Originally Posted by
inOban
So some posters choose to live their lives as normal. In the course of this they may become infected. They will not know for a week, and even then as young and fit they may have few or no symptoms and may be genuinely unaware that they are infectious. Over their infectious phase they are likely to have passed it on to a hundred or more other people, some of whom for reasons of age, health or genetics become seriously ill, possibly for
for months.
No man is an island, etc.
No, because those who were worried about being infected due to “age, health or genetics” would take responsibility for their health and well-being and would either take themselves out of society or accept the risk based on that knowledge.
If everyone else passes it onto 100 people who have decided not to take themselves out of society, either because of their age, the fact they don’t have an underlying health condition, aren’t fat or have just accepted the risk, we will reach herd immunity far quicker. That’s a positive.
Unfortunately, given that a third of the U.K. population is obese, I know it’s a tough ask for people to take responsibility for their health. Maybe I live with rose tinted glasses on, believing the general population could possess the common sense and discipline to take ownership of their health and not rely on a fat man in a suit to tell them what they can and can’t do. If only.