For a start, how dare we dump nine million individual human beings into a box labelled 'the elderly' with all that implies. It will say: 'The owner of this property is within the age bracket that requires his compulsory self-isolation. But tell me what's wrong with my plan — apart from the fact that it's pretty limited in its ambition. Our cells age and the older we get the more difficulties they face in dividing and renewing themselves. These are very difficult waters but, of course, the older we get the more we become reconciled to our own mortality.

Source: Daily Mail March 20, 2020 22:01 UTC