Furlough scheme - employers to get bonus

[heywood]

Moi?
Surely not 

[JenB]

the greedy older group are aged 62 upwards.

And I thought you were my friend 

[Rena]

Having weighed up all the evidence, I'm now sure that there are two groups of people to blame for this, the feckless youngsters and the greedy old people.

The feckless young group are aged 0 - 60 and the greedy older group are aged 62 upwards. The only virtuous group are the 61 year olds. Particularly those born in January - all the others are to blame in some way or other.

 

[River Tyne Lass]

Thanks Mike .. I have just realised I just fall into the feckless 'youngster' category by a year.  That has made my day. 

I usually tell others I am not a spring chicken anymore but somehow I much prefer your appraisal ..

  

[heywood]

Can I be a feckless oldie?
This week, I bought several treats on our click ‘n collect and was heard to say, ‘oh, it’s only money’. 

[groom]

I think we also have to remember that people have and still are suffering in different ways. Listening to the radio this morning there were some heartbreaking stories:

The woman who hadn't seen her mother for 4 months as she is in a Care Home and suffers from dementia. When she eventually saw her in the garden of the home this week, there was no recognition what so ever.

The mother who has a 30 year old disabled son who had gone into a respite home just before lockdown and wasn't allowed out. Although she had no complaints about how he was cared for physically, he hasn't been mentally stimulated and so now can't communicate. He doesn't understand why he'd been "abandoned".

The wife whose husband was admitted to a hospice in March having being diagnosed with cancer. She was unable to visit or be with him when he died.

Most businesses will eventually recover, lives will never return to normal for some. So please stop blaming one group or another and let's all pull together.

[JenB]

I think we also have to remember that people have and still are suffering in different ways.

Quite right.

My 36 year old daughter is spending a lot of time supporting an 88 year old family friend who has been very adversely affected by the  lockdown. He now has panic attacks and as soon as one occurs he messages my daughter. If she doesn’t reply immediately he messages her sister in law. Quite often my daughter arrives at his house to discover that her sister in law has also just arrived.
Two nights ago the attacks were so severe that they were advised to take him to A&E at the Cumberland Infirmary. My daughter got home at midnight and was up again at 3.30 a.m. to go to work. She is very distressed at some of the things he’s been saying and at her inability to help him.

[Mike in Cumbria]

the greedy older group are aged 62 upwards.

And I thought you were my friend 

And I thought you were 61 already. Feckless youngster.

[Treetotal]

Come on then Mike, own up, which club do you belong to, the Minority Feckless or the Majority Greedy. Or are you going to follow the ruling party and avoid answering the question.
Answers on a postcard please....if you belong to the second group, I can lend you a second class stamp 
Carol