A ridiculous thing to say

I heard on the news that a bird had died of bird flu in quarantine in the UK. Well, that's it Ladies and Gentlemen, we are not safe, we're all going to be in great danger in the next few years, good luck.
But that's not all they said. They said that, because the bird was in quarantine it didn't die in the UK. OK, legally, they're right, quarantine is not the UK, but I don't give a damn about the legal technicallities of quarantine, that bird was on the piece of land commonly known as the UK, therefore it died in the UK. What are these people trying to say?