I too feel uneasy about mandatory health policies, albeit I understand the call to 'save the NHS' from a potential deluge of seriously ill people suffering from covid. But where might that stop? There seem to be some police-state like policies happening already around the world today.

Will it next be argued that given the epidemic of obesity the UK has suffered from over the last decade and more, which is reportedly costing the NHS billions£, will there be a call for mandtory diets for those with a BMI over 25, or whatever the BMI figure is? Of course obesity isn't physically contagious, but it could be argued that it's culturally contagious, if one's peers (family, friends, fellow workers, etc.)are fat.

Maybe we'll see weighing machines on street corners, at entrances to pubs and clubs, with 'speak-my-weight' seats on taxis, buses and trains!! We need to be carefully that mandatory health policies don't become the thin-end-of-the-wedge (no pun intended).