It's a distraction. Get the infection under control first!
- It's easy (unlike, say, getting enough PPE, or protecting care home residents)
- It's populist (people have been clamouring for a quarantine since the beginning of the outbreak)
- It blame shifts onto diseased foreigners.
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There will be a time for quarantine again... when the number of new cases in the UK has fallen consistently for weeks.
But right now it's just another dead cat.