And how will the peers know who to pressure?
Current restrictions could have been enforceable, though a massive logistical challenge, but they were not. It was not deemed necessary. And in any case, when the standard is "nobody outside" it's pretty easy to detect "somebody outside".
But how would compulsory self-isolation work? How would you even know when I walked down the street whether or not I had been on a flight in the last two weeks?
Somebody is playing games with the media and the easily led to either test a reaction or force one.
Whilst the potential for political stupidity is high, I don't see how anybody is going to make it work or even be able to pretend that they could..
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