Was I being dramatic?

I would say the decision to seed our care homes with 25k transferees from hospital has cost us badly and we would probably be looking Germany type numbers were it not for that catastrophic error of judgement. We exposed the one group that we should really have protected.

That has absolutely the square root of fuck all to do with the general public going to the beach/doing the conga/whatever else. However, the narrative is still extraordinarily aggressive to people who just want to get on and live their lives.

I have one client who is a self employed builder. He stopped working for 6 weeks, but had to go back to work - he needed to feed his family. He got messages from strangers on Facebook telling him he was putting his family's life at risk. I have another client who runs a small dry cleaning business - they mainly target the corporate market (they go office to office to collect and return clothes). He's been on the phone in tears as his business is in ruins and there is no way back. I think narrative and tone are really important, and the way it has been ratcheted by many on the Internet towards 'lockdown until the virus is gone' is quite harmful, and ignores the many casualties of lockdown.

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