Saturday afternoon we went to Heathrow to pick my daughter up , I was absolutely shocked as we got to arrivals and there were hoards of people just milling around waiting - no social distancing there !! Obviously several flights had landed and these weren’t just British nationals coming home because other countries were closing their borders these were holiday makers . I spoke to a lady who said she and her family had just flown in from South Africa on holiday !!! I asked why she had come and she said she’d had it booked for a while and would never get the chance again .and if she got stuck here so be it . WHY are we allowing people to come here surely our boarders should be closed to non essential travel . These people are potentially putting an extra strain on our resources including the NHS . Also there was not a single poster or notice anywhere around the airport warning of Coronavirus or informing people about social distancing or washing hands . Even disembarking passengers weren’t given any information they were just free to leave , no temperature checks nothing where as in Vietnam and Thailand they were checked at every opportunity - 3 times in Bangkok airport if you had a temperature you weren’t allowed to travel anywhere ! We need to shut our borders to non essential travel , bring our people home from abroad but that’s it , as an island with no land borders it should be easier isolate the whole country not bring more risk to our shores !
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