At this stage in the pandemic its unacceptable to ask any group to stay at home, especially if its based on age. When all this started, it was completely out of the blue and we needed to take extreme measures, which is why we all needed to stay home as much as possible. But we have had 8 months to devise a method of managing outbreaks, and have clearly failed miserably. The UK can't track cases properly, we can't provide adequate support for people who can't isolate because of their circumstances and we are encouraged to demonise groups we see as breaking the rules.
The only reasons we are being asked to stay indoors is to limit the impact on the NHS. We shouldn't delude ourselves that the government cares whether we individually catch this disease, their objective is to keep numbers within what a cash starved NHS can manage. As a money grabbing leftie, I'd quite like to see adequate funding for the NHS to manage this crisis properly, and a working T&T system.
Please be aware I'm not advocating lifting all the rules, not at all, but confining people to their homes because of governmental inadequacies in just not on.