Arrivals at Heathrow - Not being screened or checked for temperature
By Derek Pattison
Brian Bamford (Bammy), has cast doubt ("April Fool's Day comment on airports), on the validity of comments that I posted from Nicola Grundy, on Northern Voices, regarding the situation at Heathrow Airport. He seems to think that her comment is somewhat misleading and doesn't reflect the true situation at Heathrow Airport. While I cannot see that that in her comment, Ms Grundy claims that it's " business as usual' at Heathrow, since posting her comment, I have also checked further.
Screening for coronavirus began in January in other airports around the world, but in the UK, it was simply ruled out as being ineffective. Public Health England said, "airports have been provided with leaflets and posters." Surely, this is like applying a sticking plaster to a gaping wound?
On the 30th and 31st March 2020, the Sun newspaper gave the following report about the situation at Heathrow Airport.
"Flights from coronavirus hot spots were still landing in Britain on Monday with thousands of passengers not being checked for symptoms. Planes from Italy, America, and Spain, all touched down at Heathrow yesterday morning with passengers simply walking through arrivals and onto public transport. Although many had masks, there were queues at arrivals and departures and there appeared to be barely any social distancing between travellers. One traveller posted an alarming video on Twitter showing dozens of passengers queuing up at check-in with no social distancing. He wrote:
'Unfortunately the penny has not dropped. While millions of people are in lockdown to help our brave NHS, this is what is going on at London Heathrow. Someone needs to get a grip.'
Around 12,000 passengers passed through Heathrow yesterday and although this was way down on the usual 213,000 a day and landings and takes off were down to one every fifteen minutes - as opposed to one every 45 seconds it still meant regular traffic all day."
If passenger arrivals at Heathrow Airport, can still at this late hour, walk straight onto the streets of Britain without any screening, even temperature screening, when they may have come from a high-risk country, then what is the point of police roadblocks, police drones, and telling people to stop at home, when people are still flying into the UK who may be contagious and possibly spreading the virus to other members of the public? This is tantamount to pissing in the wind.
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