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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
The PM is reacting to the way the virus is spreading. If he did not react, the measures taken up until that point would have been inadequate to achieve the required results.
However, I must agree that enough is enough. There is growing pressure now for a different approach - one that I have been advocating for sometime now. Protect the vulnerable and let the rest of the population to go about their business.
Hopefully,the Commons debate on 6 October will achieve just that. I just hope they don’t force the older population to shield, because many of them are still hail and hearty. Some of us are even healthier than some people in their 30s and so it would be massively unfair to subject them to such restrictions.
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Age is a major factor in how serious Covid affects people. A doctor on Channel 5 said that 50+ is when the risk heightens and it gets worse the older a person is. A caller asked if a healthy pensioner was at less risk than an at risk younger person and she said no.
I too thought that it could be better to shield at risk groups and let the rest go about their business as normal, but a couple of days ago both Johnson and Sturgeon said that this wouldn't work as the virus would find it's way to the vulnerable by doing this.