One Rule for Me: ‘High Value’ Executives, Athletes, Media Freed from Two Weeks’ COVID Quarantine

[Cathoholic]

From the “Lockdowns for thee but not for me” dept:

This is WHY people who think like this,
need so much conscience salve over the “privilege” issues.

Because their charges against others for their alleged “privilege”
stems from their own wrong attitude and rules that they themselves set up that “privilege” for themselves.

Deep down inside they know it’s wrong but they do it anyway.

If lockdowns are so necessary do it for EVERYBODY . . . and if they aren’t . . . do it for NOBODY.

.

One Rule for Me: ‘High Value’ Executives, Athletes, Media Freed from Two Weeks’ COVID Quarantine​

VICTORIA FRIEDMAN

4 Dec 2020

Elites from the world of business, entertainment, and the media will be able to enjoy bypassing the strict coronavirus two-week quarantine that ordinary passengers have to abide by if they are travelling from ‘high risk’ coronavirus countries.

Anyone entering the UK from the some 130 high-risk countries, including the United States and most of Europe, have to self-isolate on arrival for two weeks or face a £10,000 fine. There are necessary exemptions in place for hauliers, airline pilots and staff, diplomats, coach drivers, emergency service workers, and around 50 other groups.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Thursday that these exemptions would be even further expanded from Saturday to include those who fall under the “new business traveller exemption”. The minister wrote on social media that “high-value business travellers will no longer need to self-isolate when returning to England from a country not in a travel corridor, allowing more travel to support the economy and jobs”.

Also, “certain performing arts professionals, TV production staff, journalists, and recently signed elite sportspersons will also be exempt . . .

The Times estimates that the exemptions would apply to some tens of thousands of businessmen and entertainers. . . .

The DfT rationalised the same exemption for athletes, entertainers, and journalists coming from outside the UK’s narrow travel corridor would guarantee “that industries which require specific, high-talent individuals who rely on international connections can continue to complete their work”.

talkRADIO host Julia Hartley-Brewer challenged Business Secretary Alok Sharma over how the Chinese coronavirus could tell the difference between an elite and the common people, asking: “Can you point me to the medical evidence that rich people can’t transmit the virus, but poor people can?” Mr Sharma responded indirectly, by saying that Public Health England and the NHS claimed the numbers would be too low to “have an impact in terms of health risks”.

The privileged travel corridors are reminiscent of the Soviet Russian “ZiL” lanes of Moscow’s roads, reserved for senior Communist diplomats often riding in their ZiL or Chaika-made limousines, able to bypass ordinary traffic. . . .

'High Value' Executives, Athletes, Media Freed from COVID Quarantine

 

[YADA]

Some people are just way more important and exempt from the burdens placed on the little people … dont you understand that?

If not - why not? You are a non entity … no one knows who you are outside a a half dozen people …learn you place and value comrade

 

[1cthlctrth]

Again, if these “highly valued” truly believed in the importance of quarantines, they’d want to “protect” themselves, the other “highly-valued”, and those who come into contact with them.

I just love when the TRUE beliefs of leftists are exposed.