Sums it up perfectly!Dunners wrote: ↑Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:40 am It's really not that straightforward. The quarantine 'policy' is, quite frankly, a load of bollox and I really do not blame anyone for ignoring it. Think about it for a moment:
1. You are being asked to fill out a travel declaration form. However, you are entitled to arrive without having done so and (according to reports from travellers arriving in the UK) nobody actually checks. Seriously, look it up.
2. If you were to properly quarantine, you would need to be collected as you disembark from your flight and taken to a special detention centre or hotel. This is what happens in countries where they have a proper quarantine policy.
3. Instead, in the UK, you can mingle about in the airport before getting on the tube or any other form of public transport as you head off to your home. Once there, sure, you are meant to quarantine for 14 days. But who is going to actually enforce that? Many UK police forces have already publicly stated that they will not be enforcing government policies, such as this and the wearing of face masks on shops.
4. Quarantine is a policy that this government have introduced as a half-arsed measure, purely to make them look good while it does everything it can to deflect from the way they handled the crisis in care homes. That is the real scandal.
5. Quarantine - when managed effectively (see point 2 above) - at least makes some sense as a strategy. Sure, some will agree or disagree with it, but there's at least logic to it. There's zero logic to this. Which means we're being played.
6. Quite how we're being played is anyone's guess. It may just be about deflection of the care home disaster. It may be so that, when there's a future enquiry, the government can point to this decision and say, "oh, but look how decisive we were." Or it may be that, as we have our foot on Spain throat, we're using this as part of some behind the scenes negotiation for trade post-Brexit. But whatever it is, it is not about quarantine or your health.
And while this pandemic is causing major destruction to jobs, businesses, lives - what is Johnson's latest government initiative?
LOSE WEIGHT.
It's all about his ego and photo opportunities where he can talk about himself and claim success ...
