UK:Elderly could be quarantined for four months in 'wartime-style' mobilisation to combat corona

[HipChick]

People over 70 will be instructed by the government to stay in strict isolation at home or in care homes for four months, under a "wartime-style" mobilisation effort by the government likely to be enforced within the next 20 days.

It is part of a series of measures being prepared by the prime minister, health secretary, chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser to prevent the health service from "falling over" and to save lives as Covid-19 becomes an epidemic in the UK.

Other measures already being planned include:

the forced requisitioning of hotels and other buildings as temporary hospitals;
the requisitioning of private hospitals as emergency hospitals;
temporary closure of pubs, bars and restaurants - some time after next weekend's ban on mass gatherings;
emergency manufacture by several companies of respirators that would be necessary to keep alive those who become acutely ill;
the closure of schools for perhaps a few weeks, but with skeleton staff kept on to provide childcare for key workers in the NHS and police.

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-14/elderly-to-be-quarantined-for-four-months-in-wartime-style-mobilisation-to-combat-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR0Xk3iquiDsCLBftIEQ6KUl9VOfAP1P9QVR217SneU61gf3p51aLYta9Dw

[Merlot]

1. What are they doing about feeding these people?

and getting them their medical treatments and prescriptions?


People can't just hibernate for 4 months, they still have needs and still need to pay the bills.

[marybourg]

2. And people of that age frequently have many

more needs than young people. I, for instance, can only eat specific foods and specific brands and types of those foods

[dweller]

3. the elderly are not the problem

as they are not going out en masses to spread the virus..
their grandkids on the other hand ...

stay the fuck home ... or be prepared to be on the mass burial brigade
for your beloved nanas and papas

sorry, not sorry ... have a reese's

✌🏼

[crickets]

4. This is in direct contrast to another article recently published:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/boris-johnson-turned-britain-petri-130300274.html

The ITV article sounds much more sensible, if bafflingly too slow and too late. Good luck to them.