Yes I was and am asking MM to put a value on life. I ask because (revealingly?) he wont do that, and because it is indeed a very, very, very difficult question. My answer is lockdown was better than the alternatives and that I feel deeply uncomfortable when people are told they have to take the risk of getting this virus.
I'm 62, I work in a school - sometimes with student, but mostly outdoors. What risk should I be made to take? That is the question I ask MM but in a different form. I guess my risk is, I dunno, if I catch it, 1-3% of dying, if people start spreading it my risk of catching it will rise from close to negligible now to ...I don't know! But, MM wants us to go back to work - what risk of losing my life does he think I should take? 2%, 5%, 10%, 25%? I doubt he'll answer. What risk would he take (he wont say).
I'll also say I get the argument I'm 'getting paid to do nothing' (though most people is school are working to some extent - I will be tomorrow if in isolation). Fwiw, I've been careful enough that I, perhaps, could manage without work but I also enjoy my job and wouldn't like to lose it. It's any coercion I don't like and it's (that damn question again) how much risk is it fair to ask people to take???????
Fwiw I don't think the lockdown is causing death so much as people's fear of going to the hospital and catching C19 is.
Originally Posted by: Devonian