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Posted: 07 Jun 2020

Taken: 22 Jul 2007

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swans in the sunset

swans in the sunset
Port Meadow, Oxford

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 Howard Somerville
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The government is under attack both for imposing the lockdown at all and for imposing it too late and then easing it too soon. They can't win.

My decision was a personal one based on the fact that I'm going to die anyway, and I wasn't prepared to waste what limited time I have left, and the fine Spring weather, by being stuck indoors for 12 or more weeks. And (as I intuited) the risks were exaggerated - the NHS was not overwhelmed (the Nightingale emergency hospitals weren't even needed) and deaths weren't in the millions.

And it was obvious to me that the NHS criteria of who was at "severe risk" were very broad-brush, one-size-fits-all ones, and based mainly on guesswork.
3 years ago. Edited 3 years ago.
 Isisbridge
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A brave and wise decision. I hope your follow-up care is not being impeded by the lockdown?
3 years ago.
 Howard Somerville
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Yes and no. My follow-up care at present consists of 3-monthly injections, done locally, which have not been impeded, and periodic blood tests and consultations at the Charing Cross Hospital which have. But for as long as the injections continue to work (which they may do for months or even years) they will be sufficient. Follow-up care for the effects of the Enterocolitis was non-existent anyway.
3 years ago. Edited 3 years ago.

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