www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/06/06/tell-mps-not-name-horrified-social-experiment/
"The material privations that are being imposed on our society may be nothing like as severe as those of the Second World War, nor are they likely to last anything like so long. But they are much more unnatural and especially alien to the human impulses that prevail in times of anxiety and loss of life.
With very little apparent concern or consideration of the possible consequences, we are engaging in an unprecedented social experiment. In effect, the government is coercing an entire population into behaving in ways that were once manifested only by people with pathological conditions like agoraphobia or extreme anxiety about personal contact. It is quite remarkable how little general discussion there has been of this.
Those who object are regarded as either foolishly sentimental or, oddly, the very opposite - ruthlessly determined to put practical considerations (like the economic future) above the need to protect lives. And this is being done - the undertaking of all this unquantifiable, speculative social intervention - in the name of that small proportion of people who are known to be, in truth, the only ones in real danger from the virus.
So as someone who just about counts, because of my age, as one of those being protected by everybody else’s sacrifices, I assume the moral right to say this: please don’t. Don’t give up the freedoms and the opportunities that are proper to your stage of life for my sake and do not go meekly into that imprisonment to which the government has sentenced you."