Covid 19 Part XXIII-33,444 in ROI(1,792 deaths) 9,541 in NI(577 deaths)(22/09)Read OP

Roger_007 wrote: »

Those elderly people have lived through many threats and dangers and are probably prepared to enjoy the rest of their lives as best they can despite perceived risks. I have some elderly relatives and the general attitude amongst them is that they absolutely resent being referred to as ‘vulnerable’. One in particular told me that the “NPHET shower” should be thrown out and replaced by people who are a minimum of 70 years old.
I think that unless you are of a certain age you just do not understand the way the elderly view illness and death. They realise that they are going to die relatively soon of something or other. In the meantime they just want to enjoy whatever time is left for them, be it long or short.
Making their lives a misery in the hopes that things can return to ‘normal’ sometime in the future does not make much sense to them. The way the elderly are being treated by society over the last few months would, in pre-Covid times, be rightly regarded as elder abuse.

Elderly are more vulnerable to to the virus, this is just a scientific fact. Being “insulted” by a scientific fact is silly. An awful lot of people Seem to be using their emotional reaction to information as a way of venting their subjective leanings.

If you are elderly and don’t care about your health do what you want. But dont presume all elderly people represent your views. Also remember if you end up getting COVID because you aren’t careful you are more likely to stress the public health system.

It really is remarkable how selfish and impatient people are with regards to this. It’s only been a few months and you’d swear we were locked in our homes listening out for planes to drop bombs on us. To the majority, it’s a case of being asked to reduce your luxuries for an extended period of time. Right now people can still meet other people and go out, just in a prohibited fashion.

No doubt somebody will take a “you can’t say that” approach to some of my comments; but I can say it because it’s objectively accurate. What I do and how I manage myself during this pandemic may have a significant impact on others, that’s just a fact. If I choose to suit myself because I’m only interested in what suits me, I’m just being selfish and lieing to myself to make me feel like anything I do or decide to do is justified.

Most of us at some stage justify whatever we want to do when it suits us but this is a national level emergency. It’s just because it’s painfully slow moving , that it can be hard to understand that what we do today and the measures brought in today are to help us in a few weeks. The numbers today do not necessarily reflect where we will be in a few weeks.

Put what you think about them aside for the moment, The decisions being made by government are not perfect , nor should we expect perfection. (They can do much better, just making a general point). They are trying to balance economic and health issues , which does somewhat explain the disparity of measures across counties and in things like schools/airports etc.

If everybody just took care of themselves and were responsible we wouldn’t need as many measures, it really is that simple.