seriously. Who you report them to I have no idea but maybe start with your local council or police?

It's great that you have new rules to get all frothed up about. I was worried how the covid stasi would cope once lockdown lifted but there are mask rules to enforce, and now quarantine rules. Hurrah. Have fun with your reporting. I suggest you wait til they have actually broken the rules though. Minor detail I'm sure.

So they went abroad in good faith so they went abroad in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, knowing full well that isolation measures may start at any moment. Pretending it is a surprise is the opposite of good faith - they just hoped it wouldn't happen.

Don’t know who you’d report them to

Keep away from them. Do what you can to protect yourself and your family. You can’t control others unfortunately.

good to see the neighbourhood Stasi out in curve again

@MaxNormal

You know that Spain is huge and that most areas of Spain still have really low instances of infection, right?

You can seriously see how the Stasi flourished.

Exactly. The rise in cases in Spain is in a few specific areas. It's like another country insisting on quarantining someone from Lands End because of Leicester's stats.

Yes, they should quarantine, and I would - but I wouldn't be reporting them because unless they'd been in Spain's equivalent of Leicester, they're highly unlikely to get and pass on the virus.

So they won't take 2 weeks off most likely because of work and the cost it'll have on their household but spreading it around so others have to take 2 weeks off and it costs their households is fine?

Or worse still it could cost ppl their lives. Report them in an instant.

So they went abroad in good faith, got screwed by the rule change and now you want to grass them? Just mind your own business.
For goodness sake it’s not high school and they are smoking behind the bike sheds!
The quarantine rules are to save people’s lives. How would you feel if your relative died and it was later tracked back to being in contact with someone who had return from Spain.
@MaxNormal

what a sad life you lead OP - this person is not risking anyone anymore then the thousands in this country who are not socially distancing. the government wanted us to get back to normal - they dont really care if individuals get ill. and the fines? well that's just another way to make money isnt it. easy to see how the nazis came to power and brain washed so many.

wake up

Safer in Spain than here. Gov has just introduced quarantine to make it look as if it gives a toss. Don't report them unless you're willing to report anyone you know who has been on a plane.

what do they do for a job?

@doodleygirl

Who would you report to and what do you think will happen?

You report to the police, as we've been told to all the way through.

Yes please do report them OP. It doesn't matter weather people think it's fair or not - there are plenty of rules I might not agree with, but it's part of living in a functioning society. And for godsake it's to keep us all safe and alive. How hard is that to understand.

@MaxNormal - that's the spirit, that's exactly how we'll get rid of the virus. Idiot.

Grass

You really think it’ll make you feel better?

Very odd.

Try reporting a non serious crime? its an online form which will be actioned within 72 hours and may or may not result in any further action, you'll be waiting an awful long time if you ring 101 and unless a more serious crime is being committed, they won't action it.

The Police haven't the means to go around making sure people isolate or indeed wear a mask in their local Tesco.

If going abroad was so terrible, why are we allowed to do it? or why is someone who is quarantining still allowed to go shopping (if no one else can do it) and they can even go abroad again.

Did this person tell you or did he tell your partner who then told you? Have you told your partner what you plan to do? What did they say? If they are happy for you to report, fair enough, but I know if I told my DH something that someone else told me and he then went and reported them for something like you are talking about, I would be furious.

Logically you would be reporting for the sake of it. Someone who arrived at the airport at 11.30pm on Saturday has no less risk that someone who went on the same holiday to the same places and was on the next plane that landed at 0.30am on Sunday.

The risk of either person having Covid would be broadly the same - are you worried about the first person going to work?

Yes, we have to stick to the rules but your reason for reporting isn't based on any kind of risk judgement.

Haven’t spain got like 7 deaths a week compared to our 59 a day last week?

Plus, who would you report to?

The quarantine rules are to save people’s lives.

That's a laugh. Drippy boy and Co. have done it to stop the NHS being screwed again. Not to save the lives of us, which in their eyes are "the great unwashed".

When are people going to realise that twat at the helm and his little yes men aren't doing it to save anyone's life.

Christ we've had 4 months to get our heads around that one.

@PhilCornwall1 say it louder for the people at the back 🙌🙌