LAUSR

In March 2020, the UK introduced a national quarantine for an infectious disease for the first time in over 140 years. A year later, I ask and attempt to answer the question: Why has the UK reintroduced harmful national quarantines not once but three times in the last year, although such quarantines were abandoned in 1877 as impractical without serious economic and social consequences, as indeed we have witnessed, but also avoidable with a new system of ‘medical inspection’ or local public health?