France transit/quarantine requirements are unfair

[Prochainesortie]

I know 5 families currently in relatively Covid safe European families (Eg Germany, Poland etc) visiting their own families who will now have to quarantine due to transiting France for a few hours and using the Eurotunnel. They won’t stay the night in France just refuel once due to driving distances, they won’t exit the car in the eurotunnel. 1 is my cleaner and she is panicking about no income on return. She doesn’t have online shopping and her children won’t be allowed out of her small flat to exercise for 14 days! The only reason she drove was to be safer and avoid airports! I think the U.K. government is unreasonable given France is such a transit country. More notice should have been given and they need to relax the transit requirements urgently. I agree that spending the night in France might increase the risk but 1-2 refuel/stop should be allowed as long as masks/sanitiser etc are used. My cleaner is driving in a big car with another family, I told her to look into driving through Germany for longer/carrying some fuel if possible. Hopefully she will find a way to avoid the quarantine legally by not having to stop.

[Lweji]

Why does the UK not test like any other intelligent country?

Actually, there's nothing intelligent about testing alone.
You can test negative coming out of your holidays, but become infectious a few days later. Or pick up the virus on the plane.

I'm not a fan of quarantine either, though.

If there's community transmission in the country, a few imported cases from holidays won't make much difference.

A country that really wants to keep the virus at bay will have quarantine and testing at the end.
But the UK isn't such a case because the virus is in circulation. That would be NZ for example. Or China, even.