Isle of Man's reaction

[dogsdinnerlady]

Look what's happening on the IoM.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-52286369

What's your problem with their reaction?

I never said I had a problem, just interesting.

They have declared a state of emergency and gone into full lockdown, rather like New Zealand. The border will remain closed for at least the next month

www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=55160&headline=More%20of%20us%20tested%20than%20anywhere%20in%20UK&sectionIs=NEWS&searchyear=2020
They are also testing at a much greater rate than us.

Plus they have worked out how to run a virtual government. They even had voting buttons in the House of Keys before this all started, they are way ahead of us.
Sometimes we lose sight of how backward the UK is.

They didn’t start testing for quite some time though. A friend who lives there almost certainly had it, as did his wife and dd, after a trip to London. They were refused testing because they hadn’t been to Italy or China. This was in early March when the IoM were still saying there were no confirmed cases. Glad they’ve now done something about it!

Sometimes we lose sight of how backward the UK is

That’s not really fair. It’s much easier to implement measures like the IOM have due to their population/area to cover.

No comment on these cases, but the Isle of Man can be very quick to imprison people for minor offences like petty theft and once people are 'in the system' it can be detrimental to the rest of their life and to the rest of society, because putting people in prison often just ends up with them learning to be a more prolific criminal because it puts them in close contact with other criminals, and their influence rubs off on them.

But seeing as women in the Isle of Man have only had access to legal abortion for less than a year, I wouldn't be holding them up as an example of a progressive society.

The Isle of Man's prison is also under capacity, so there's space available. If the UK started imprisoning everyone who broke lockdown rules, it would overburden our already overcrowded under-resourced prisons.

Flight tracker has a nice private looking plane flying from Geneva looking like it was heading to IOM. Wonder if they can get in the closed borders, looked a very expensive private plane.

OP, I’ve just read the reasons why the people were jailed. A man showing symptoms was told to be tested, and instead he went to visit his grandfather and walk around for 2-3 hours spreading it to everyone he passed in the street? I think that one is fair enough.

@BarbaraofSeville that really is shocking and I am sorry I didn’t know about this before.