The reason for lockdown, protecting the NHS, is long since achieved so time for everyone to get back to work. It is also time for the NHS to resume its role of protecting us, and against ALL illnesses, not just Covid 19.
I couldn't agree more, and not just back to work but back to living & spending too.
Perhaps those older/high risk people that we protected by staying home for so long now have a moral duty to repay the favour by getting their wallets out to protect the jobs of the low risk/young.
I'm sure there will be lots of indignation, but older people - many of whom own their homes outright - were by far the main beneficiaries of the lock-down, yet I didn't see any pensioners taking a 20% cut in income, or losing their income entirely, or falling into arrears on their mortgage/rent and other bills whilst struggling to turn their homes into a classroom.
Personally I feel that if you haven't suffered financially (and I include myself in this) then the very least you should be doing now is putting some money back into the economy to protect jobs. If you've nothing you can spend it on then buy some vouchers & shove them through the letterbox of someone who can use them.
What a load of rubbish.
We have been prisoners in our own homes and will will continue to be so until such times as a vaccine is produced and we are protected. Covid is not going away, it will still be there and as your life gets back to some level of normality for millions of others ours will not.
As for getting our wallets out, that is the most idiotic statement I have read, what do you think that we have been doing for the last 25 years, since the financial crash in the 90’s. Our savings have eroded in value by way of low interest rates just so you folks with their mortgage, new cars, twice a year holidays abroad etc not to mention all the luxuries at home can have the lifestyle you think that you deserve.
Try living on a State Pension to see how that feels and to experience the lifestyle that results.
As an oldie I see the generations below mine behaving like idiots, flouting guidance and making little attempt to social distance.
All they care about it me, me, me with the exception of those who are in the caring professions and key industries.
So how about thinking of others and not yourselves, I did so working in the NHS for 25 years, so this oldie has more that done their bit for the inconsiderate generations.