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It's even more curious. The only official thing I can find online is the original agreement that France would be excepted. Can that be right? A phone call from Johnson to Macron produces a policy that's dumped three days later, the new policy has not been communicated in anything other than in a press conference, and only the now incorrect original policy is still on government websites (and the French Embassy's!)? https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-between-the-uk-and-france-10-may-2020

https://www.ft.com/content/ddf6b198-727b-43ec-a5e4-aef8b5d8fb06
it was, as usual, Johnson talking through his arse before realising the consequences.
 
I found out about 4 days later. Luckily was working from home so didn't mingle with anyone, but could have given it to the missus and little one.
But I assume from your comment that you didn't?

I find this really odd. Something infectious enough to spread like wildfire across the country by merely passing people by or touching a handrail, for some bizarre reason doesn't manage to infect your wife and kids after days of very close proximity.
 
Micro aggression! There was no "current position"! They announced a 14-day quarantine on arriving (foreign) travellers - except from France.

I'm not sure if the Telegraph is minimising the volte-face by "as had been previously suggested" as if it wasn't announced as official policy (and if you're looking for official guidance online, it still is). A bit like "not much risk of catching it in a care home" (but we only meant if you couldn't catch it from people who've got it). It's just another bit of mixed messaging - you can excuse any government for trying to keep up with a fast-moving situation, but you do wonder how much of the confusion is, if not deliberate, just incompetent. (Did Johnson ask Cummings before his cosy chat in French with Macron resulted in the French exemption?)
 
But I assume from your comment that you didn't?

I find this really odd. Something infectious enough to spread like wildfire across the country by merely passing people by or touching a handrail, for some bizarre reason doesn't manage to infect your wife and kids after days of very close proximity.
She may have had it as well without any signs? Don't know, I may not have had it but I've never lost my smell and taste like that before. Also my wife's friends husband had it, had fever, front line worker so was tested and did have it but she never caught it even though they share a bed.
 
She may have had it as well without any signs? Don't know, I may not have had it but I've never lost my smell and taste like that before. Also my wife's friends husband had it, had fever, front line worker so was tested and did have it but she never caught it even though they share a bed.
I wasn't questioning you, just commenting that it's weird.
 
But I assume from your comment that you didn't?

I find this really odd. Something infectious enough to spread like wildfire across the country by merely passing people by or touching a handrail, for some bizarre reason doesn't manage to infect your wife and kids after days of very close proximity.
@Rammy Blue has had a similar encounter, I believe.
 
But I assume from your comment that you didn't?

I find this really odd. Something infectious enough to spread like wildfire across the country by merely passing people by or touching a handrail, for some bizarre reason doesn't manage to infect your wife and kids after days of very close proximity.
Or he didn't have it as losing sense of smell could have another cause. But in any case if the virus was that easy to pass on from someone who isn't coughing and spluttering, we'd nearly all have it. One of the big information / research gaps has been on the risks of transmission from mere proximity, or how long the virus survives on different surfaces, etc etc
 
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