[RichardCoulter]

Growing signs that the over 70's are indignant about being told to self isolate when the time comes.

Reasons include becoming lonely, bored or needing to go out for food as they have nobody else, expressions that this is draconian or an assault to their civil liberties or that they survived the war as soldiers and intend to fight this or ride it out. Some say that they don't care if they get it, with a whatever will be will be attitude.

This mornings Jeremy Vine show featured a doctor who said that they must take this seriously as nobody under the age of 102* has ever seen anything like it as this is no ordinary virus.

* In 1918/19 up to 50 million people died.

What will we do if they refuse to co-operate? Let them die? Use the police/army to escort them back home and keep them there?

What about the over 70's who have something like dementia who tend to go wondering off?

One solution might be to use any spare hotels that aren't being used as makeshift hospitals to alleviate loneliness and have no worries sbout food supplies and effectively put them under house arrest.

The problem with that is that if one of them has the virus, all the rest will probably get it.