Quarantine ?3 Jun 2020 05:17
Inan in reply to yours earlier . . . "Critics have said the policy should have been adopted at the start of the outbreak. Prof Neil Ferguson, the Imperial College modeller whose predictions for the death toll convinced the Prime Minister to introduce lockdown, told peers on Tuesday that in late February and early March “thousands of infected individuals came into the country” from Spain and Italy and not, as thought, from China, Asia and the US. A YouGov poll suggested Ms Patel had public backing, with 63 per cent saying they favoured quarantine for most arrivals, with only a quarter saying it should be restricted to countries with high virus rates. Just four per cent opposed any quarantine" . . . and Pritti Patel . . . . "We will all suffer if we get this wrong and that is why it is crucial that we introduce these measures now. Let’s not throw away our progress in tackling this deadly virus. We owe it to the thousands who have died."
Yes and we owe it too, to those who may have died because quarantines were not introduced much earlier. I guess Michael O'Leary and you Inan are in the 4% then. Apart from the figures Prof. Fergusson mentions above, I understood that in April, 680,000 people flew into the UK and in May, at least 70 flights daily including many from 'hotspots', probably another 250,000 arrived unchecked.
Yet another about turn from BJ - you couldn't make it up - "In backing the Home Secretary, the Prime Minister told yesterday’s Cabinet meeting that quarantine was “an important policy to restrict the spread of the virus”."
Oh really. BTW this comment is not 'Political' - BJ and Co happen to be there. GLA
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