Welcome to the Hotel Heathrow

After aying for two weeks that a ten day stay in an isolation hospital would be required for all those arriving from "red list" countries, it should come as no surprise that the UK wasn't ready.

First of all, owners of each hotel will get £70 a day for full board for each passenger each day, the remaining one hundred quid goes elsewhere. Some on security, but more than the cost of the actual hotel stay. and I guess the three meals won't be up to much if they had to work on such small contributions from those staying.

You will only be allowed outside if security says its OK.

But then there are exemptions.

And it turns out that in the airport, people from red list and non red list countries mix freely, meaning that any virus being carried will be spread and sent out around the country.

THe UK has, some fifty weeks too late, locked down, but in what will be a familiar pattern, will not be actually hard enough to do any good. More like window dressing really.

Which should surprise no one, really.

Meanwhile, the BBC has been giving Steve Baker, head of ERG and CRG plenty of airtime in which he used it to threaten the PM if restrictions go on too long and there isn't a clear road map out of restrictions. As previously shown, their "research" on Europe went no further than a dictionary on how to spell the word, so one suspect their COVID knowledge is at about the same level.

Policy by dogma rather than by evidence.

Positive tests, hospitalisations and deaths are all showing good signs of heading in the right direction, so why notuse this point to make the same mistakes as last June when the economy was inlocked before data supported it?

At least, for the time being, Johnson seems to be pushing back, but he will cave in. He always does.