Quarantine When Travelling From The Usa

[danchip]

If a person travels to the UK from the USA and needs to quarantine, do the people he is staying with during the quarantine period also need to quarantine?

[teacake44]

Are they really going to let you stay with them?

[calmck]

Why would anyone want to travel to the USA now except for exceptional circumstance I cannot imagine. Hope your insurance will cover Covid related illness

[Apc2604]

Perhaps it's a family member that has been stuck out in the State's. It's happened to my friend with her son coming home. He kept his distance from everybody for a month. But they could hardly refuse to have him at home.

[Apc2604]

He was in the states travelling before the virus hit.

[Bazile]

The question is someone travelling to the UK , not someone travelling to the USA

[teacake44]

^ I'm glad someone pointed that out before it went way off track. :0)

[woofgang]

serious answer is no they don't unless.... "Support to help you self-isolate in your own accommodation
The people you’re staying with do not need to self-isolate, unless they travelled with you or you develop symptoms of coronavirus."
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-how-to-self-isolate-when-you-travel-to-the-uk/coronavirus-covid-19-how-to-self-isolate-when-you-travel-to-the-uk

[calmck]

Sorry misread question

[danchip]

Woofgang, thanks seems strange that he can come over from the U.S and have to quarantine for two weeks so that he doesn't infect anyone but the 5 people he'll be living with during his two weeks are free to do what they want and potentially infect others

[New Judge]

//Woofgang, thanks seems strange that he can come over from the U.S and have to quarantine for two weeks so that he doesn't infect anyone but the 5 people he'll be living with during his two weeks are free to do what they want and potentially infect others//

It's not strange at all (if by "strange" you mean out of kilter with many other Covid regulations). It's par for the course (and scribbled on the back of an envelope when it was "planned"). "Quarantine" is what happens in New Zealand. When you land there you are taken by bus (accompanied by security) to a hotel. You are allocated a room and not allowed to leave it for fourteen days. Your comestibles are left outside your door. That's quarantine. And a lot of good that did them.

[ichkeria]

I’ll say it again:
They could test them instead.
Just a thought ..

[Prudie]

If that's the case then more evidence the whole thing is barking. Idiots on a power trip.

[THECORBYLOON]

"It’s important to avoid as much contact with other people as possible in your home in order to reduce the risk of transmitting coronavirus. You should stay in a well-ventilated room with a window to the outside that can be opened, separate from other people in your home."

[New Judge]

"Should", Corby, "should". Not "must". There is nothing in the legislation that I can see which prevents you from mixing with other members of your household or which prevents those others from mixing elsewhere.

The whole idea is a nonsense. People can arrive at Heathrow, get on the Piccadilly Line and travel on an underground train that stops all stops through the middle of London. Then they can arrive home to a multi-generational household and mix with family members, all of whom can go to work, go to the pub, go on buses and trains and visit shops. Meantime to poor oik who just happens to have arrived from an area which may even have had a lower infection rate than where he lives is confined to barracks. Utterly ridiculous and pointless.

[ichkeria]

Absolutely

[satprof]

@ichkeria 13:20 Testing must be better than all this grasping at straws by politicians who haven't a clue. My daughter, travelling to the UK from Dubai with her daughter, will have to have a (very recent) negative result simply to get on the aircraft out there. They still have to quarantine when they get to the UK. Completely bonkers!

[THECORBYLOON]

NJ, your views are well-known, trust me.

I quoted from the guidance which shows it is not impossible to self-isolate within a household.

There are any number of things that folk must do by law in their daily lives, many of which they fail to do and go unpunished.

Even if the law said folk MUST stay in a room, it would be difficult to police. The guidance is exactly that, guidance.

[New Judge]

//Even if the law said folk MUST stay in a room, it would be difficult to police.//

It would be impossible to police. And the mandatory instructions to self-isolate and not leave home are only a tiny bit short of that. People need to see a reason to comply with severe restrictions on their activities if mass compliance is to be achieved. The original lockdown was quite successful in that respect - helped considerably by the fact that people had nowhere other than essential shops to visit even if they did want to go out. People arriving from an area where the infection rate is similar or even lower than where they live can see no logic whatsoever in keeping themselves locked away for a fortnight, especially when the conditions attached to their internment are so loose and in any case unenforceable.

[Deskdiary]

“...it is not impossible to self-isolate within a household”

That’s absurd.

Unless you’re going to crap in a bucket in your room and not emerge for a fortnight, I’d say it is nigh on impossible to have arrived from Prague this morning at 4.01am and self-isolate if you’re living with people.

The rules are totally batsiht crazy.

[Peter Pedant]

\\ "Quarantine" is what happens in New Zealand. ........stibles are left outside your door. That's quarantine. And a lot of good that did them.\\

and in Oz where they do everything better - they converted covid to a venereal disease (hur hur hur) - but it was fun doing it

I wdnt ask a judge for rational public health advice

yeah - lock them in a room and pass welsh rarebit under the door (*) a few times a day - and are there three - then dig three six foot pits in the garden

(*) recycled from HIV jokes - why do they like welsh r so much ?
answer it is the only thing we can get under the door....