My mate spent time with a dog who might have been walking past ASDA at the same time that a man drove past who had an ex girlfriend who once shared a pizza cutter with somebody who might have COVID.
So, just in case, we have wrecked the economy, brought down the airline industry, hospitality, entertainment. City centres are deserted, causing devastation to those businesses that serve them. We’ve switched to online shopping (massive amounts of packaging materials). You can’t get married, or have visitors to the house. Kids had exams cancelled.
We’ve ruined mental health, dragged thousands of new university students into halls of residence and told them to stay indoors for a fortnight, taken their money and expected them to prop up the universities.
Because, yes, the virus mainly kills much older people, and you don’t know who else it might kill. Everyone knows somebody who might be vulnerable and they don’t fit the demographics.
I listened to radio 4 today and heard a lady question when she can see her eighty something year old father, who has Alzheimer’s. The answer ‘it’s really hard, but you want him to stay alive.’
I wasn’t entirely sure she agreed, but they didn’t give her right to reply. Stay alive with Alzheimer’s? Without visitors?
Why?