Repatriation

[fruitsalad]

The people who are being flown back to Britain, are they being tested?

[fiction-factory]

Those coming in dinghies is a separate issue. The OP was about repatriation flights.

It'd be good though if someone could actually make a reasoned case for quarantining or testing every Brit returning home (and if it's a repatriation flight we should make sure we know). Once here they are just like you and me aren't they provided we give them Boris's letter.

[fiction-factory]

And to make it clear. I don't care whether we lock all returning Brits in a detention centre for 2 weeks if it keeps everyone else happy that something is being done. I just don't see why there is such strong feeling about this particularly s the scientists and govt have explained several times. I think they'll end up doing it though just to be seen to be doing it

[Buenchico]

Public Health England has repeatedly stated that temperature checks at airports are ineffective. e.g. from the Luton Airport website (although the same information can be found on other airport websites too):
"[Q]: Are there any health checks on arriving passengers?

[A]: Public Health England (PHE) is the UK Government’s lead agency on Coronavirus. LLA is implementing all their latest guidance.

PHE have implemented a number of measures including early warning of illnesses on flights and a UK wide public information campaign, but PHE do not believe temperature checks on arrival are an effective way of keeping the public safe.

Arriving passengers must follow the latest guidance issued by the UK Government and travel immediately to their place of residence".

Anyway, Covid-19 is no longer largely a threat from overseas. It's already HERE and that's what we've got to worry about! (i.e. you're far more at risk of contracting Covid-19 from chatting face-to-face with your mate from Birmingham than you are if you hug and embrace every single passenger arriving on a flight from Beijing).

The idea that we should be testing all arrivals at our airports seems to have far more to do with xenophobia than it does with science!

[fiction-factory]

Thank you Buenchico.

[Togo]

There you have it then. Every other Country in the World is filled with xenophobes. All the EU states all of Asia, the Antipodes, the Americas the lot of them racist, China, Japan,(we always thought they were) the Africans, Icelandic, even the Pacific Islanders are testing and monitoring every single entrant into their realms. Guess who isn't? Guess who is having more bovver getting the infection rates down? Guess who is attracting every itinerant from across the Globe to it's shores. Correct.

[237SJ]

No. A notice from Public Health England is read out on the aircraft telling people to phone 111 if they have any symptoms after they arrive home (in answer to the OP)

[david small]

UK couldn’t run a booze up at a brewery.

[bednobs]

"We can rely on you to be wrong every time."
why so rude? is is because i don't agree with you on this one issue, or do you dislike me for some other reason? but thanks for monitoring the veracity of all my posts!

[Peter Pedant]

no I think they are having their temps measured and then 'forced to agree
to self isolate - and as far as I can see you use public transport to get home
(my brother is marooned in NZ and is no hurry to come back)

[fiction-factory]

No Togo. Not every country puts them in quarantine. As far as I can see there is nothing to be disagreed with in what Buenchico posted.

Perhaps you can give a logical explanation of what needs to be done and why. Not with the dinghy travellers- with the British citizens returning home.

I'm not bothered either way really. I realise it would make some people feel better that something is being done, even if it's pointless and expensive, and there is no downside apart from cost and inconvenience to fellow Brits while some others here flaunt the lockdown. But I'm willing to learn where the WHO and scientists have got their thinking wrong.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah got a bit depressed with Fauci saying he thought it would become endemic
and the old would have to lock themselves away indefinitely

I was rather hoping it cd be eradicated

[fender62]

the dinghy illegals, are just what let free, anyone know who they are?
nope thought not, jihadists ex isis? does it matter, nope...sent to croydon..maybe they will show up, maybe they have tb,hiv or other nice diseases..

[fiction-factory]

Yes, but the OP was about Brits being repatriated, not TB ridden jihadists arriving in dinghies. It's a very important issue which is not getting the attention it should but maybe needs to be on a separate thread.

[jno]

moving into winter down there, PP, and summer up here. Still, their lockdown is being eased a bit, which doesn't seem imminent here.