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Originally Posted by ianch99
The point I am making is that it not yet clear, beyond reasonable doubt, that the vulnerable are not disproportionately at risk.
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"the vulnerable" are always at risk, and always have been, hence the name, covid is just one more virus on the list.
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Originally Posted by ianch99
The number of people with Covid are still large in number and so the chances of encountering an infected person, when they have no obligation to isolate, is significant.
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To quote a recent post "Total rubbish".
The number of cases in the UK (in the last 7 days) is 309,260, the population is about 67 million, so roughly 0.46%.
Many of those are of course unlikely to be out and about while ill, but even if you said 50% of them are, thats about 0.23% (about 1 in 430).
The vulnerable will already be taking precautions (as they always have) so the chances of them "encountering an infected person" are really quite small, not significant.