Covid 19 Part XXIV-37,063 ROI (1,801 deaths) 12,886 NI (582 deaths) (02/10) Read OP

JDD wrote: »

I'm in my mid-40's. I have long since accepted that I am not a "young person" in the colloquial sense the word. Perhaps a "young person" is everyone who is not considered "elderly". If so, that's a relief. Why is there no "middle aged person" definition?

And can we stop the "young people" bashing for five minutes? A third of the working population continued to work even in the worst part of the lockdown. Those people were mostly 20-somethings, working in warehouses and supermarkets and shops and takeaways and factories and delivery vans etc. My cousin works in a bank call centre, and continued to travel into work every day on public transport, with her employer not making a jot of effort to separate desks or impose any kind of changes to minimise her chances of catching the virus. She rents a three bed house with four flatmates, three of whom were also continuing to work outside the house every day.

If that's her life, where she and her peer group are exposed to the virus way more than us comfortable WFH-ers, is it any wonder that them meeting up with their friends in a pub on a Friday night doesn't seem like it's vastly increasing their risks of catching the virus?