Deaths of Covid-19 are overwhelmingly concentrated among the elderly. But now there is a new eagerness to blame young adults trying to live their lives in a normal way for the possible resurgence of the disease. With minimal actual evidence, we are told those under the age of 30 are not socially distancing and, worse still, are actually going out and enjoying themselves with the result that they will bring the virus home to, as Matt Hancock put it, ‘kill granny’.
What is clear is that while some young people (as well as older ones) are flouting the rules, many aren’t. Young adults who would normally and reasonably be out enjoying themselves at this unique time of life have had this pleasure removed from them by a virus they did not cause or ask for. A-Level students have been let down by a government which initially punished them for not being able to sit their exams.
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