Quarantine check ups after holiday - how do they work?

[IAmTheWaiting]

Has anybody actually experienced follow up texts or calls since coming back off holiday and going into 14 days quarantine? Just wondering what to expect.

No idea about how it will be monitored. Bit od people dont do it then they'll be a spike in September and this will never end. Guess it comes down to trust.

I quarantined for 2 weeks last month when I came back from a non-exempt country and had no check ups.

I did the online form (coming back from Menorca recently). And I got a call two days after getting back to make sure I understood the quarantine rules

Thanks @Swampy123 so no scary interrogation they're basically just checking we understand and are conforming with what meant to be doing?

Yes

No check up here, but as I understand they will ring and ask your whereabouts, if they can't make contact with you, you might have a visit from the police to check you are where you said you would be. But me and friends all did 2 week quarantine and none of us were checked on. You should still do it though.

It's absolutely pathetic. There is no way in hell they can police this by simply relying on everyone obeying whatever that current days "rules" are.

The whole thing is a shitshow.

So if you are quarantining with your family and they call you do they ask to speak to all members of the family (including kids) to prove you are at home?

@myfriendflicka9 I think there would probably be all sorts of protection issues around them speaking to kids...teachers aren't even allowed to talk to their pupils on the phone. So reckon that's unlikely. Someone else may have firsthand experience though.

I’m on day 8 and no phone call so far.

I've just started my third quarantine session and have not had a phone call or text at all.

Has anyone had a personal visit? I just read that the department of health are doing random home checks?

There has been a massive ONE prosecution for breach of the quarantine rules. Nobody is really following up or checking. Who thought they would? A friend of mine reported, to his employer and the police, an individual who returned from France on Monday, went back to work on Tuesday and is travelling from one supermarket to another (contract cleaners for freezers) in a van with four others, including one person who had to return to work form shielding at the beginning of the month and has COPD. None of this guys workmates thought it was anything but hilarious that he wasn't in quarantine; and it is now Sunday and so far neither the employer nor the police have done a thing.

@myfriendflicka9 where did you read that? Day 5 here and so far nothing....

It was in this article: www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-52774854

Although this was written in May so perhaps speculation. I don’t like the idea of people turning up at my door like this? Fine if they have called me and I never pick up the phone, but to randomly show up is a bit creepy?

I returned from France last night on the Eurotunnel and got a call this morning to check I understood the rules and asked if I was self isolating.

Can someone please explain to me why the quarantine after travel rules are so incredibly strict compared to the first national lockdown, or local lockdowns? To not be allowed out of the house for 14 days, not even for exercise/a dog walk,seems extreme. Surely more people would comply if exercise was allowed.

Because its a convenient way for the government to "prove" they are doing something. The draconian nature of the rules compared with the full lockdown rules is ridiculous.

But if you put down a mobile phone number (lots of people don't have a home phone after all) surely they've no real idea of where you are when they speak to you 🤷🏻‍♀️ so it's all pretty pointless anyway.

Only know of one family who are having to quarantine- think they are now a few days into it. They've heard nothing.

We've just started the quarantine, having been in rural SW France. At Eurotunnel, they didn't even ask to scan our forms (which the online form said they would), I don't know if they're just automatically linked to our passports?

We live rurally in the UK too, I'm happy to avoid shops, but I can't really see too much harm in the odd walk/run where I'm unlikely to even see another person?

I definitely noticed they spent longer looking at our passports but they didn’t ask to see our forms at the eurotunnel...but possibly they can now flag if you haven’t done a form when they input your passport number?

We got asked to show our forms on our phone screens but they didn't actually look at them. But through submitting them online, they have all the details anyway so not really any need. It's just if you get asked to show you've done it and haven't you get a £100 fine so I think they're hoping the fear of that makes everyone submit online?

I know people who didn’t fill out the forms Or filled them out incorrectly and said they were prepared to risk the £100 fine if it meant they would avoid being monitored......and other people who flew to Ireland for a stopover to avoid quarantine...lots of people dodging quarantine. Bit annoying for those that follow the rules.

No. No follow up. There was never the manpower to do so. The whole quarantine thing was just a visual PR exercise to look like the government is being proactive. Stupid AF.

@Planetzog

Can someone please explain to me why the quarantine after travel rules are so incredibly strict compared to the first national lockdown, or local lockdowns? To not be allowed out of the house for 14 days, not even for exercise/a dog walk,seems extreme. Surely more people would comply if exercise was allowed.

To appear to be punishing people who dared to go abroad.