Am I right thinking....

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kids/ younger generation (under 60 ) are being punished...no school, no uni, lots of bussiness' closed, the lockdown is ruining the economy and the younger generations mental health when they are the ones who will have to work to pay the taxes back from all the mess. No healthy child has d i from covid the risk is low to kids. Holidays are cancelled again not good for mental health/ economy.why punish the under 60s? They will be left with mental health and jobs economy a mess. Why no have pubs fully open and certain days do old and vunranble. Social distance nights. Holidays flight for non social distance under 60 to certain resorts and few flights for the old and vunranble group to certain resorts. This would surely be better then what is happening now. No holidays and no pubs.

I agree it should have been done very differently but the government have done such an excellent job of scaring many people so much that there appears to be no room for common sense.

Despite there being only 3 deaths under 15 many parents are not only saying they won't sent their own children back but that anyone who does (who is not a 'k e y worker') is at best a bad parent for not wanting to look after and educate their own children to being as bad as a murderer for almost certainly killing their child. Couple that with some (thankfully not all) councils and headteachers who don't want to reopen schools at all never mind for all kids (luckily most teachers are better than that) then you've got the people saying they can't go back to work until it's safe (life isn't safe and CV isn't the most dangerous thing around any more - if it ever was).

Yes some older people and some others for other reasons are a lot more at risk and need protection but many would rather live than 'exist' and even more, particularly the elderly frail but otherwise healthy have been damaged more by the lockdown by becoming more socially isolated and losing muscle tone from lack of exercise (walking even short distances).

Having said that - your idea is better than what has happened

I you are being ridiculous! Nobody is being ‘punished’ fgs!

I disagree the young are grounded to protect the elderly /vunrable. Garden centres and NT were the first to be opened, while the kids were off school and at home doing home education. Surely having over 60s /vunrable certain days and evenings on flights, holiday resorts, shops, pubs and under 60s the other days / evenings would be more fair? Instead of keeping kids in and off school to lower the risk.

3 deaths under 15? Do you have a source for that statistic?

I agree OP. I've started to feel very uncomfortable at the sacrifices our children are being made to make. No proper education or socialisation, looks likely to be for the best part of a year, if not longer. I think it's going to do enormous damage :( And I'm in wales, so garden centres are open, golf courses are open, shops are set to be open in less that two weeks but playgrounds are still chained shut and we can't go to any parks or nature reserves because the car parks are closed.