I sympathise Weaver, but the government won’t force anybody to go back to work. Economic necessity may compel people to choose to return to work, but you can’t blame that on the government. Govt cannot continue forever to bankroll people who are not working, as that would require an infinite amount of borrowing.
My understanding is that the plan all along was, during the lulls between the multiple waves of infection that we can expect to see, when the statistical risk is low, the government will allow people to go back to work, if they so choose. When it gets too risky again, people will most probably be told for a while to stop going to work again until that wave passes, and so the cycle will repeat. The BBC will of course scream that “The Government keeps changing its mind!”, just laugh when that happens.
I personally share your caution. Both of us here also have several health conditions that significantly increase the statistical risk, even though we don’t qualify as ‘highly vulnerable’. For that reason we intend to continue quarantining ourselves until the pandemic is over, maybe a year or two, and even during the lulls when govt says we don’t have to do so. That is our choice, and govt won’t take it away, but we will have to finance that choice out of our own pockets.
