[Margaret Pilkington]

Of course it matters....when a government remove freedoms based on something that is inaccurate in diagnosing something we are led to believe is going to cull ridiculous numbers of the population.....remember those predictions of 4000 deaths every day.

The deaths that occurred were mainly in the elderly, the infirm and those with other serious health issues.
The average age of deaths in these people was 82 years....this country has and average life expectancy of 82 years.

We have gone far beyond the protection of the vulnerable.
Far beyond protecting the NHS....and still we are not released from house arrest.
Since when has it been sensible to quarantine the well?

If we look back to the beginning of this situation......those who were suspected of having this infection were put into District General hospitals for their care.....many patients went into hospital for other things and contracted The virus....not from their carers, but from other patients being treated in wards that shared the same air conditioning/ heating ducts.

Elderly patients were released back to care homes without the homes being notified that they were infectious.
PPE was woefully short for these care homes too....and I know that you know this because you too are in the caring orofesdion(if my memory serves me right).
So lots of governmental mistakes were made....and it was put down to an ‘unprecedented situation’....so we are supposed to let that go are we?
What galls me is that statistics were produced all the way through the early days, with very little in the way of frames of reference....we were given manipulated data....data that was calculated to scare people.
Deaths within 28 days of a positive test(that test that is not suitable as a diagnostic tool) were recorded as deaths from the virus. This was regardless of the actual cause!
I personally know of at least three people who tested negative, but had Covid recorded as the cause of death....why would the public be misled in this manner if there was not some sort of agenda.
From October the ONS stats no longer recorded pneumonia or flu deaths....they were rolled into the Covid figures.....so Covid recording meant that for the flu season there were zero deaths....never before recorded.

As for the burden being on the young...I do not agree that they have borne the brunt of this virus...but there is no doubt in my mind that they will in the future.
Everyone has borne some privation as a result of this virus and the government handling of it....those who have heart disease, those who have cancer and have missed not just follow ups, but vital treatment.....those who had to say solitary goodbyes to the people they lost...not necessarily from the virus.
The education lost, the business lost, the self esteem lost, the mental heath compromised.
All for a virus that has a recovery on 99.3%.
Any death is lamentable....but there will be many more deaths....Not from Covid, but from the consequences of how we dealt with it.