
Despite early promise the Government’s handling of the global, world-wide, international pandemic was shambolic. The policy to move the elderly out of hospitals and back into their care homes to free up beds for normal people was sound but there was insufficient follow up. We believe the Government vastly underestimated the people’s appetite to isolate older members of society away from sight (and smell). This has always been more than 2 meters. All that would have been needed to protect these sites was to turn them into ‘Gated Communities for the Elderly’, with 24 hr sentries and on-site cemmeteries ensuring that, once and for all, when you go in, you never come out.