Originally Posted by
Stan446
Why should flight crews be exempt? They have the most contact and are probably the biggest spreaders of the virus.
Because the point of the automatic quarantine is NOT to catch inbound CV cases, it's to discourage non-local visitors. If you're local you can just quarantine at home. Or not if you prefer, they're not going to go to your house and check.
Crew should be exempt because we need the air transport network intact (at least at a reduced level) to respond to this and keep vital stuff going. The fed has already intervened in other places and they will here too.