Posted on 05/03/2020 3:04:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Older people will "rebel and risk prison" if they are forced to remain in lockdown longer while restrictions are eased, a former Tory pensions minister has warned.
Conservative peer Baroness Altmann argued such a requirement would be "age discrimination" and could cost lives as well as threaten social unrest.
Her comments come amid growing concern the over-70s could be told to isolate for longer than the rest of the population when the rules to cope with COVID-19 start to be relaxed.
The government has previously said people in this age group are especially vulnerable to coronavirus.
Speaking to Sky News' Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme, the former pensions minister said: "I certainly hope as we move out of the curent emergency phase of lockdown there won't be some kind of blanket policy to forbid people of any particular age from leaving their own homes or from being part of the community.
"Using an age-based criteria would be fundamentally wrong and actually would potentially cost the lives of many people, and risks social unrest."
"There are many over-70s who can't bear the thought of having to stay in lockdown a moment longer and have accepted it because everyone else has got to do it.
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Obviously being young and healthy it is like spinning a revolver cylinder with millions of empty chambers.
My wife and I spent a couple hours pruning bushes in the sun! Healthy and a great feeling!
My husband and I are doing the same. Happy to be out in the sunshine and doing the mowing, weeding, etc. that weather has not permitted till now. New flag on our pole next to the road waves in the breeze. We are so blessed!
Very true!
So, our founders were violating God’s word?
And those that hid Anne Frank were violating God’s word?
I don’t think that English translation of Romans 13 means what a lot of folks today think it means. ;)
Because I can. ;)
“short” is a relative term. The older you get, the shorter you realize it is.
I want to choose the battles that I will fight.
RE the masks, to me it is minor but that may have something to do with living in Manila for 6 years and often seeing people wear masks in public. It is not a big deal (but that is me.)
My governor has said that we have to close our ‘church’. That is a big deal. Starting today she will let us meet at the property and stay in our cars. I do pastor a small church and we had 3 services this morning, all small, 10 or less in attendance, social distancing, sanitizer available. Each meeting was in a different area inside the building, masks and gloves were available if people wanted. It was good to worship together again.
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