Trying to fight disease and tackle public health crises isn't generation snowflake, its what Alexander Fleming and Louis Pasteur were doing when they made discoveries that revolutionised medicine.

Generation snowflake is moaning that you can't go out to get smashed with your mates and saying if I get it it will just be like flu who cares about the older generation.

Did either of those guys propose turning the nation into a police state during their fight?

Individuals getting intercepted on the Isle of Man, Government being able to monitor your movements through your phone and punish you accordingly... be careful what you wish for.

No but the previous pandemics had seen that sort of response from authorities. During the plague houses with infected people were boarded up with watchmen appointed to make sure nobody broke isolation.

I do agree that the government's approach of extending these emergency powers for 2 years is concerning, given that Boris himself seems to be claiming we can turn the tide within 12 weeks. It seems more sensible to me to take these powers for 6 months and have them subject to review in Parliament at that time. I suspect part of the agenda here is wanting to have powers in place to cover the period from January next year when the Brexit transition period ends.

12 months minimum of on/off lockdowns, similar to what we are entering apparently.

I would say it looks like very little sport until probably spring next year, and with that, probably the death of RL as we know it.

Also, on a more serious note, I'd say it's also going to lead to the biggest period of austerity and recession anybody will have ever known and will probably be responsible for far more death in the long term than this virus will cause.

Here is a good article from the BBC this morning. Essentially it raises the point that Dita has made by asking how many of the deaths from Coronavirus would have occurred in any case (in the older population). Its a short jump from there to saying the economic effects have to be balanced against these 'excess deaths'. That's a difficult moral dilemma. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51979654

Here is a good article from the BBC this morning. Essentially it raises the point that Dita has made by asking how many of the deaths from Coronavirus would have occurred in any case (in the older population). Its a short jump from there to saying the economic effects have to be balanced against these 'excess deaths'. That's a difficult moral dilemma. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51979654