10 Day Hotel Quarantine on arrival back to the UK
Discussion
Chainsaw Rebuild said:
kiethton said:
Or just fly to a yellow/green and book a completely separate flight the next day, being realistic - how would they know....
Yes because that's just what we need now - people trying to avoid rules that are their to try and put the pandemic behind us.Hugo Stiglitz]No offence but do you really [b said:
need[\b] to fly now?
You know some of us actually do. I suspect based on what Ruskie has written he's in this category. Not all travel is off to Magaluf for cheap beers & holibibs. 
I've done 24 flights since August last year, not one leisure. And if you look at the latest data it's really not a great risk. Out of 167 amber countries, only 16 returned any cases of CV over a 3week period covering end May/early June. And not one of those cases was a variant of concern.
kiethton said:
Kiribati268 said:
Ruskie said:
All thoughts of avoiding this are out the window, as the country I am residing is now red.
Sounds like a deeply, deeply unpleasant experience but I will just have to get on with it!
https://twitter.com/lisataljard/status/14055479198...
Depending on where you are in the world, come back through a green or amber country. You've lost the time anyway as you would have to stay in a hotel, so you might as well serve it in the freedom of a green, or at home from an amber. Although if coming through amber I think you'll have to serve 10 days there, then 10 days at home. Still much better than paying a fortune to stay in HMP hotel. Sounds like a deeply, deeply unpleasant experience but I will just have to get on with it!
https://twitter.com/lisataljard/status/14055479198...
GT03ROB said:
You know some of us actually do. I suspect based on what Ruskie has written he's in this category. Not all travel is off to Magaluf for cheap beers & holibibs.
I've done 24 flights since August last year, not one leisure. And if you look at the latest data it's really not a great risk. Out of 167 amber countries, only 16 returned any cases of CV over a 3week period covering end May/early June. And not one of those cases was a variant of concern.
Amber seems to be a list of countries with some hotspots thrown in with a load of countries that they couldn't find on the map. Singapore [green] has more cases than Burundi [amber] etc. 'If in doubt, chuck it in Amber, especially if no one holidays there'...I've done 24 flights since August last year, not one leisure. And if you look at the latest data it's really not a great risk. Out of 167 amber countries, only 16 returned any cases of CV over a 3week period covering end May/early June. And not one of those cases was a variant of concern.
I've been flying throughout as well, doubly difficult when you transit/overnight in a 3rd country as you then have a sort of fresh game theory exercise every few weeks as rules ebb and flow. I enjoyed the pictures of 'over crowding' at Heathrow where everyone shared their covid -ve certificates and the subliminal assumption that every other country is operating under a normal regime, and so highly dangerous, rather than often having the same or harder general regimes in place.
Professionally you're more than likely to have a 'protected' life cycle - you go from private -> public -> managed -> public -> private, with the 'public' bits amounting to about 2% of your time [ie going from the airport in a taxi]. I've had about 40 tests and done about 4 months in isolation, it isn't, nor ever has been, willy-nilly.
This doesn't completely prevent leakage, [which should tell you something], but the Army did 40,000 tests over the xmas period on lorry drivers. No one really mentions/minds/complains about that.
GT03ROB said:
andy_s said:
kiethton said:
Or just fly to a yellow/green and book a completely separate flight the next day, being realistic - how would they know....
And get your covid test done again... GT03ROB said:
Hugo Stiglitz]No offence but do you really [b said:
need[\b] to fly now?
You know some of us actually do. I suspect based on what Ruskie has written he's in this category. Not all travel is off to Magaluf for cheap beers & holibibs. I've done 24 flights since August last year, not one leisure. And if you look at the latest data it's really not a great risk. Out of 167 amber countries, only 16 returned any cases of CV over a 3week period covering end May/early June. And not one of those cases was a variant of concern.
Amazing how judgemental people can be.
I did my first round of hotel quarantine a few weeks ago in Edinburgh after returning from Qatar. I think by the point I got to the hotel I was so numb and institutionalised by already having been away for 6 and a bit weeks that another ten days didn't matter.
Room was ok, I shifted the bed a bit and made a space where I could attempt to exercise a bit. You could ask out to a rat run behind the hotel but it took them three hours to actually come and get me the first time I just decided to forget about going out. Food was average. Had the "continental" breakfast. Lunch was basically a meal deal from Boots, and the evening meal was hot. Very little voice but you could get a delivery in if you needed to.
I've been telling anyone that is thinking of travelling international at the moment that it's really not worth the hassle and a beaurocracy and paperwork. Stay at home, give it another 6-12 months.
Room was ok, I shifted the bed a bit and made a space where I could attempt to exercise a bit. You could ask out to a rat run behind the hotel but it took them three hours to actually come and get me the first time I just decided to forget about going out. Food was average. Had the "continental" breakfast. Lunch was basically a meal deal from Boots, and the evening meal was hot. Very little voice but you could get a delivery in if you needed to.
I've been telling anyone that is thinking of travelling international at the moment that it's really not worth the hassle and a beaurocracy and paperwork. Stay at home, give it another 6-12 months.
RichTT said:
Stay at home, give it another 6-12 months.
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