NORTH GOWER — Fruit and vegetable grower Mel Foster is annoyed by quarantine restrictions on farms during the pandemic.
As it stands, when foreign workers from Jamaica arrive at his farm, he has to house them, get their groceries and pay them for the two weeks that they self-isolate.
He does get compensation for paying the workers to hang out but he doesn’t understand why there needs to be a quarantine at all. It delays planting, doesn’t stop the spread of the virus, and the workers themselves don’t want to be cooped up in small bunk houses, although they can walk outside.
Test the workers for COVID-19, tell them not to leave the farm for 14 days and let them go to work, Foster says. “We are out in the middle of the country and there is a lot space here. The people making laws have no connection to the farm.” Foster is right and the research backs him up.
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