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14/04/20
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Originally posted by madamswer:
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"Good luck to any politician trying to sell keeping people aged 70 plus in lockdown to that age group. Everyone else is free to carry on as per usual, but you can spend what little active time you have left in home detention. I suspect many would prefer to die than accede to that directive." That view, like just about 95% of the discussion on this issue, provides no accounting for the consequences - expected and unintended - of effectively locking the entire citizenry down for an indeterminate period. My sentiment barometer observations indicate to me that people are already saying, "Ah, stuff it. This is BS. I'm heading out." My wife has a friend who mans the phones at Lifeline. Usually a clam lady, "frenetic and desperate" is how she describes her sessions over the weekend. And that's even before the car repayments and the cutting back on the supermarket spend start to kick in. .
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My post certainly didn't carry the implication that other people should be locked down indefinitely. Simply that any attempt to impose it on an age denominated basis won't fly. Reaper