An obvious fix for the pandemic.

[dontmissthese]

Mostly restrict oldies to home quarantine after first establishing an efficient

home delivery system for essentials. 

Let all the young ones just go for it and get the economy rolling again.

Some will die but the flu also kills at about the same rate and it's usually

people with a pre-existing condition which makes them vulnerable so what

COVID-19 doesn't get the flu will.

For the most part it will be a mild case of the flu and we having been living

this way since the Spanish Flu pandemic.

The most vulnerable group ( oldies ) will be protected until a vaccine is developed.

We would have to FaceTime our relatives. A small price to pay for the good of mostly all.

Any oldies caught outdoors without an 'effective' face mask will be stripped of excursion rights.

The alternative is sending our country broke.

If put to a vote then most oldies ( including me ) would vote yes.

[tasfleur]

I don't think there is anyone who can predict the mind processes of Government/s when it comes to long term projection .. especially where disasters like this are concerned.  It's all smoke and mirrors until hindsight reality sets in and time to pick up the pieces.

[dontmissthese]

Excuse me but I was not suggesting camps, euthanasia or anything remotely similar.
Isolating the elderly for their benefit is not Mein Kampf stuff.
Can you perhaps paste a relevent paragraph which might support your view of my OP ?

This is almost funny.
I express a view put forward by major governments and I am a crack pot. Silly people.

[lurker172602]

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@dontmissthese wrote:

The age group would be those considered most at risk.

Over 70 or 65 ( if with pre-existing conditions ).

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Just a technical question to your solution (and I use that word deliberately). Who is going to provide the separate housing for my husband and I? He being in your "lock 'em up" group, and me in the "get out and about" lot.  I take it we wouldn't be able to share accommodation in your scenario?
I'm sure you have thought this through, right?

[tasfleur]

Perhaps you should read the book yourself .. I read it when I was at university, and I'm sure you can find an English version on the internet somewhere.

I suggest you look at your wording and its implications of your thought processes.  "Locking up oldies" (and using the terminology "oldies" as a specific group to be targeted in your "solution") is appalling in my opinion) regardless of how old you are yourself.

I have seen no suggestion from Government where "oldies" should be locked up.  That is pure fabrication on your part.  All that is asked of seniors, is that they try their best to protect themselves by self isolation .. quite different from what you have posted.

[domino-710]

Only ' cosmologically speaking ' :

[rogespeed]

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@domino-710 wrote:

Only ' cosmologically speaking ' :

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Yes is true , having lodged a post thread you do not have to reply to any specific rebuttals  

[domino-710]

You'll have to explain that one ??????

Please try.

[bright.ton42]

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@dontmissthese wrote:

I express a view put forward by major governments and I am a crack pot. Silly people.

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Interesting,   which major governments would that be and please provide valid links or your comment is pure blither. 

[domino-710]

LOL - Bright - ' blither ' - broke me up.

[tasfleur]

Behold!  Thusly regarding a "blither" 

Blither, blather and blether, nouns meaning nonsensical talk; the adjectives blithering and blathering; and the Ulster nouns, bletherskite, blatherskite blethermaskite and blatherumskite talkers of raimeis, can all be traced to Old Norse blathra, to speak indistinctly. Blither is the form used in midland English. Shakespeare would have spoken of blithering fools, while across the Border Rab Burns wrote of "stringing blethers up in rhyme for fools to sing".

From the internet .....