It is stupid and they are ignorant. I am disabled. I got up to go to work one morning and my legs gave way. I was diagnosed with GBS and the lumbar puncture showed it was a virus I caught. That was in 1987 and I was 46. I am still disabled. Over the years it went up my body from my feet. I was very ill indeed, and every year something was added. All through that time I was nursed and helped by my late husband. My sisters could not understand how someone could be walking one day and fighting for life the next. I think they are still sceptical. I do not know. I do not see them. They were not the only ones. How can you explain why you need a wheelchair? I try not to think about the horrid things I have had said and done to me, as though that will shame me into being whole again.
If your neighbours think the rules do not apply to them, it is their risk and so long as you stay away from them you will be safe.
Perhaps after this viruses will be treated seriously. Perhaps people with think twice about going into care homes, and ever retirement housing, especially flats. There is no NHS in care homes. They even pay for the local GP. Care home owners pay it and pass it to residents. All notes have DNR on them. When they are sick they do not receive treatment from qualified NHS nurses. Those who care for them - and who have not been given PPE - are trained to wash, dress, feed etc, and at the lowest pay. They do not know how to nurse in sickness and residents do not receive proper treatment for illnesses, nor do hospitals admit them. Now there must be questions as to whether care home owners are liable for the deaths for not supplying adequate protection for staff and residents.
