Wednesday, 22 April 2020

Fatties Could Escape Isolation Before Fitties



Apparently I am likely to face months, even a year or more, of isolation from my children and grandchildren because I am over 70. I am 75 and take no medication. My blood pressure is 117/68, heart rate 62 and BMI 23.  I walk about 5 miles every day, can run short distance, tend my garden and often finish the times cryptic crossword by 0930. I have never had an influenza jab and cannot remember ever having been incapacitated by that virus. On the other hand, a 69 year old couch-bound sloth, being the other side of an arbitrary line, may be permitted to come and go as he pleases. Here is surely a role for technology? I should be very happy to surrender all my personal electronic data, particularly my Google Fit records, if that sacrifice permitted a more flexible isolation regime for me and many others who consider it a fundamental social responsibility to keep themselves in shape. Give us an electronic health passport on our mobile phones or, better still, a biometric ID Card then those who are neither a danger to themselves or those with whom they interact may resume some semblance of normal family life for the remaining years of their lives. In the greater scheme of things the data security issues are trivial.

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