tjh290633 wrote:For large swathes of the country there is little or no risk of catching the virus, and washing, social distancing and mask wearing where essential are adequate to protect oneself.
.....The country seems to have lost its sense of proportion.
Hmmmm, I can't speak for your own part of the country, but I'm out here in West Wilts (a quiet and generally educated/affluent village of 1,000 people), and all the fresh air you could wish, and five of my very near neighbours (200 metre radius) have had severe Covid-19 infections, of whom one died. Nationally, if it's correct that 6 to 7% of the population have already had it at some time, then the stable door would appear to be too wide open for any of us to become complacent?
There seems to be a message going round that unless you live in a major conurbation with high-density housing you don't need to be concerned. The one thing we do know about this virus is that it's unusually contagious, and that it has a multi-pronged multi-organ attack which still isn't properly understood. That alone would be cause for concern, even if the high-speed outbreaks in some pubs after lockdown derestrictions didn't tell its own story.
Long ago, people with contagious diseases were isolated in special hospitals. I fancy that this concept has been forgotten, as those old isolation hospitals have been knocked down, probably to provide some woke form of social therapy.
I'm not quite sure what you're getting at there, Terry. Are you saying that we''d be better packing off everyone with Covid symptoms into those overcrowded Victorian piles until half of them died? And what about the majority who develop no symptoms at all? Not the right solution, surely, even if it could be afforded?
BJ