(12-09-2020, 01:24 PM)strawman Wrote: I answered it - kids don't tend to get too ill but they are sent home to isolate because they can easily pass it on to others who are at risk.
Ok Proth – here are a few questions for you.
So lets say we go along with your idea of sheltering the most at risk which, of course, includes younger people with chronic illness.
So, assuming the infection rate will increase because no one is taking any precautions in your world, and assuming that if the infection rate increases then there will be more hospitalisations and deaths even among the younger population. Actually it’s not even an assumption, the reality is that if you give an infection more opportunity to spread then cases will increase, so in an environment where many more people will be infected and many without knowing it, then ..
What’s your plan for looking after those who need carers – how are you going to protect them?
How are you going to supply in excess of 12 million people with food, so they don’t have to risk going to the shops?
How are you going to protect those who live with extended families?
What arrangements would you make for those whose children are normally looked after by older relatives after school?
How do you think the ambulance service and NHS will cope with the increased cases? Do we just tell people not to phone 999 when they feel ill enough to require hospital treatment? Noting that even before the pandemic, the ambulance service was not meeting its targets and some people were waiting hours to be treated.
And of course a knock on effect, of their being even more hospital cases and capacity reduction due to infection control, would be that even less people are treated for other illnesses, which is already bad enough.
All of these would, of course, need be achieved by a reduced workforce because of the increased infection spread.
Your assertion that I'm suggesting not "taking any precautions" is incorrect.
To be quite honest everything you're suggesting could be (and always could have been) funded by using the printed money spunked on Business Rates relief, paying people not to go to work, and paying a few of the self employed a bung as well as them being able to stay at work. Anything is possible when you print money.