the allegory of the cave platos republic

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You can find a copy of my letter in PDF format here (right click, select 'save target/link as').

It is about the new Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020, put into law early Feb 2020 in the UK.

My complaint is essentially contained in the second paragraph, as follows:

By following a particular path/flow through the logic of the regulations - as it now reads, on just a supposed ‘belief’ of an officer, an individual can in effect be forcefully removed from their private residence and detained indefinitely (‘at a suitable place’) without a proper warrant being sought and no paperwork being issued and probably (in practice) without any recourse to an appeal in a magistrate’s court (despite the provisions in Section 12).

Following the logical flow of the legislation, under certain scenarios an individual can end up in the situation above.

But maybe this is intended?