Reply To: Show us zee papers.. Passports of your not coming in ever….

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Citing Toby Young does nothing to further an argument either, when he has been discredited by multiple sources on just about any topic on which he gets paid by “think tanks” on which to present an opinion; he was (rightly) prevented from running a school and from being a government advisor, when his homophobic, misogynistic and downright dangerous views on eugentics came to light.

The main problem comes down to this:

Participating in activities *may* increase your risk and put your loved ones at risk. And if that was where it ended, there wouldn’t be much more said about it. There are other viruses, spread through behavioural activity, that we accept a risk for.

But coronavirus is spread by simply *breathing the same air* as someone who has it. There is no way that you can limit the risk to just “you and yours”. If you catch coronavirus and are infectious, you could pass it on to anyone who simply breathes the same air as you. If you’re out in public, there is no way to control or limit who breathes the same air as you, other than to prevent people from mixing together.

And *that* is why governments around the world had put such draconian measures in place – because it’s not just about each individual mitigating their own personal risk. Indeed, if that were even possible, we wouldn’t have needed resstrictions in the first place. It’s about preventing people *passing it on to others unwittingly*.

In the 1950s, there was a national programme to vaccinate against polio. It killed less than 700 people a year. It’s not all about deaths – it’s about preventing unnecessary illness, long term poor health and trying to stop the hospitals being clogged up with critically ill patients. Preventing deaths is a small part of the strategy. In the first few months of the pandemic *every non-emergency operation* was cancelled for two months; that backlog still exist – hospitals are still routinely cancelling operations because of a lack of capacity; not a lack of staff, but a lack of beds.