[quote Maryann1975]@Bluebell9 when you say life is back to how it was before, do you mean no masks, no social distancing, schools back as normal etc? I’d happily take the risk of jail for not quarantining probably to get back to that way of life! I’m the kind of person who follows the rules and does what I’m meant to, if you don’t want to do that, you are not helping the problem. The consequence for being part of the problem is jail. Presumably that was written down somewhere, the courts didn’t just make it up? And everyone knew the rules when they arrived at the island? Tough luck to them, I reckon. I hope the IOM gets to keep its covid free status.[/quote]
Can't speak for the IOM, but in Guernsey the schools went back full time, in full at the start/middle of June.
As for 'with so many people not following the rules, what's the point', I suspect people would stop taking the piss with the rules if there were consequences for not following them.
Over here, in the UK, the government has actively undermined it's own rules by undermining the police and ignoring the rules themselves. Most people have been following the rules but there has been a complete failure to either find those people that aren't and to deal with them when they do.
And as most teachers will tell you, the behaviour you let go is the standard you set.