Not doing quarantine properly.

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DH spoke to a friend earlier who arrived back from France at 4pm on Sat, so 12hrs after quarantine started.
Said friend and family are going to WFH, but are planning on daily trips to the park, a once weekly trip to the supermarket, and to meet up with family next week.
DF firmly believes their behaviour is within keeping of the quarantine rules.

I'm quite torn. On the one hand, it seems quite arbitrary. On the other hand, if everyone who is supposed to be quarantining does this then it probably increases risk. But then they may have been staying in areas where the infection rate was lower than here. I think that was the case for DH's friend.

Thoughts?

I'd say it starts as soon as you return to the country for example if you land back in the UK at midday on a Wednesday you need to quarantine until midday the following fortnight Wednesday after. That would be my interpretation anyway.

Quarantine starts when you get home
so AFTER taking public transport right the way across the country
or AFTER stopping at multiple motorway services on the way home