Originally Posted by KSVVZ2015

I do not know anyone who has ever complied or even largely complied with the self-isolation rules. We have taken certain steps to avoid doing official things - we came back from holiday 14 days before my son's nursery started last fall, I don't go into the office, etc. But myself and others I know are becoming increasing indignant about this whole thing given (i) self-isolation rules coming from amber countries with fractions of the per capita incidence of COVID and (ii) from next week, the failure to recognize UK-approved vaccines given outside of the UK and are now at the point of just ignoring it entirely (as a UK resident, I accept that if I get fined, I will have to pay it - I'm willing to take that risk - though query whether an officer faced with someone who was double vaccinated would actually issue the fine even if technically allowed - YMMV of course). Additionally, I spoke with a friend last night who said all of his co-workers are just lying about exemptions from self-isolation on the PLF and having no trouble with it (note I don't condone this - I actually think its riskier than just saying you'll self isolate and not doing it; I only post this to address the point re compliance). I think rates of full compliance have always been quite low and partial compliance rates are rapidly diminishing.

Originally Posted by PbodyPhoto

I imagine compliance with home isolation is well bellow 10%. I hear people all over london talking about technically being in quarantine while sitting at a pub, I even overheard someone take their NHS T&T call while sitting on the bus next to me. Would be interesting to see if they did some random snap enforcements where they visited every household on the quarantine lists on the same day to take stock of how many were actually complying. I doubt they would find many people at home and rightly so, its an absurd process.