First and foremost, primary responsibility rests with this shitshow that we have as a government. Apart from the vaccine rollout, Boris has fumbled every single hard pass from this virus.
But back in April there were reports of people paying a fortune to fly to the U.K. early to avoid the red list, or via countries not on the red list to avoid quarantine other than at home.
Now just a couple of weeks later, I’m looking at the news of the new variant spreading rapidly, in no small part because some people insisted on travelling around the world in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic and it’s making me feel 😡.
I think I’m just feeling hopeless and very isolated because I haven’t seen my family or many of my friends or colleagues or been anywhere in over a year, I’ve missed funerals of close family friends (two from covid), and now just as it seemed we were reaching a stage where it could be managed, there’s another curveball variant.
AIBU to think that if you travelled and came home in a way by which you deliberately tried to avoid enforced quarantine, you should look at the stats and feel very guilty indeed?
Or is home quarantining as efficient, or should the government be doing more, eg covering the costs of quarantine just to ensure that people actually do it?
Looking forward to hearing what others think!