@Letsgetgoing123 I already told you what I suggest as an alternative. People die of many things every year. Some preventable, some not. Unless you are going to lockdown everyone and make everyone's life as important as the next persons, then all those who aren't vulnerable or elderly should have been carrying on with their lives. Even shielding wasn't mandatory nor should it be. Let people be responsible for themselves.
I lost my dad to seasonal flu 4 years ago. He clearly caught that at work from someone who'd had it passed to them from someone else etc etc until it reached my dad who had copd. And he died. He had the flu jab every year, but it doesn't protect against every single strain.
But have we ever locked down for seasonal flu even though it kills hundreds of thousands of people of ALL ages ever year worldwide?? No. Have we insisted those who have flu symptoms need to isolate for 14 days?? No. Have we told people they must not visit family? No. Because there would be public outcry. Everyone carries on going to work or school or the pub and spreads it around and only now when people have had the wits scared out of them by the government, only now when people are told to take responsibility for infecting others, only now do people care. Because they've been frightened by instant death of their loved ones and threatened with ridiculous fines simply for being the social animals that they are.
And before anyone tells me covid isn't flu, I KNOW. I'm using it as an example of a virus that kills thousands each year in the uk alone.
I have two relatives who have had their cancer treatment stopped. They are more terrified of dying from that than of covid.
My 95yo neighbour has had visitors throughout lockdown. She flatly refused to be mollycoddled by the government and have her rights to live a sociable life with her family removed. She told me she'd lived through the war and polio and smallpox and so many other things, and the country never ground to a halt to protect the vulnerable then so why should it now? Last Monday are tested positive for covid. She was admitted to hospital on Wednesday and was discharged last night. I called her to ask how she was, did she need anything. She laughed and said 'I've had worse colds..'
Lockdown will NEVER eradicate the virus.
And while the lives of people like my DD mean nothing as long as the majority can hunker down and stay safe, then we most certainly aren't all in this together.