Quote Originally Posted by Mike T View Post
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk

Almost 3,000 cases today, 756 in hospital, 69 on ventilators, 124 admissions. Sure, "only" 2 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. Winter, especially Xmas/New Year, will be the real test. All that bug mixing - there used to be huge numbers of admissions at that time of year of chest infection after chest infection, mostly seemingly picked up at the seasonal get togethers. Do we ban grandparents from these celebrations? I am not talking about government action, but personally, what do we do? The risk of succumbing to Covid is 1,000 fold at 85 what it is at 25. My older folk are in Oz, and we have not seen each other for decades, so the issue will not concern me, but it will many others. And the risk in the mid 60s is high enough - 100 fold that at 25.
To come back to my previous assertion, we need to consider an age stratified response. Anyone over 60 needs to consider low level precautions and anyone over 80 needs to think of avoiding large groups of younger people or at least accept the risks of doing so. We need to shift from global enforcement of disease avoidance to personal responsibility for disease avoidance according to personal risk indicators.