Flights arriving daily in to the UK with zero checks

zorro_mfc said:
Including from South African and Brazil

How can this madness be allowed to continue.

what’s the point in putting all these draconian stops to our daily life in place only to allow more and more foreign pathogens with little to no checks in place.
Click to expand...

Especially as one of the "benefits" of the Brexit the majority of this government pushed was the ability to "control our borders". However it appears not to rich white people...
 
Apparently 100% of spot checks are carried out by border control on those in quarantine according to a Tory MP on politics live today. No idea how many 100% spot checks are?

Another great 100% success story.
 
On PMQ's today Johnson said that you have to have had a negative test in the last 72 hours and you were quarantined on arrival. Is this not haopening?
 
MoggasDog said:
I think they are requirements to board the planes - isnt it that you must provide a negative test?
Click to expand...
The woman who was positive in NZ last week had been in quarantine, tested negative twice and three weeks after landing got symptoms and a positive test. So even quarantine isn't fool proof but it's better than nothing other than a test three days before flying.
 
bear66 said:
The woman who was positive in NZ last week had been in quarantine, tested negative twice and three weeks after landing got symptoms and a positive test. So even quarantine isn't fool proof but it's better than nothing other than a test three days before flying.
Click to expand...
The issue was that she caught the virus from another guest at the MIQ. They were lax to put a new arrival in a room opposite to her. They have since changed room allocation procedures.
 
It just beggars belief why people are arriving in planes. Just what are they coming for?
Holidays ? Surely not
Business ? Surely not
Returning home - why did they go in the first place
Can only be a trickle
I think this has been the biggest cause of the number of cases.
Im sure money is at the root of it
 
HundredRoom said:
It just beggars belief why people are arriving in planes. Just what are they coming for?
Holidays ? Surely not
Business ? Surely not
Returning home - why did they go in the first place
Can only be a trickle
I think this has been the biggest cause of the number of cases.
Im sure money is at the root of it
Click to expand...
Money is at the root of everything this Government does.
 
It was the same back in March last year when dozens of flights were arriving everyday from the then wort hit places, such as China, Italy and Iran. The logic was that the virus was already in the U.K. so there was no point trying to stop it. Utter madness and as said above, why are so many people still travelling? There cannot be that many genuine travellers with legitimate reasons?
 
bear66 said:
Apparently 100% of spot checks are carried out by border control on those in quarantine according to a Tory MP on politics live today. No idea how many 100% spot checks are?

Another great 100% success story.
Click to expand...
I’ve quarantined three times due to travel during lockdown, my missus twice, not one call or spot check. I know loads of people who didn’t do the quarantine after travelling - no checks.
 
Before slagging off international travellers for spreading the virus in the UK, I think a little look closer to home at the number of people ignoring no travel, mask usage, and no mixing outside a bubble advice might be beneficial
 
asredastheycome said:
20 plus thousand a day coming in to country. Not one has been put into an hotel to isolate as yet.
Click to expand...
Heathrow is reported to have 25,000 a day, about 10% of normal traffic. They normally account for a 1/4 of passengers, so you could make a rough guesstimate that there are in total 100,000 people flying into the country each day.
Plus the ports.

There are around 1m hotel bedrooms in the UK, so we'd be unable to quarantine every arrival for two weeks unless there was some cap on numbers.

Australia are rationing their arrivals to IIRC something like 5000 a week to ensure they have capacity & control to quarantine everyone. There are around 40k Australians overseas & unable to get home as the quota is full.

We'd have to limit it to c.70k a day, about 7% of normal flight passengers, to ensure there were enough beds & have a massive logistics operation to ensure people were assigned to vacant beds in hotels, transported to them, fed & monitored before being turned loose 14 days later.
The papers would be full of stories of people flying into Newcastle & that live in Cramlington being shipped to Cornwall to quarantine & being given a pot noodle beween a family of 4 to last a day, plus the stories of other families trapped abroad desperate to return home. The airlines would be moaning even more than now.

Far better to make noises about doing something while kicking the can down the road & waiting for warmer weather & vaccinations to reduce transmission.
 
Malaguena said:
Before slagging off international travellers for spreading the virus in the UK, I think a little look closer to home at the number of people ignoring no travel, mask usage, and no mixing outside a bubble advice might be beneficial
Click to expand...
Absolutely.
My friend went to HK for Christmas, tested twice before flying, quarantine taxi to a Covid hotel, spent 2 weeks there, tested regularly, & got a week with the family. Flew back to London, straight onto the tube, back into work the following day.

First thought is "that is so reckless of the UK" but HK were at 60 new cases a day, while the UK were at 45,000 on course to reach 60,000 new cases a day. He probably had greater exposure to the virus in an hour on the tube than he did in a week of close family contact.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top