Quote Originally Posted by rolymiller View Post
So then which of you lot over 70 intend to self isolate yourself for 3 months to protect yourself from the corona virus, That means no leaving home and even distancing yourself from relatives. Imagine what your physical and mental state will be like after that time?

Why not chuck all owd feckers in jail and have done with it! Nowt gets done for weeks then the tories come out with this beauty. Talk about a sledge hammer to crack a nut.

I'm not 70 but I would not self isolate for 3 months even if the bubonic plague was knocking about.

Then of course there is the small matter of chickens comin home to roost because they suddenly realise that the NHS is not gonna cope with this when they have been underfunding it for years and it barely operates on a basic basis anyway.

I feckin despair.
I despair too.

The opposition parties have largely managed to restrain themselves, but that cannot be said for some of their supporters. It is so sad to see you and others making political points on this, Roly.

If you don’t like the proposal from the government for the over 70s, what would your solution be? I agree with you that it is going to be incredibly hard for anyone to self-isolate in the manner that is suggested, but what do you see as the alternative?

I’m sure that you have picked up that this disease is killing the elderly (I understand that the mortality rate goes into double figures for the over 80s and that the average age of the dead in Italy is 81), but even when the illness does not kill, its effect upon the elderly means that it is far more likely that older people will need critical care. In other words, failing to take measures to reduce the infection rate in the elderly risks the NHS being overwhelmed more quickly and deeply than it will be. That won’t just have an impact upon other Covid19 patients as people will continue to need critical care for the ‘usual’ heart attacks and car accidents etc. So if older people follow your rather selfish argument and decline to self-isolate, they may well be responsible for the deaths of others, if not their own.