So how would it work? DH is 66 and overweight. I'm 45 and overweight but presumably wouldn't have to shield due to being younger and female and would therefore have to go out to work. We can't shield from each other (and wouldn't anyway) so surely it wouldn't make a great deal of difference other than DH no longer being able to work and losing his customer base.
Yes, what about the children of ECV parents? Would they be forced to live apart from their mother / father? For how long? Seems a bit reminiscent of nastier bits of history. Or alternatively the whole family shields and children of vulnerable parents miss out on education every other child is getting - and the same would be true of vulnerable children. (which is probably a breach of their human right to education when there has been literally no attempt to fund schools to open in a covid secure way)
How about funding schools to implement SD and everywhere else and everyone just doing it. SD and masks has worked over the summer, it's only now rates are going up, now schools are open as normal non-SD I think everyone's given up a bit. Plus testing appears to be falling over.
In other countries where schools, workplaces, everywhere has done SD and masks with good testing they've kept rates low, deaths low. Look at S Korea. That's what we should be aiming for not classing some people as second class citizens, and children as second class children not afforded the education other children are getting.
Keeping infection levels low protects the vulnerable, protects the NHS, allows the economy to stay open and avoids loads of deaths. Other countries have done it, why can't we?