Are under 30s Putting over 50s at Risk by Ignoring Coronavirus Rules? | Good Morning Britain

emily if we can come to you on this uh because of course you are part of that generation that nicola sturgeon is squarely pointing the finger out and saying how worried she is and and the pictures of the the young people not socially distancing makes her want to cry what's your reaction to what she had to say well then do you know what makes me want to cry the job opportunities that young people aren't going to be able to get because of kovit i think young people really have the bad end of the deal here i mean a lot of grads now can't get jobs are now having to f fork out for masters and um i think young people are in a really difficult position and at the end of the day only two percent of covert deaths came from people under the age of 50 and a lot of those death were people who had underlying health conditions so less at risk um youngsters are aware of that and obviously going to face a very tough time and i've had a very tough time in lockdown we know that but does it mean though that they should flout the rules on social distancing that's the problem isn't it because then the entire communities as risk because they may not be at risk of dying so much as others but they are posing a risk of passing it on well some of these young people are students who may live with other students and obviously they are not in households with vulnerable people but i think it does come down to personal responsibility for example if a young person knows that they live with someone vulnerable then um that is something that they have to consider but at the end of the day we are at a point now where people under the age of 40 are more likely to die in a car crash are we going to say that people under the age of 40 now can't go out and drive well we want to avoid that too don't we that's the truth of it all um what do you think about this uh sarah you um you volunteered your own views on it on twitter didn't you and sorry foolishly well you say foolishly there was a reaction wasn't there to what you said talk us through that i think it's about it i don't think it's really about age i think it's about health and i think that but i mean you know my view is that um i think i agree with emily and i think their generation is suffering actually quite a lot from this because as she says you know that they are the ones who are going to have to to an extent you know live with the consequences um the balance is trying to you need to try and find a balance between protecting people's health and protecting the future of the country and that is incredibly difficult to do um uh my view is that i you know i i i'm 53 uh 50 year olds are sort of the financial backbone of the country and also the social backbone we look after the children and we look after our parents and if we have to sort of stop i think it's going to be very difficult for everyone not just for us um and i think really if they're the financial backbone and the social backbone shouldn't they be protected shouldn't the younger people shouldn't emily and her sort of friends and and um peers shouldn't they be taking that a bit more seriously because if we want to get to the point where they can get back to work and the graduates can get their jobs we need to combat the virus yes but but but as emily says the risk is is relatively low um i think it's about health and i think that the truth is there are lots of um you know 70 year olds who are incredibly fit and lots of some girls who are not very fit and the same is true across the age group now the thing is for me my mother for example had it she was 73 she was very ill for a week but she's a very healthy person she managed to recover very successfully it is a very odd virus it it it seems to you know we don't still really don't understand how it affects people and i think age is perhaps not quite the right marker to use and i think it should be more about individual health um you know we all have gps our doctors all know whether we're in good shape or not i think that is something that we should think about doing trying to trying to find a way of of individuals establishing whether they have personal risks that they need to worry about and then taking taking action you know rather than just saying you're this yeah in that group and you need to do this because i think i think that is very difficult um as to the 30s i i feel for them a little bit actually i have to say and and and you know i agree they should i think by and large they are being quite careful i mean i do think we see these images of people you know congregating but i think it's a minority you know i most 30 year olds and below i know are actually behaving okay in responsible way let's go to errol because errol when when this all started the the rhetoric from the government certainly was we're all in this together now of course that tone has changed over the last few months as things have developed and actually what sarah's suggesting doesn't seem ridiculous does it why not have a more bespoke system whereby you are assessed on your individual needs rather than a big blanket ban on where everybody should go just purely because that's the easiest way of dealing with things yeah but you have to think of it this way because i'm an employer i'm over 50 i think i'm quite responsible but at the same time it does kind of shock me how many people um just flaunt and just go out and they don't social distance but every single day i think it's important for people to understand uh at this stage to single out you know people over 50 i think is ridiculous anyway um because i'm the that person on the end of the phone and saying to somebody who is younger than me or working for me why aren't you at work you know the main thing is to kind of get out there and work but at the same time i think it's very unjust to segregate uh people of that age um sarah just to read out your tweet if you can bear it um one of the things i think people um reacted to was this we you said we all have to die sooner or later if i get covered in carpets so be it my time has come i've had a good life better than most in this world at any rate i certainly don't expect the entire nation to bankrupt itself to save me very slightly differently but you know what i mean um and i suppose that sense that that a lot of people have that we maybe have to have as we try to balance kind of getting on with our lives getting on with our livelihoods and protecting lives around us um it is that sort of attitude of oh well i go for it is about someone that hasn't directly seen the effects of it and i think that's what people worry about about youngsters because they're less at risk because maybe they haven't come into contact with it they are thinking oh i just need to get out and have some fun and be young and maybe not seeing the risk i mean that that tweet what i was trying to say was that i personally feel that i have a duty to carry on working in order to to go back to work monday was go back to work day i feel i feel i need to do that because you know i have a responsibility to the next generation that's how i feel personally um i you know i as it happened i was very very ill with swine flu which was the last pandemic and you know so i do have some experience of it and the truth is that what i think is that you can't eliminate risk completely um i would never put anyone else in danger i wear my mask i do my social distancing i do all of that stuff but as far as i'm concerned me personally i feel that i you know it is a it is just one of those things i've just got to get get on with doing the things that i do looking after my children looking after my parents going to work paying my taxes contributing to the count the economy to keep to keep things moving um i don't you know i had no desire to catch covert and be incredibly ill with it but i've you know i've i've done all the things that i can do to protect myself i've lost a lot of weight recently i'm very i tried you know doing my how being healthy doing all the things which is what we all need to do we all need to try and take a bit of responsibility do our very best as as individuals to protect ourselves to to protect the nhs to make sure that we you know are in the best possible position individually physically health-wise to combat this thing we need to find a way of living with this very unpleasant threat that we have yeah and that's unfortunately you know it's not it's not a good yeah i would like to say that wasn't the case but but it is the case that is the harsh reality of this okay um that's all emily we're getting lots of messages from our viewers this morning um not particularly sympathetic to your course i have to say kerry says i'm sick of hearing these youngsters moan about lockdown try thinking about the elderly and care homes have passed or without their families with them and haven't been able to see any members of their family stop being selfish follow the rules it's really not that difficult to social distance or to wear a mask what do you say to people like kerry well firstly i'd like to say it's a bit of an assumption that young people haven't had experiences with kobe and i personally volunteered on a covered ward so i got to see it firsthand and i think one of the biggest problems is um by seeing that so so that i mean it's fantastic and and good for you for doing that i mean it's brilliant you did that did that change your approach to how you're behaving since having had that experience do you think that you are maybe more responsible than some of your friends because you have seen firsthand how debilitating it is well i think it's a balance i think obviously trying um social distance as much as you can and stick to the rules but i think it is important to also um invest back into the economy so we can keep funding the nhs and i think this 50 percent off that risky sunac has um has offered is a really great opportunity for young people who may see meals out as a luxury to uh do their bit in investing in the economy and i think it is time for youngsters to get back out there and have some fun thanks richie yeah well i i think there's a lot of feeling in all ages about doing that isn't there what about some of the irresponsible gatherings we've seen like in london there were some 500 illegal raves where which isn't people can't really social distance of those events they certainly weren't reportedly from the police social distancing do you think that's the problem that sort of you know youngsters go out take it carefully initially and then the feeling of just being free takes over but i think that's one of the kind of side effects to having a lockdown people do feel frustrated they feel cooped up and you know it does have an effect on everyone's mental health and throughout um the locked down time people were just getting more and more frustrated and that's what resulted in and of course i do not condone that and it's completely wrong and there are other ways to deal with it and it's a really great move to see the gyms have been back open so people can let off some steam for example and i think it is a small minority that are kind of letting the calls down and of course the media are going to focus on that minority um amir's uh khan is our doctor this week and he's been sitting listening to that i'm hearing some various opinions there amir but how do you feel when you hear what emily was just saying there about you know she's had frontline experience she went and volunteered on a covid ward and yet she's still celebrating the fact that rishi sonek is allowing people to go out and get stuck into socializing and entertaining and yeah i think it's great that she's volunteered on a on a covid ward i've had a lot of first-hand experience i've had conversations with husbands wives daughters sons when their relatives have died in care homes and and i i can't tell you how awful that is i've had to do it over the phone rather than in person which makes it twice as hard really difficult for me but so much harder for them and when you've had those conversations when you've spoken to relatives when you've seen the devastation it can cause in people's lives you wouldn't be behaving like this you know we all have a responsibility it's difficult to point the finger at under 30. i don't think that's fair we all have a responsibility but to say well we've had enough we need to go out and socialize if you've seen what i've seen you just wouldn't be doing that at all um one last message here uh errol you maybe could respond and this is really important as well for a lot of our younger viewers and emily and her friends casey's saying please don't tire all the youngsters being reckless and breaking the walls i have three under 22s in my household they haven't once gone out without masks or broken any rules the vast majority of young people are doing their best aren't they they are desperately trying to adhere to what they're being told to do however when you see the fact that there were 500 illegal raids in london even the somerset council had to i couldn't break up a 3 000 person rave that happened down on an old raf field there were young people gathering they weren't just young people there of course there are still and too many people it feels like taking too many risks yeah and i think um um so awful because they don't think about um going home because yes i've got three kids and they've they've been sticking by the rules i've got 47 um team as in people who work for me they're sticking by the rules i've got a team and i've got b team and i try to say to them you can't hug you can't um say hello in that way social distance and i think the main thing is that everybody has to adhere by the rules and make sure we're not going to spread this virus but i think it's really important to say that at absolutely at the moment for people to start talking about age as in 50 and 30 of now four months on is just a little bit ridiculous you

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Published: Tue Aug 04 2020