Seems 1 in 5 openly admit to not self isolating even when told to do so.
This is what the government is up against - is it really all their fault that people clearly don't give a fuck about the rules???
I think this suns it up nicely -
Across the UK, normally law-abiding people are harbouring a guilty secret.
They are the Covid holiday quarantine-breakers.In July, Alice, a 20-something office worker from Surrey, was fed up with not having got away on holiday. For the good of her own mental wellbeing, she says, she broke the rules. Sitting in her garden, she confessed her crime to me.
She'd booked a trip to Majorca with a friend. Then, days before she had been due to fly out, the UK slapped quarantine rules on Spain.
"We were basically told by the holiday company that we wouldn't get our money back. I didn't want to lose another holiday and any money. So just decided to go anyway."
When Alice got to Majorca, she decided the self-isolation she'd face on return to the UK would be a nonsense. The hotel was largely empty and reassuringly clean.
"There wasn't really a time, other than when you were eating, on a sunbed, or in your hotel room that you weren't wearing a mask," she says. "It just felt really safe." Alice believed that the virus transmission rate was very low. She was probably safer in Majorca than England, she thought. In fact, the coronavirus infection rate in Majorca had been climbing rapidly during her stay - meaning her risk of catching it had been growing by the day.
So what happened when Alice returned home?
While her job allowed her to work from home, she wondered about the rest of her life.
"So..." she begins, hesitantly, "I isolated for a couple of days. And then I just thought, you know what, I'm fine."
In the fortnight that followed, the critical period of potential transmission, Alice visited family (although not elderly relatives), went on shopping trips and met up with friends in their homes, or a local park.
"I just thought, if I'm going to catch it anywhere [it will be] in England... people aren't following all the rules all the time."
And you were one of them, I point out.
"Yeah," she replies nervously. Back in her sunny garden in Surrey, Alice, too, didn't think it would happen to her.
"It probably was really selfish of me, and I probably won't do it again," she says, sheepishly. "But at the time, I guess you just think of yourself and you want that holiday - but then you don't want to quarantine. No one wants to quarantine.
"And I don't regret it."More here -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54346001