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Believe me the tories would like nothing better than just to open out society fully and say its just the old folks this is killing so lets shield them but everyone else crack on.... but there is a problem with that.

If it starts killing loads of elderly people they lose votes, literally. Also if they just let huge amounts of young people go around infected it will overwhelm the NHS in no time and increase cases of long covid and other health complications. It's not true that the young just brush off covid, its causing serious and long term issues for a number of young people. I saw on the news last night some poor guy in his 20s who is absolutely done in still weeks after covid had passed.

All we can do is trust in science. a vaccine will be wide spread by the spring hopefully, but that wont be the end. We will be living with social distancing/masks/working from home for a long time to come yet. In fact the era of crowded offices might be finished for good now.