Who do the people with health conditions/vulnerable etc think is going to pay for the medications and care that they need via the nhs, if the nhs ends up much more underfunded than they are now because the economy has been destroyed so much that there is not enough employed folk to pay the taxes for it?
When all the services the councils provide grind to a halt because there arent enough taxes to pay for it.
Suddenly there are no SEN provisions, no money.
There are no social clubs for the elderly, no money
There is no taxi service for the children who have to attend school further away, no money
That expensive medication you need to survive, gone, no money
The list goes on.
Then add in 10, 15 20 years time when our kids leave school. Jobs are a minimum & the only ones who get those jobs are the "elite" of society as they are the only ones whose affluent private schooling has meant they have had the best education and therefore have better grades.
We can scream about how folk care more for money/the economy than the lives of the elderly/vulnerable all you want but the fact is very simple, no economy, no money for the country, no money for the NHS, police, fire department, schools, care homes, and on and on and on.
We need our economy up and running and we need it soon if we are going to limit the effects this shut down has had on our country services and taxes.
We cant protect the shielded, vulnerable or the elderly if the country has no money. Its that simple. No money no furlough, no money no UC, no money no disability payments etc etc.