- Re: "Older people will 'rebel and risk prison' if forced to be locked down longer" Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron
on May 3, 2020, 1:40 pm, in reply to ""Older people will 'rebel and risk prison' if forced to be locked down longer" "
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"It's probably true though." -According to the opinion polls the "force of the lockdown is strong": "Fewer than one in five of the British public believe the time is right to consider reopening schools, restaurants, pubs and stadiums. The findings, in a new poll for the Observer, suggest Boris Johnson will struggle to convince people to return their lives to normal if he tries to ease the lockdown soon. The poll by Opinium, taken between Wednesday and Friday last week, found 17% of people think the conditions have been met to consider reopening schools, against 67% who say they have not been, and that they should stay closed. Opposition to reopening restaurants and pubs – and allowing mass gatherings in sports and other stadiums to resume – is even higher. Just 11% of people think the time is right to consider reopening restaurants, while 78% are against. Only 9% believe it would be correct to consider reopening pubs, while 81% are against; 7% say it would be right to allow mass gatherings at sports events or concerts to resume, with 84% against." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/02/fearful-britons-oppose-lifting-lockdown-schools-pubs-restaurants-opinium-poll -It doesn't give a breakdown on age but I suspect the number will be even firmer considering they are more at risk. the main issue appears to be proposals "... if over 70s are forced to endure a longer lockdown than younger generations" which according to the idiotic Baroness Altmann would be "age discrimination": Well, yes it is: so do we sue the virus or legislate against the virus discriminating by age? |