Coronavirus: Thailand added to England's 'quarantine-free' list

[Mama Noodle 6,457]

23 minutes ago, polpott said:

Never filled out a declaration on arrival. I am a UK citizen with a UK passport, which, I presume, you are not.

This is probably your first covid too (like everyone else).

 

American, but I can read and have been following along with covid travel stuff for months now because my employment requires constant travel. 

[Mama Noodle 6,457]

15 minutes ago, Hamus Yaigh said:

Exactly, you are free to flout whatever regulations you like and put everyone else at risk bro.

Crazy because common sense would (should) dictate that a person going home is likely gonna be around family, and should self isolate after high risk exposure regardless of whether or not the law mandates it. 

[polpott 5,252]

4 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

Crazy because common sense would (should) dictate that a person going home is likely gonna be around family, and should self isolate after high risk exposure regardless of whether or not the law mandates it. 

Currently in the UK (far more so in the US), the average person is far more at risk from their next door neighbour than from someone who has traveled from Thailand and transited through Dubai airport.

 

 

Edited September 18, 2020 by polpott

[bkk_mike 431]

36 minutes ago, polpott said:

Not any more. Check your facts. And what if you live in the UK? Itinerary for the rest of your life?

I think you're confused...

They got rid of landing cards.

 

But this new Covid questionnaire is not a landing card. You can fill it in online, but you have to give your flight details and where you'll be staying for the two week self-isolation (if your journey details show you need to self-isolate).

[polpott 5,252]

13 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

This is probably your first covid too (like everyone else).

 

American, but I can read and have been following along with covid travel stuff for months now because my employment requires constant travel. 

So, you have never entered the UK with a UK passport?

[polpott 5,252]

1 minute ago, bkk_mike said:

I think you're confused...

They got rid of landing cards.

 

But this new Covid questionnaire is not a landing card. You can fill it in online, but you have to give your flight details and where you'll be staying for the two week self-isolation (if your journey details show you need to self-isolate).

And if you don't fill it in?

[Mama Noodle 6,457]

1 minute ago, polpott said:

So, you have never entered the UK with a UK passport?

Do you think your U.K. passport exempts you from the covid questionnaire?

[polpott 5,252]

Just now, Mama Noodle said:

Do you think your U.K. passport exempts you from the covid questionnaire?

i think it exempts me from interfacing with an immigration officer.

[GeorgeCross 6,742]

excellent news for stranded brits, no quarantine, extensions or extra docs now required!

 

 

 

 

[Mama Noodle 6,457]

6 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

excellent news for stranded brits, no quarantine, extensions or extra docs now required!

This always made me curious, Brits have always been able to go home, just like Americans. 

[Guderian 5,161]

Since hardly anybody in England and Wales is paying attention to the quarantine rules, what does it matter which country is on the list and which isn't? New cases are rising sharply, and now deaths have started creeping upward again, so much for Boris's "voluntary" quarantine.

[dave moir 486]

1 hour ago, brommers said:

Oh gosh, how wonderful!

No, wait. Does England not have over 3000 new infections per day, does England not have a testing system that is about to collapse, does England not have resurgent city by city lockdowns, does England not have the threat of curfews being imposed???

Why would anyone in their right mind want to go to this shambolic mess of a country!

Gather you're not English!

[Crusader 450]

Well, that's still not a good enough reason to want to go there anyway.

[stephenterry 7,238]

Quite agree. 

[Matzzon 13,663]

1 hour ago, polpott said:

How would immigration in the UK know that I'd been to Dubai? On arrival I present my passport to a reader and walk through the gate. No questions asked and my passport doesn't show my entry into Dubai. Technically, transfer passengers don't enter the country.

 

 

That´s wrong! Even if you do not have a stamp in your passport, you will still have a digital travel trace in your passport, as it´s scanned at every arrival. So, you can be sure they know where you have been as well as that you will get 14 days of beautiful quarantine if the country is not on the list. Problem solved!